992 LEAFLETS oF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 54 
Mussaenda lanata C. B. Rob. (in herbarium Bureau of 
Science). 
This also was erroneously referred to M. anisophylla Vid. 
in my first article. Quite common in, but not known outside 
the province of Benguet. First collected by myself in April, 
1904, and in November of the same year by Mr. R. S. 
Wiliams. 
Mussaenda philippica Rich. in Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. 
Par. V; 245, 1834. M. grandiflora (Mey.) Rolfe in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. XXI; 311, 1884, not Bentham. Calycophyllum grandi- 
florum Mey. Reise II; 234. Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 
V; 242, 1910. 
A sea-coast shrub, common on all the islands. 
Mussaenda villosa Wall. Cat. n. 6254, 1832. Merr. 
in Philip. Journ. Sci. V; 243, 1910. 
Mussaenda scandens Elm. n. sp. 
A climber; stem 3 to 5 cm. thick, squarrish or quad- 
rangularly angled; branches numerous, curved and interlaced, 
the free ends hanging and with suberect tips; wood whitish, 
soft, whithout odor or taste; bark smooth, yellowish, brown 
on the branches and spotted with lighter brown lenticels. Leaves 
opposite, scattered, the larger blades 12 cm. long, one half 
as much across the middle, frequently much smaller, ovately 
elliptic to broadly oblong, apex abruptly acute, base similarly 
cuneate, obtuse to subrotund, thinly coriaceous, slightly 
conduplicate on the upper subglabrous much darker green 
surface; tips recurved, entire, finely pubescent beneath on 
the nerves; petiole averaging 1 cm. long, ultimately sub- 
glabrous; nerves 7 to 10 on each side, quite evident beneath, 
ascendingly curved, reticulations fine; stipule deciduous, yellow- 
ish gray pubescent on the outer side, ovately acuminate, 
nearly 1 cm. long. Inflorescent branchlets suberect, 5 cm. 
long or longer, corymbosely branched above the middle, all 
the stalks dirty strigose; bracts acuminate, similarly pubes- 
cent, caducous; flowers upon short strigose pedicels; calyx 
elongated ellipsoid, pubescent, 4 mm. long; segments 5, ra- 
