REES A USt i et 
Musscenda. | LXXY, RUBIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 89 
*** Flowers in cymes, calyx-teeth deciduous almost immediately after flowering. 
o M. macrophylla, Wall. in Roxb. FI. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. ii. 228; 
erect or subscandent, branches leaves beneath and cymes hirsute or villous, leaves 
short-petioled broadly elliptic acute, bracts and. calyx-lobes foliaceous oblanceo- 
late zem caducous, corolla lobes orbicular apiculate, berries hairy. Wall, Pl. 
As, Rar. ii. 77, t. 180; Cat. 6295; Bot. Reg. xxxii. t. 24; DC. Prodr. iv. 970. 
M. hispida, Don Prodr. 199; DC. l.c. M. calycina, Wall. Cat. 6253; Kurz 
For. Fi. ii. 58. M. frondosa, Wall. Cat. 6250 A. 
Trovicat Himaraya; Nipal, Wallich. Kmasr Mrs., alt. 1-4000 ft., J. D. H. d 
T. T., C. B. Clarke. Preu and ANDAMAN and Nicopar Istanps, Kurz. MALAY 
PrxisvLA, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 8357/2 and ? 941).—Distris. Ava, Philippine 
islands. 
Usually a subscandent shrub; branches stout; hairs rufous when dry. Leaves 
4-10 by 2-34 in. slightly hairy above; stipules acute or 2-fid, broad, recurved. 
Cymes short-peduncled, often 3-chotomous ; flowers crowded; bracts large, laciniate. 
Calyzx-lobes 3 in., nerves parallel, leafy white lobe 2-5 in. Corolla 1 in., tube hir- 
sute, lobes orange, throat villous. Berries broadly ellipsoid, j in. long; areole very 
broad.— Kurz distinguishes M. calycina as a scandent shrub with lanceolate calyx- 
teeth } in. long, and corolia-lobes } as long as the corolla-tube, from M. macrophylla, 
which is a large shrub, or small tree, with calyx-teeth —} in. and corolla-lobes nearly 
4 as long es the corolla-tube; but his macrophylla is not the Wallichian plant of that 
name, and is, I think, M. frondosa, var. 5. 
op. frondosa, Linn.; DC. Prodr. iv. 370; glabrate tomentose or 
hirsute, leaves sessile or petioled elliptic oblong or ovate acuminate, stipules long 
or short often 2-fid, cymes contracted or open softly silkily tomentose, racts and 
caducous calyx-lobes elongate-lanceolate much longer than the ovary, corolla 
pubescent silky or hirsute, lobes broadly ovate acute or acuminate, berries ob- 
ovoid glabrous, areole broad. Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 557 ; Wall. Cat. 6250 in part; 
Wight Ill. t. 124; Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 111; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anat, Gen. 
xvi.f.3. M. flavescens and M. Dorinia, Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 203. 
M. formosa, Linn. Mant. 338. M. villosa, Wall. Cat. 6254. ? M. corymbosa, 
E Fi. x i. 556. M. zeylanica, Burm. Fl. Zeyl: 165, t. 76.—Rheede Hort. 
al. ii. t. 18. 
Tnorrcar Hiwaraya, from Nipal eastward ; Assam, KHASIA Mrs., alt. 1-4000 ft. ; 
ANDAMAN Istanps, Kurz. Western PENINSULA, from the Concan southwards.— 
Dısrrır. Malay Islands. i 
It is dificult to limit this species, which passes into M. glabra on the one hand, 
and almost into M. macrophylla on the other; and quite impossible to define its varie- 
ties, whieh may be approximately diagnosed as follows. 
Van. 1. zeylanica; branches leaves on both surfaces especially beneath and eymes 
velvety, leaves sessile or shortly petioled 3-6 in. abruptly acuminate, base acute 
rarely rounded, stipules short and broad, cymes tomentose, bracteoles and calyx-lobes 
3-2 in. lanceolate not twice the length of the ovary, white leafy lobe orbicular elliptic 
or cordate pubescent, corolla-tube densely tomentose, limb quite obtuse in bud, lobes 
short broad subaeute.— Ceylon only.—I have not seen the berries, which Vahl (under 
M. glabra) states to be hairy. 
Var. 2. ingrata; branches leaves and cymes velvety, very like those of var. 1, 
stipules short and broad, cymes contracted crinite from the long lanceolate sub- 
setaceous bracts and calycine lobes which are 3-5 in. long, greatly exceeding the 
ovary, corolla as in var. ] but limb with 5 points in bud.— Wali. Cat. 6250 F.; Wight 
‘Cat. 1267. M. ingrata, Wall.? : 
Var. 3. laxa; branches stipules and cymes finely densely tomentose, leaves all 
petioled broadly elliptic rounded at the base with fine short appressed hairs, stipules 
‘short 2-fid, cymes very open lax-flowered, bracteoles and calyx-teeth as in var. 2 but 
spreading, corolla as in var. 2.—Quillon, Wight. 
