88 LXXV. RUPIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Musscenda. 
its parts, and flowering later than the other Cachar species. It may be a form of M. 
incana or Roxburghii, but if so it is a remarkable one.— Stem as thick as the little 
finger, pubescent above. Leaves 8-12 by 4-6 in., thick and leathery, quite glabrous 
above, abruptly acuminate; petiole 3-2 in., very robust; stipules 4-4 by } in, 
leathery, hairy, erect or recurved. Cymces 2-3 in. diam., almost capitate, on stout 
peduncles. Calya-teeth 3 in. Corolla nearly 1 in. long. Buds obtuse (without subu- 
late points). 
9. M. tomentosa, Wight in Wall. Cat. 6265; erect, shrubby, branches 
and leaves on both surfaces densely clothed with velvety tomentum, leaves all 
petioled ovate-elliptie or ovate-lanceolate acute or obtuse white beneath, stipules 
narrow 2-fid, cymes sessile contracted, bracts and calyx-teeth elongate subulate 
twice as long as the ovary, corolla velvety, tube 1 in., limb 11 in. diam., lobes 
broad acute, berry puberulous crowned with the long calyx-teeth. J. & A. 
Prodr. 394 ? 
Carnatic; Ginger Hills, amongst masses of rock in shade, Herb. Wight. 
Lraves 3-5 in., narrowed into the petiole. Cymes with no leafy white calyx-lobes, 
—A very distinct species, badly described by Wight and Arnott as hirsutely villous, 
the pubescence being singularly soft, velvety and close, more so than in any other 
species. It resembles in some respects var. 2 of Af. frondosa, but is distinguished by 
the dense soft pubescence, the much larger flowers, and persistent calyx-tecth. It is 
not the M. tomentosa of Wight's own Herbarium, No, 1271, which is var 7 of M. 
J'rondosa, and from which possibly the description in the Prodromus is taken; there 
is, however, a specimen of this in Wight's own Herbarium, marked in mss. 1271 A. 
6. M. Wallichii, G. Don Gen. Syst. ii. 490; glabrous, leaves elliptic 
ovate or lanceolate acuminate nerves beneath pubescent, stipules long gradually 
narrowed from the base entire or 2-fid, cymes glabrous, bracts subulate, calyx- 
‘teeth half as long as the elongate ovary or longer, corolla quite glabrous, tube 
slender, lobes narrow finely acuminate, berries subglobose with persistent calyx- 
teeth. M. longifolia, Wall. Cat. 6258. M. glabra, Wall. Cat. 6251 A. in part. 
M. Jelinckii, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1876, ii. 195. 
Raxaoox, Wallich, McLelland ; and Tenxasserm, at Tavoy, Gomez. Great Nico- 
BAR ISLAND; Jelinck. 
Branches robust. Leaves in small specimens 4-5 by 2 in., elliptic, sometimes 
broadly, in larger ones much longer, 12 by 4} in., usually abruptly or caudately acu- 
minate, rather membranous, quite glabrous above; stipules narrow, 3-3 in., persistent, 
erect. Cymes lax-flowered, quite glabrous, as are the white calycine leaves. Corolla- 
tube 1 in.; lobes A in., glabrous.— Very variable in foliage, and sometimes approaehing 
M. glabra, but the cymes are always glabrous and the calyx-teeth persistent. 
Kurz's Nicobar specimen (M. Jelinckii) has very small calyx-teeth and obliquely ob- 
lanceolate very membranous leaves, with slender petioles, very like those of M. 
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Griffithii, which differs in the silky corolla. 
7. M. Grifüthii, Wight mss. in Herb.; branches with stiff appressed 
hairs, leaves petioled 12 by 3 in. obliquely oblanceolate finely acuminate very 
‘membranous, midrib and very slender nerves beneath hairy, petiole slender 1-2 
in., stipules 2-fid villous, cymes sessile with several short hispid dense-flowered 
branches crinite with the filiform bracts and calyx-teeth which latter are twice 
as long as the ovary and persistent in the young fruit, corolla 1 in., tube 
slender silky, lobes narrow acuminate, berries ovoid glabrous, 
TENASSERIN; Mergui, Griffith. 
The only specimen I have seen is in Wight's Herbarium, and the leaves entirely 
resemble those of M. Jelinckii, but the corolla is densely silky, and the calyx-teeth 
very long, as in M. Roxburghii and in pavettefolia, which has a glabrous corolla. 
The white calyeine leaves are 2-3 in. long, ovate-lanceolate with very long points. 
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