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MUSSAENDA macrophylla. 
The large-leaved Mussenda. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CINCHONACE =. (CINcHONADSs, Vegetable Kingdom, p. 761.) 
MUSSZENDA, Linn.— Supra, vol. vi. fol. 517. 
Sect. BELILLA, DC. 
One lobe of the calyx extended into a large stalked leaf with notted veins 
and the appearance of a bract. 
M. macrophylla (Wallich in Roxb. Fl. Ind. 2. p. 228); ramulis sericeo- 
pilosis, foliis ovatis acuminatis pubescentibus, stipulis lato-ovatis bifidis 
apice acuminatis recurvis, corymbis terminalibus trichotomis pilosissimis 
brevé pedunculatis, calycis laciniis foliaceis latis oblongo-lanceolatis, 
bracteis amplis pilosissimis.— DC. Prodr. iv. 371. 
Dr. Wallich gives the following account of this plant :— 
** [ have found this noble species on the mountains of Chun- 
dragiri and Nagarjoon in Nipal, in blossom during the rainy 
season, in fruit during the winter.” 
** A large spreading shrub, generally erect, though some- 
times, when growing in a very rich soil, tending to ramble. 
Branches 4-cornered, brown; while young almost round, 
densely beset with soft and silky, long and spreading grayish 
hairs. Leaves broad-ovate, from 8 to 10 inches long, spread- 
ing, acuminate, with entire and even margins; the upper- 
most roundish and sub-retuse at the base, and almost sessile, 
the rest acute, pubescent, slightly rugose, of a dark green 
colour above, pale, villous underneath, with elevated rib, and 
parallel, oblique, approximate nerves, which unite in sub- 
marginal arches. Petiols thick, channelled, sub-marginate, 
half an inch long.—Stipules large, ovate, tapering acute or 
bifid, with recurved apices, nearly twice as long as the petiols, 
hairy within the base ; there are a number of small, subulate, 
black glands loosely attached to the inner surface. Corymb 
terminal, spreading, many flowered, shorter than the upper- 
May, 1846. K 
