68. RUBIACKJ3 : MUSS.ENDE.E. 379 



(Fordl); THoxgkonq (Champion ] Wright] Wilfordl VrquhartY). 

 Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



[Musseenda chinensis, Lour. (Fl. Cochinch. p. 152 ; DC. Prodr. 

 iv. p. 373), is evidently not a species of this genus, but it has not 

 been identified.] 



2. Musssenda frondosa, Linn. Sp. PL ed. 1, p. 177 ; DC. 

 Prodr. iv. p. 370; Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. p. 89. 



Kwangtung : "West river {Ford !) ; Hainan (Swinhoe !). Mus. 

 Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Throughout tropical India and the Malay archipelago. 



3. Musssenda glabra, Hook, et Am. Pot. Beech. Toy. p. 264, 

 non Vahl. 



Formosa: north-west (Perry !), Tainsui (Oldham, 214, 230) ; 

 Lttchu Archipelago (Beechey !). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



We have not given this a new name because the material is 

 hardly sufficient for satisfactory description iu this difficult genus ; 

 and it is not quite beyond doubt that the Formosa and Luchu 

 specimens belong to the same species. 



4. Mussaenda hirsutnla, Miq. in Joum. de Bot. Ueerl. i. 

 p. 109. 



Kwangtung : Luheang (Krone ex JHfiquel). 



Miquel adduces characters in which be states this differs from 

 M. frondosa, pubescens, and erosa ; yet it is probably a variety of 

 one of them, as they are very variable. 



5. Mussaenda pubescens, Ait. f. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, i. p. 372 ; 

 DC. Prodr. iv. p. 371 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 153 ; Henriq. in 

 Bol. Soc. Brot. iii. p. 148. 



CniNA: without locality (Fortune, 80!); Formosa: south- 

 west (Swinhoe]); Hupeh : Ichang, Nanto and neighbourhood 

 (A. Henry, 2703, 3118 !) ; Szechuen : Omei, 3500 feet ( Faber, 

 612!), Min river (Faber, 263 !) ; Kwangtung: Macao (Silva ex 

 Henriqucs) ; Hongkong (Champion ! Hinds] Wriglrf] WilfordT); 

 Hainan : Hoihow (Hancock !). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



1. Adenosacme longifolia, Wall. Cat. 6280; Kurz, For. Fl 

 Burm. ii. p. 160 ; Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. p. 95, var. sinensis, 

 Hemsl. ; fere glabra, foliis subtus pallidis. 



