66 LXX. RUBIACEM (HIERN). { Musscenda. 
above ; ovules very numerous, inserted on the fleshy placentas. Fruit 
usually fleshy and indehiscent, rarely loculicidally dehiscent and dry, 
often obtusely ribbed, crowned by the calyx-lobes or their remains, 
2-celled ; seeds very numerous, usually minute.—Climbing or erect 
shrubs, with opposite rather thin leaves; interpetiolar, solitary or 
geminate, usually deciduous stipules; cymose terminal, mostly yellow 
flowers, and deciduous bracts and bracteoles,. 
A considerable genus, occurring also in Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands, 
and in the hotter parts of Asia and the Indian Archipelago. 
Fruit indehiscent, 4-1} in. long. Leaves mostly exceeding 3 in. 
Calyx-lobes, at least 4 of them, short, rounded or apiculate or deltoid, not subulate 
nor linear. 
Inflorescence dense, 
Corvlla clothed with deflexed hairs. Lateral veins of 
the leaves 10-14 on each side of the midrib . . 1. M. Afeelii. 
Corolla puberulous outside. Lateral veins of the leaves 
6 -7 on each side of the midrib soe ee 
Inflorescence rather lax. Corolla glabrous outside. Lateral 
veins 4 on each side of the midrib of the leaves . . 3. M. polita. 
Calyx-lobes, or at least 4 of them, long, linear or subulate. 
Stipules ovate lanceolate or subulate, % in. long or less. 
Branchlets glabrate or pubescent or hispid with defiexed 
airs. 
Corolla glabrous or nearly so outside. 
Corolla-tube slender, straight; lobes acuminate. 
Fruitoblong . . . . 1... 2 eee 4 
Corolla-tube funnel-shaped above, often curved ; 
lobes not acuminate. Fruit subglobose or 
ellipsoidal . . ...... +... & M. arcuata. 
Corolla hispid or hirsute outside. 
One calyx-lobe often produced into a large dilated 
white or coloured lamina. 
Enlarged calyx-lobe white; the other lobes fili- 
form orsubulate. . . 2. 2... 1. 
Enlarged calyx-lobe bright red; the other lobes 
lanceolate. . 2. . 2 1. ww ww ee 7. MM. erythrophylla. 
Calyx-lobes subequal, or at least uncoloured. . . 8. M. elegans. 
2. M. Isertiana. 
M. stenocarpa. 
6. M. tenuiflora. 
Branchlets hispid with hairs directed upwards. . . . 9. M.? heinsioides. 
Stipules broadly ovate, about #in.long . . . . . . 10. M.? platyphylla. 
Calyx-lobes, or at least 4 of them, long, elliptical, much 
_ acuminate soe ee ee ew ee ew ww ee LM. grandiflora. 
Fruit loculicidally dehiscent, } in. long. Leaves not exceeding 
3inchesinlength. . .... . » » » « 12, M. luteola, 
1. M. Afzelii, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. p. 490, (1834). A shrab 
of 4—6 ft., perhaps subscandent. Branches terete tawny-subtomen- 
tose at the extremities. Leaves oval, shortly and abruptly acu- 
minate, rounded or obtuse at the base, paler beneath, shortly sca- 
brid-hispid on both sides, 3-6 by 14-3 in., or the upper ones rather 
smaller ; lateral veins 10-14 on each side of the midrib; tertiary veins 
oblique; stipules ovate, often bifid; petiole ¥,-1 in. Flowers yellow, 
#1 im. long, tawny-tomentose outside, subsessile, in dense pedunculate 
terminal and lateral cymes. Calyx hemispherical and !—} in. diameter 
in flower ; lobes short, rounded or apiculate, persistent, subequal or one 
produced into a white or yellowish subrotund acuminate hispidulous 
