92 LXXV. RUBIACER, (J. D. Hooker.) [ Mussenda. 
glabrousness of the corolla and the very large stipules. I have seen neither of these 
last in fruit, or from their native locality; they may be forms of the protean M. 
frondosa. Wight and Arnott refer Roxburgh's drawing marked M. frondosa (from 
the Indian Museum collection) to M. corymbosa, Roxb., I do not know on what autho- 
rity. M. corymbosa hence remains a doubtful plant, allied to M. Roxburghii, differ- 
ing in the very large persistent stipules, and large glabrous flowers with broad not 
appendaged corolla-lobes. As Roxburgh does not describe the ealyx-teeth as per- 
sisting on the berry it may be assumed that they are caducous, as in M, frondosa. 
M. cvwErFOLIA, Don Prodr, 139; branches and cuneate-oblong acuminate leaves 
on both surfaces pubescent, bracts lanceolate, calyx-teeth linear acute 5 times shorter 
than the eorolla.—Nipal, Wallich. This is probably M. incana, but the description 
applies as well to JM. frondosa, Roxburghit, glabra, and macrophylla, all Nipalese 
species. 
30, ACRANTHERA, Arn. 
Hairy herbs or low undershrubs. Leaves large, membranous, stipules 
triangular. Flowers blue, in sessile or stoutly peduncled subterminal bracteate 
cymes. Calyx-tube oblong; segments 5, usually very long and persistent. 
Corolla funnel- or salver-shaped, hairy without; lobes short, valvate in bud 
with everted margins. Stamens 5, included within the tube, filaments filiform ; 
anthers included, cohering in a tube, pointed and spurred at their tips. Ovary 
1-celled; style filiform, stigma clavate furrowed ; ovules numerous, on 2 parietal 
2-lamellate placentas. Berry oblong or fusiform, 2-celled, many seeded. Seeds 
minute, subglobose, testa crustaceous pitted ; embryo clavate, in dense albumen. 
—Duisrnix. Species 10, Indian and Malayan. 
1, A. Maingayi, Hook. f.; stem slender woody, leaves elliptic abruptly 
acuminate glabrous, cymes terminal, calyx-lobes oblong-lanceolate, corolla-tube 
very slender tomentose, lobes ovate-lanceolate. 
Maracca, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 940). 
Stem branched. Leaves 5-7 by 21-4 in., very membranous, base acute or rounded, 
petiole slender; stipules triangular-lanceolate, 2-fid. Cymes subsessile. Calyx-lobes 
iin, puberulous, acute, deciduous.  Corolla-tube 1} in., throat not swollen; limb 
13-13 in. diam., divided nearly to the base into pubescent lobes. Berry } in., ellip- 
toid, 2-celled, areolate, not crowned by the calyx-lobes. 
2. A. Griffithii, Hook. f.; stem slender woody, branchlets and petioles 
silky, leaves broadly elliptic abruptly acuminate finely pubescent beneath, 
cymes terminal, calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate, corolla-tube very slender tomen- 
tose, lobes lanceolate acuminate. 
Eastern Himaraya, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 3089). 
This so closely resembles A. Maingayi that I doubt its locality being correct; it 
differs in the silky branchlets and petioles, the much longer narrower calyx-lobes 
5 in. long, and the larger corolla with the limb 24 in. diam. with lanceolate lobes, 
and the throat dilated and cylindrical. 
3. A. tomentosa, Br. in Wall. Cat. 8398 (Androtropis) ` hirsutely 
tomentose, stem very stout, leaves elliptic or oblanceolate acute hirsute on both 
surfaces, cymes short-peduncled subterminal, calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate, 
corolla villous, tube funnel-shaped, lobes short rounded. 
Kuasia Mrs., De Silva, Griffith. Cacuar, Keenan. 
Stem short (epiphytic, Keenan) cylindric. Leaves 4-10 in., black when dry, 
rugose ; stipules broad, acute. Calyx-lobes 2-1 in. Corolla 14 in. long, blue ?, densely 
villous. Ovary long, fusiform. Berry 13 in., with persistent calyx-lobes. 
4, A. zeylanica, Arn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. iii, 21; hirsute, stem very 
short, leaves oblanceolate tip rounded hirsute on both surfaces, cymes subter- 
