Mussenda. | LXXV. RUBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 87 
** Flowers in cymes; calyx-teeth persistent till the fruit is ripe. 
2. M. Roxburghii, Hook. f.; erect, stem hairy above, leaves short- 
petioled oblong-lanceolate glabrous above, stipules triangular-lanceolate, cymes 
very dense many-flowered crinite from the filiform hairy calyx-teeth, corolla 
"T tube narrow, lobes very small with filiform tips, berries glabrous, crowned 
with the calyx-lobes. M. corymbosa, Wall. Cat. 6252 A. B. in part, C. D. tn 
part. ? M. corymbosa, Kurz For. Fi. ii. 58. ? M. pubescens, Wall. Cat. 6257 
B. M. frondosa, Wall. Cat. 6250 E.? and C. in part. Musseenda, No. 18 and 
19, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. $ T. 
TnorrcAnL Hrwarava; Nipal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 1-4000 ft., Herb. Griff. (Kew 
Distrib. 2780), J. D. H., &c. Kuasta Mrs., Gomez, Ee: alt. 39-4000 fJ D Hd 
F5 T. Cacuan, Keenan.  CurrrAaoxa, J. D. H. 4 T. T. ? ARRACAN and TENASSERIM, 
ure. 
This is the M. corymbosa of the Calcutta Gardens, and of Roxburgh, according to 
Wallich, but is certainly not the plant described under that name by Roxburgh in the 
Flora Indica, which has “ ovate-lanceolate bracts,” and ovate pointed lobes of the 
corolla, which are zz convex and villous above,” and which is stated to be a native of 
Ceylon and Malabar. There is, however, on one of Wallich’s sheets of this plant a 
single specimen of a plant, also from the Calcutta Gardens, which agrees better with 
Roxburgh’s description, having large convex pubescent corolla-lobes, and which prob- 
ably does not differ from the M. frondosa of Malabar and Ceylon. M. Roxburghii is 
best known by its dense cyme, long tube and small limb of the corolla, with a filiform 
tip; the leaves are always glabrous above, and the fruit globose and glabrous; the 
large white calycine leaf is always glabrous. Wallich’s 6257 B, a Calcutta Garden 
plant, is certainly not pubescens, and has the filiform corolla-lobes of M. Roxburghii, 
but differs in the branches clothed with spreading hairs. There are two varieties of 
M. Roxburghit. 
Var. 1; branches nearly glabrous, leaves oblong-lanceolate 4-6 by 2 in., and 
bracts and flowers silky.—Assam, Silhet, Cachar, Chittagong. 
Var. 2; branches more or less villous above, leaves longer petioled broader and 
more membranous elliptic 6-12 in., bracts and flowers villous.—Nipal, Sikkim, Khasia 
Mts., alt. 3-4000 ft. 
3. M. incana, Wall. in Roxb, Fl. Ind. ed. Wall. § Carey, ii. 229; Cat. 
5256; stem erect subsimple softly tomentose or villous as are the leaves beneath 
and cymes, leaves shortly petioled ovate subacute hairy above white beneath, 
calyx-teeth filiform twice as long as the ovary, corolla silky, lobes ovate acumi- 
nate, berry globose with subpersistent calyx-teeth. DC. Prodr. iv. 871. M. 
pubescens, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 6257. 
Troricar Himaraya; Nipal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 2-4000 ft., Herb. Griffith (Kew 
Distrib. 2781, 2782), J. D. H. Assam; Sukanugur and Goalpara, Hamilton, Kuasta 
Mrs., alt. 2000 ft., Griffith, J. D. H.g T. T. 
Stem erect, simple and herbaceous or branched, 2-3 ft., covered with soft shining 
appressed hairs. Leaves 5-6 in., stiff, rounded or acute at the base, nerves many and 
strong; stipules tapering from a broad base, bifid. Cymes small, subsessile. Leafy 
white calyz-lobe pubescent. Corolla $ in. long; tube slender. Berries at first hairy, 
then glabrous; areola small. 
4. M. Keenani, Hook. f.; subherbaceous, very robust, leaves petioled 
broadly "€ o aeuminate coriaceous densely tomentose beneath, nerves very 
strong, stipules very broadly ovate acuminate, cymes dense-flowered glabrous or 
pilose crinite with the filiform calyx-teeth, corolla glabrous, tube slender, lobes 
small ovate-lanceolate acuminate. 
CacHAR ; on the margins of flats, &c., Keenan. 
A remarkable plant, described by its finder as herbaceous, large and robust in all 
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