374 
Morinda geminata, DC. Prodr. iv. (1830), p. 447; [M. citrifolia, 
Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 191, partly, non Linn.; 
Psychotria chrysorhiza, Schum. & Thonn. Pl. + p. 111? 
Morinda meres Desf. Cat. Hort. Par. ed. 3, p. 404; M. 
chrysorhiza, DC. Prodr. iv. p. 450?; M. anne, G. Don, 
Syst. Veg. iii. (1834) p. 545]. 
A tree with conspicuously quadrangular € and very 
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stout peduncles; flowers white; distinct from e Indian 
M. citrifolia, L., with which it has been confused. 
Vernac. names.—N’Salagui (Sierra Leone, Lane le); 
Bungbo or Mene (Sierra Leone, Scott Elliot) ; Ojuologbo rre 
Leone, Imp. Inst. No. 8, 1906, Herb. Kew). — Brimstone Tree of 
Sierra Leone (Barter). 
Sierra Leone—the only region in West Africa where this species 
is known to occur, but it is included here because of the pre- 
viously mistaken association with M. citrifolia, of the Flora of 
"Tropical Africa. 
A native medicinal plant of Sierra Leone (Imp. Inst. l.c.), the 
leaf forms a very good purge (Scott Elliot, No. 5278, Herb. Kew), 
and the roots are cut up and mixed with indigo plant to bring out 
the colour, Sierra Leone (Lane-Poole, No. 152, Herb. Kew 
The wood is A as flooring, said to resist insects, Sierra Teona 
(Barter, Herb. or house work and ordinary purposes, 
Sierra Leone (Scott ; Klliot, Col. Rep. Misc. No. 3, 1893, p. 35, 
*' Brimstone,” M. citrifolia). 
rinda longiflora, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. p. 545; = in 
Oliv, Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 192, partly]. 
A climbing free-flowering shrub up to 10 ft. high; readily dis- 
‘tinguished from the other African species by the terminal paired 
peduncles supporting the flowers; corollas slender and curved in 
‘bud. Flowers fragrant. Calyx green. Corolla white (Johnson) 
or copper-coloured (Barter). 
Vernac. names.—Leverek beni and Benti (Sierra Leone, Lane 
Poole). 
Occurs from Sierra Leone to the Cameroons and in the island of 
Fernando Po; has been collected in the Eket district, Southern 
Provinces, by Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Talbot (No. 3255). 
Morinda lucida, Benth. in Hook. Niger Flora, p. 406. 
[M. citrifolia, Hiern in Oliv. FI. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 191, partly, 
non on. M. citrifolia, var. lucida, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pi. W elw 
ii. p 
A large straight-boled tree, Uwet (MacLeod), 30-40 ft. high, 
Cross mo (Holland), 15-20 ft. high, KA 1-3 ft. in diameter, 
-flowers abundant, white, fragrant, o Alto (Hiern, Cat. 
Welw. Afr. PL ii. p. 492), daid. ien the ud Ege 
species “he the terete branchlets and the small flowering and 
fruiting heads supported on extremely slender peduncles; it is 
