90 LXXV. RUBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Mussenda. 
Van. 4. glabrata; branches glabrous or with scattered spreading hairs, leaves all 
petioled broadly or narrowly elliptie glabrous or sparingly hairy beneath or on both 
surfaces, stipules sometimes very narrow, cymes open with long bracts and calyx- 
teeth as in var. 3, corolla-tube silky, lobes apiculate as in var. 3.— Wall, Cat, 6250 
A. C. G., all for the most part; Wight Cat. 1269, 1270 (a form with lanceolate white 
calycine leaf)—The common Western Peninsula form. Fruit hairy in a specimen 
from Stocks, 
Var. 5. grandifolia; branches with spreading hairs, leaves all petioled 6-12 in. 
often almost as broad, elliptic abruptly acuminate membranous glabrous above acute 
at both ends more or less pubescent on the nerves beneath, stipules broad 2-fid, 
cymes large contracted, bracts and calyx-teeth lanceolate broader than in the southern 
forms, flowers larger, buds with 5 points, corolla-limb broad acuminate.— Nipal, 
Wall. Cat. 6250 E.; Sikkim, alt. 2-6000 ft., J. D. H., Treutler; Assam, Jenkins, 
Griffith; Khasia Mts., 2.5000 ft., J. D. H. 4 T. T. ?M. macrophylla, Kurz For. Fl. 
ii. 57, not of Wallich.—This approaches forms of M. Bosburghii, but has a much 
larger flower and broader bracts and calyx-teeth, which latter are deciduous, Large 
calycine white leaf sometimes 6 by 4 in. 
Var. 6, hirsutissima; branches cymes petioles and leaves on both surfaces hirsute 
with often shaggy hairs, leaves subsessile 2-3 rarely 4 in. broadly ovate-elliptie 
rarely elliptic-lanceolate, stipules short, cymes shortly stoutly peduncled contracted 
few-flowered, bracts and calyx-lobes 4-1 in. broadly lanceolate, flowers very large, co- 
rolla hirsute often 1} in. long and 1 in. across the lobes, tube slender or very broad 
sometimes l in, diam. at the base and slightly contracted above it, lobes broad 
apiculate, berry large globose, leafy calyx-lobe often absent cordate.—M. frondosa, 
Wall. Cat. 6250 H. (from Herb. Heyne); var. B. Wight Cat. 1268. M. tomentosa, 
Wight Cat. 1271 (not of Wallich). M. villosa, Schlecht. in PI Hohenack. N. 1382, 
Nilgherry, Pulney, Shevaroy, and Shevaghery hills, Wight; Conean, alt. 6-8000 ft., 
C. B. Clarke, who remarks that the broader flowers are injured by insects, and have 
the corolla-tube within glabrous below the throat and larger disk-glands; a similar 
state is also recorded from J ava.— Probably a distinct species, but it appears to pass 
into forms of frondosa. 
10. M. variolosa, Wall. Cat. 6250; scandent, hispid with spreading 
rufous hairs, leaves subsessile lower petioled ovate or oblong or obovate-oblong 
acuminate, stipules small, cymes small 2-3-chotomous, calyx-teeth equalling 
the ovary or shorter deciduous in fruit, corolla-tube slender glabrate or MEE 
lobes small broad not pointed, berries broadly obovoid. G. Don Gen. Syst, iii. 
490; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 56. 
TENASSERIM, Prov, and Ammacaw, common, Wallich, Helfer, &c. (Kew Distrib, 
2777.) 
Apparently a slender climbing species. Leaves membranous hairy on both sur- 
faces or glabrate above, upper sessile 3—4 by 11-2 in., lower often more elongate and 
narrowed into a slender petiole, rarely all petioled. Cymes generally rather open 
with spreading branches and pedicelled flowers, sometimes dense. Flowers small for 
the genus. Calyz-teeth very variable, sometimes elongate after flowering ; leafy white 
one small 2 in. long, orbicular or broadly elli ptie, obtuse, glabrous or puberulous, 
Berries glabrous, small, sometimes covered with broad pale warts, 
ll. M. glabra, Vahl Symb. iii. 38; a rambling or climbing almost 
labrous shrub, leaves shortly petioled elliptic or oblong acuminate, nerves 
neath often hairy, stipules small simple or 2-fid, cymes glabrous or sparsely 
appressed-hairy branched, bracts and calyx-teeth subulate or lanceolate shorter 
or longer (never twice as long) as the ovary early deciduous after flowering, 
corolla-tube 1 in. very slender glabrous or with appressed hairs, lobes very short 
acute, berries globose glabrous. DC. Prodr. iv. 570; Wall. Cat. 6251; Kurz 
For, Fl, ii. 56, M. penangensis, Mig. Fl, Ind. Bat. à. 914. M. frondosa, 
Wall. Cat. 6250, B. and E. both in part. 
