DR. O. STAPF ON THE FLORA OF MOUNT KINABALU. 17t 
different the habit of the three species here described may be, they evidently belong to 
one natural group of species which seems to be limited to North Borneo and the 
Philippines, although parallels may be found amongst the continental species, in 
South China as well as in the Western Ghats and in Ceylon. 
Muss£NDA FRONDOSA, Linné, Spec. Pl. ed. I. p. 177. 
At Kiau, alt. 2500 feet (Haviland, 1355). 
Distribution: Tropical Himalaya; Western Ghats; Malaya, from the Andamans to 
New Guinea and the Philippines. 
I refer this plant to M. frondosa with some hesitation, as it is evidently in a diseased 
state. It is nearest to the variety hirsutissima, Hook., but the calyx-teeth are broader than 
they generally are in the specimens I have seen from the Western Peninsula, and the 
only normal corolla is much smaller. All other corollas in the two specimens from Kina- 
balu are very much widened (8 lin. by 23 lin.), the anthers are replaced by thick 
filaments, and the tube is quite glabrous inside. The style is also thickened and more 
or less deformed. The ovary, however, appears normal. There was always a loose, 
crumb-like, black matter, perhaps the excrements of an insect, in the upper part of the 
tube. C. B. Clarke observed a very similar state in M. frondosa v. hirsutissima at Canoor, 
and Hasskarl describes the same deformation from “ M. frondosa, L., e. glabra, Vahl,” 
from Java. The ovaries in the Kinabalu specimens, and still more in some from the 
Nilgherries, are swollen, as if fertilized, and in the latter resemble half-mature berries. 
The case deserves investigation on the spot. From the glabrousness of the tube I should 
suggest that the deformed flowers are female, and this is the more probable from the 
analogous case which Mr. Clarke has represented in a sketch. But then the only 
normal flower which came from an inflorescence with otherwise deformed female flowers 
would be male, to judge from analogy, whilst Burck found the dimorphism combined 
with dicecism. 
Muss£NDA COCCINEA, Stapf, n. sp. Frutex, 4-6 ped. altus. Rami teretes, patule rufo- 
hirsuti. Folia forma valde variabilia, nunc petiolo vix 3 poll. longo suffulta, ovata 
vel elliptica, 4-53 poll. longa, 2-23 poll. lata, basi breviter et abrupte contracta, acuta 
vel breviter acuminata, firmula, supra nigricantia, pube rufa conspersa, subtus densius 
breviterque rufo-hirtella, demum plus minusve glabrescentia, nervis lateralibus 
primariis utrinque 8-9, inferioribus 4—5 lin. distantibus, venis transversis distinctis, 
nunc longius petiolata (ad 10 lin.), oblongo-lanceolata, 43-6 poll. longa, 2 poll. lata, 
basi longe in petiolum attenuata, longius acuminata, supra minus rufescentia, in 
nervis venulisque tantum pilis minutis albidis adpresse hirtella, nervis eodem 
numero, sed inferioribus magis distantibus. Cymæ sub anthesi valde contracte, 
demum laxiores, in inflorescentià terminali interdum floribundá racemose vel 
paniculatim, disposite, rufo-hirtellee vel hirsute, bracteatee. Bracteze ovato-lanceo- 
late, 2-21 lin. long:, dense rufo-tomentosw. Stipulæ bifidee, laciniis e basi tri- 
angulari subulatis 2-3 lin. longis, rufo-tomentosis. Pedicelli sub anthesi brevissimi, 
demum ad 2 lin. longi, dense rufo-hirtelli. Calyx rufo-hirtellus; tubus ovoideus, 2 lin. 
longus; lobi decidui, lanceolati, tubo vir longiores, acuti. Corolla coccinea, extus 
