Muss#npa. RUBIACE E. 895 
TRIBE II.—GARDENIACEJ. Rich. 
Ovary 2-celled, or 1-celled from the imperfection of several dissepi- 
ments; cells many-ovuled. Fruit fleshy, indehiscent, with as many 
cells as in the ovary, or rarely l-celled from abortion. Seeds usually 
several very rarely solitary in each cell from abortion, not winged. ` 
Albumen fleshy or eartilaginous.— Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, 
with stipules between or sometimes within the petioles. 
SUBTRIBE L—GARDENIEX. DC. 
Flowers not collected on a common receptacle : fruits distinet and not concrete. 
III. MUSSHNDA. Linn.; Gertn. fr. 1. t. 28; Lam. ill. t. 157. 
Calyx-tube oblong-turbinate : limb 5-partite, the lobes at length deciduous, 
erect, acute, one of them sometimes produced into a large petioled reticu- 
lately veined coloured leaf. Corolla infundibuliform : limb 5-partite: throat 
villous. Anthers 5, sessile within the tube, linear, included or slightly pro- 
truded. Stigma bifid. Fruit ovoid, fleshy, not crowned with the limb of 
the calyx, indehiscent, 2-celled ; cells many-seeded. Placentz arising from 
the middle of the dissepiment, stalked, bifid and divaricating at the apex. 
Seeds very numerous, small, lenticularly compressed, roughish. Embryo in 
fleshy albumen: radicle thick, pointing towards the hilum.—Small trees or 
shrubs. Leaves ovate, petioled. Stipules two on each side, distinct or united 
at the base, acuminated. Flowers corymbose, terminal. Bracteas small, si- 
tuated under the pedicels and branches of the corymb. 
We omit here M. arcuata, Lam. (Wight! cat. n. 1265), that being without doubt 
a native of the Mauritius. In all the following the lobes of the corolla have a short 
sharp point. 
1213. (1) M. glabra (Vahl:) leaves oval, tapering at both ends, and with 
the branches and corymbs nearly glabrous: segments of the calyx lanceolate- 
subulate, about as long as the tube, one of them in some of the flowers of 
each corymb produced into a large ovate acute glabrous petioled leaf: corolla 
pubescent on the outside: fruit glabrous, obovoid.—Vahl, symb. 3. p. 38; 
DC. prod. 4. p. 370 ; Spr. syst. 1. p. 706; Wall.! L. n. 6251 ; Wight! cat. n. 
1266.— Rumph. Amb. 4. t. 51? : onus 
This is probably a mere variety of M. frondosa; we can point out no dif- 
ference but the shorter segments of the calyx ; the villous, pubescent, or 
glabrous leaves afford no character whatever. : 
` 1214. (2) M. corymbosa (Roxb.:) leaves oblong and the branches and 
corymbs glabrous: stipules cordate at the base, cuspidate at the apex ell 
ments of the calyx subulate, glabrous, one of them in some of on ped 
owers of each corymb produced into an ovate-lanceolate leaf: style a at 
half the length of the tube of the corolla: fruit oval—Roxb. ff. Ind. 1. p. 556 ; 
(ed. Wall.) 2. p. 226; DC. prod. 4. p. 871; Spr. syst. suppl. p. 73; Wall. L. 
^. 6252.— M. frondosa, Roxb. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1220.——Malabar; Row- 
burgh. 
This we have not seen. ey » 
1215. (3) M. frondosa (Linn. :) erect, leaves oval acuminated, trom villous 
or hirsute d ee ndang M eei and corymbs when young pubescent 
or more or less tomentose: segments of the calyx subulate, 2—4 times the 
length of the ovary, hirsute, one of them in some of the axillary flowers of 
the corymb produced into a large acute pubescent or villous leaf: corolla ex- 
