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MUSSAENDA frondosa. 
Burmann’s Mussenda. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Rusiace®. Jussieu gen. 196. Div. IV. Fructus monocar- 
pus bilocularis polyspermus. Stam. 5. Fol. opposita, caulis sæpè fru- 
tescens. 
MUSS/ENDA. Cal. 5-fidus laciniis linearibus. Cor. infundibuliformis, 
tubo longo vix suprà dilatato, limbo plano 5-partito. Anth. oblonge intra 
tubum subsessiles, non exserte. Caps. ovata membranacea, apice nuda aut 
coronata, 2-locularis polysperma, receptaculo seminifero elevato loculos : 
bipartiente; sem. ideo quadrifariàm disposita, numerosa minutissima. frutices 
plerique hirsuti: flores sep corymbosi, terminales, bracteati; corolla sepe 
extus hirsuta. Hie sola sistenda MUsSJENDA frondosa Lin. cujus insuper 
lacinia una calycina persistens ceteris deciduis, producta in folium amplum 
petiolatum caulinis conforme sed discolor et 5-7-nerve. Juss. loc. cit. 200. 
M. frondosa, ramis foliisque villosis, tubo corolla paulo longiore laciniis 
calycinis. Dryander in MSS. biblioth. banks. 
Musswnda frondosa. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1. 251. Vahl symb. 3. 37. Willd. 
sp. pl. 1. 997. Roxburgh MSS. 
Mussenda pubescens. Curtis's magaz. 2099; (non Dryandri Hort. Kew.) 
Musseenda zeylanica, flore rubro, tructü oblongo, folio ex florum thyrso pro- 
deunte albo. Burm. zeyl. 165. t. 16. 
Frutex altiusculus, villosissimus, ramis teretibus erectis canis remote 
foliosis. Fol. opposita, ovali-lanceolata acuminata, infrà densius villosa ; 
petiolo brevi hirsuto, stipulà herbaceá erectá hirsutá utrinque stipato. Cyma 
terminales, subtrichotome, foliolorum pare subtense: peduncuh vix longiores 
petiolis, teretes, villosi, pluriflori; pedicelli robusti brevissimi v. submullı 
uniflori: bractex stipulis similes, calyci appresse. Germ. subrotundum 
hirsutum, disco glanduloso glabro wmbilicato coronatum. Cal. marginis 
germinis continuus, campanulato-patens; foliola herbacea distincto-distantia, 
subulata hirsuta, vir duplo breviora tubo corolle, decidua, preter unum in 
lore uno cymularum aliquarum primariarum cujusque cyme in folium candi- 
dum petiolatum subviridi-nervosum villosum formá aliorum foliorum at majus 
et nervis 3-5 preditum procrescens. Cor. flava erecta extüs villosa ; faux paulo 
amplior tubo, intüs albo-barbata; limbi lacinie convexissime. Anthere 
lineares, fauce demerse. 
Upon referring to Hermann’s Herbarium, the source of 
Mussanpa frondosa, the samples representing it will be 
found to belong in reality to two species, the present, and 
that which has been proposed by Mr. Dryander in the last 
edition of the Hortus Kewensis, under the name of pu- 
bescens, differing from the one before us in many essential 
points, and remarkably in having the tube of the corolla 
