Eutidea.] lxx. RUBiACEiE (hiern). 191 



pairs, slender, inconspicuous ; petiole |-—J in. long ; stipules solitary, 

 entire, ap iculate from a subtruncate base, y^p- ^ in. long. Flowers 

 tetramerous, ^ in. long (or rather more) when expanded, glabrous, 

 slender, on very short glabrate pedicels, numerous, in dense terminal 

 somewhat puberulous corymbs of about 2 in. diameter ; bi-acteoles 

 small, puberulous, falling short of the calyx. Calyx ^^ in. long ; limb 

 half-cleft ; lobes ovate. Corolla white with herbaceous apex (Rev. 

 W. C. Thomson mss.), lobes oval, J in. long. Style glabrous, exserted 

 by ^ in. ; stigma clavate- egg-shaped. 



Upper Guinea. Old Calabar, Rev, W. C. Thomson ! 



10. Br. liiscescens, Hiern. Hispidulous. Branches terete. 

 Leaves ovate- elliptical, subacurainate, narrowed or rounded at the 

 base, chartaceous, turning blackish in the dry state, 1-|— 3 by f-l^ in. ; 

 lateral veins about 5-6 pairs, rather slender ; petiole ^— | in. ; stipules 

 solitary, entire subulate, prolonged from a short broad base, ^—^ in. 

 long. Flowers tetramerous, ^-| in. long when expanded, on short 

 hispidulous pedicels, in terminal subsessile dense corymbs of about 

 3 in. diameter ; bracteoles narrow, falling short of the calyx-limb, his- 

 pidulous. Calyx yV i°- ^ong, hispidulous, limb half-cleft ; lobes 4, 

 ovate. Corolla glabrous throughout ; lobes 4, broadly oval, ^ in. 

 long. Style glabrous, exserted by ^— yV in. ; stigma clavate-ovoid. 

 Mozamb. Blstr. Moramballa, at 2000 feet alt., Kirk / 



60. MORINDA, Vaill. ; Benth. efc Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. p. 117. 



Calyx- tubes campanulate, connate at the base, confluent in fruit ; 

 limb truncate or nearly so, persistent, not accrescent. Corolla salver- 

 shaped, coriaceous ; tube rather slender ; throat glabrous or somewhat 

 bearded ; lobes 5-6, valvate in the bud. Stamens 5-6, inserted at the 

 throat of the corolla, glabrous, partly exserted ; anthers linear, fixed at 

 the back near the middle ; filaments short. Disk fleshy, cushion- 

 shaped, glabrous. Ovary usually 4-celled, sometimes imperfectly so ; 

 style included or exserted, glabrous or pubescent, bifid ; ovules solitary, 

 ascending from the base of the septa, anatropous or amphitropous. 

 Fruit a syncarpium, succulent ; seeds obovoid or reniform or folded on 

 itself; testa membranous; albumen fleshy; embryo often somewhat 

 curved, radicle inferior. — Trees or shrubs, sometimes scandent, gla- 

 brous or nearly so, with oval shortly petiolate leaves, intrapetiolar 

 deciduous stipules connate at the base, and white or yellowish flowers 

 sessile in pedunculate ebracteolate heads. 



A considerable genus spread over the tropics of the world. 



Peduncles axillary and terminal, often leaf-opposed. Flowers 



mostly pentamerous 1. M. citrifolia. 



Peduncles terminal or terminating short lateral branches, 



not leaf-opposed. Flowers hexamerous 2. M. longiflora. 



1. K. Citrifolia, Linn. Sp. PL 176 (1753). A glabrous (or 

 nearly glabrous) tree, sometimes of immense size. Branches quadran- 



