forming one of the most striking objects on the outskirts of 
forests. Most of the wild specimens are of more compact 
habit than the plant figured, and have smaller leaves 
on quite short stalks, and the larger calyx-leaves are 
even more brilliantly coloured, due doubtless to greater 
light. 
* Missuada comprises about fifty species which inhabit 
tropical Asia, Africa and Polynesia, but few of them are in 
cultivation. The best known is M. frondosa, L., figured in 
the Magazine (t. 2099), from a weakly plant, under the 
name of M. pubescens. The only other one figured in this 
publication is J. luteola, Del. (t. 5573), a very pretty 
species from the upper Nile region. 
Not all of the species of Mussaenda have a leaf-like, 
coloured calyx-lobe, and usually only one flower in each 
partial cyme of an inflorescence possesses this appendage 5 
but this characteristic is shared by several other genera 
belonging to different tribes of the Rubiaceae. They 
are : Calycophyllum, Monadelphantha, Capirona, Schizocalyz, 
Pinkneya, Pogonopus (Howardia caracasana, Wedd., B. M. 
t. 5110), Pallasia and Warscewiczia; all American. 
Description.—Shrub, either suberect or climbing on trees 
to a height of forty feet or more. Branches, leaves and 
flowers more or less clothed with soft hairs. Leaves thin, 
very variable in outline, from lanceolate to nearly orbicular 
and with the stalk sometimes as much as 6 or 7 in. long, 
but usually smaller, rounded, cordate or wedge-shaped at 
the base, gradually tapering or abruptly acuminate at the 
tip, margin entire, minutely fringed, both surfaces slightly 
airy; primary veins conspicuous, often coloured red ; 
stipules bifid or trifid, about 1 in. long. Flowers about 
1f in. across, in dense terminal cymes, some sessile, others 
shortly stalked, clothed with long spreading crimson hairs 
on the outside, yellow within changing to red, crimson in 
the centre, Calyz-lobes 5, all lanceolate, 1-4 in. long, 
acute, or one leaf-like oval (variable in wild specimens), 
sometimes as much as 5 in. long by 4 in. broad, brilliant 
crimson, longitudinally 5- or 7-nerved, slightly hairy. 
Corolla salver-shaped, bearded in the throat. Stamens 5, 
included. Ovary 2-celled ; cells many-seeded; style in- 
cluded.— W. Borrrye Hemstey. 
