Mussenda. | LXXV. RUBIACE®. (J. D. Hooker.) 91 
NipAL and Sixxm HrMALAYA, alt. 1-5000 ft. ; Assam, Kuasia MTs., alt. 0-4000 ft. ; 
Cacnar, CHITTAGONG, Tenasserim (Helfer, Kew Distrib. 2778; Griffith, 2775, 211€); 
SixcAPonR; Maracca (Maingay, Kew Distrib. 834; Griffith, 2779) and PENANG.— 
Disrurs. Malay Islands. 
The very glabrous habit, rather coriaceous leaves, smaller calyx-teeth, long slender 
hairy (rarely glabrate) corolla-tube, and small broad acute corolla-lobes, distinguish 
this from its allies, ‘The leaves do not exceed 5 inches in length; the calycine white 
leaf is never more than 3 in. long, very broad obtuse and glabrous ; the calyx-teeth 
vary from quite minute to almost twice as long as the ovary; the berries are some- 
times mottled as in M. variolosa. 
VaR.1; leaves narrowed at the base glabrous or sparsely pubescent beneath, 
calyx-teeth subulate about equalling the ovary.—From Sikkim and Bhotan to 
Chittagong. 
Van. 2; leaves narrowed at tho base glabrous or softly pubescent beneath, 
calyx-teeth lanceolate longer than the ovary.—Malacca and Singapore. 
Var. 3; leaves acute or rounded at the base quite glabrous, calyx-teeth equalling 
or shorter than the ovary.—Tenasserim (fruit not seen). 
Var. 4; leaves usually obtuse or rounded at the base setulose on the midrib 
above. M. setulosa, Klotzsch in Monatsb, Berlin. Akad. 1853, 510.—Pegu to Penang. 
IMPERFECTLY KNOWN AND DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 
M. CORDIFOLIA, Wall. Cat. 6260; glabrous, branches woody, leaves subsessile 
ovate-cordate rather coriaceous, fruiting cyme often sparsely hairy, berries obovoid 
glabrous areola large without calyx-teeth.— Penang, Wallich. 
M. wacRoPHYLLA, Kurz Herb. (? of For. Fl. ii. 57, not of Wallich); branches gla- 
brous, leaves 7-10 by 3-44 in. broadly elliptic or obovate acuminate very membra- 
nous, nerves beneath hairy, petiole 3-1 in., stipules subulate-lanceolate hairy, cymes 
silky, flowers crowded, calyx-lobes much longer than the ovary and bracteoles lan- 
ceolate, corolla hirsute (in bud only), large white calycine leaf 4-6 in. long glabrous.— 
A small tree, South Andaman Island, Kurz. Probably a form of M. Jrondosa, var. 5. 
M. ravETTXFOLU, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 57; branches tomentose, leaves 10-12 in. 
shortly petioled oblanceolate caudate-acuminate very membranous glabrous above 
pubescent on the nerves beneath, stipules broadly triangular acuminate, cymes small 
axillary and terminal very shortly peduncled villous, calyx-teeth filiform hairy longer 
than the ovary, corolla (in bud) quite glabrous.—Pegu, at Tonkyeghat, Kurz. 
M. parva, Wall. Cat, 6261; G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 491; stem very slender scan- 
dent, sparsely hairy as are the leaves beneath, and sometimes above, leaves 2 in. 
subsessile lanceolate subacute, stipules small, cymes subsessile contracted villous, 
bracts and calyx-teeth subulate much longer than the ovary, corolla 1 in., tube very 
slender appressed-pubescent, lobes small acute.—This, from its slender habit and 
foliage, appears distinct from any described species.—A single specimen from Tavoy. 
M. virosa, Wall. Cat. 6254; climbing, branches and leaves beneath almost 
hispid with spreading rufous hairs, leaves 3-4 in. subsessile ovate or elliptic with 
scattered hairs above finally glabrate abruptly acuminate, cymes with spreading 
hispid branches and appressed hirsute bracts and calyx-teeth which are lanceolate 
and much longer than ovary, corolla 4-3 in., tube very slender with appressed hairs, 
lobes small broadly ovate not apiculate,—Penang, Wallich, Phillips.—This resembles 
a very hairy M. glabra, or a form of variolosa, but the bracts and calyx-teeth are 
much longer; the flowers are smaller than in any form of frondosa. 
M. corymnosa, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 15; Fl. Ind. i. 556; W. § A. Prodr. 393.— This 
is a Caleutta garden plant of Roxburgh's, which he states to be a native of Malabar 
and Ceylon, and to differ from M. frondosa in being glabrous, amongst other 
characters. No Ceylon or Malabar plant known to me answers to his description, or 
to a figure of a Calcutta Garden plant which bears this name in a collection of draw- 
ings at Kew made for Dr. Roxburgh (not the Roxburghian drawings cited by W. & AA 
Wallich’s M. corymbosa, Roxb. 6252, consists of two plants, of which one (A. B. in 
part, C. and D.), from the Khasia Mts. and Nipal, differs wholly from Roxburgh’s 
description, and is that I have called Roxburghii; the others (B. in part and D. in 
part, both from Caleutta Garden) do agree with his description and drawing in the 
