Monrtnpa. J. RUBIACE X. 419 
$1. Corolla long, infundibuliform, 5-cleft, with a wide mouth : stamens 5. Pe- 
duncles either terminal and in pairs, or axillary, or leaf-opposed (from the 
abortion of a leaf ).—Roioc, DC. 
1286. (1) M. citrifolia (Linn. :) somewhat arboreous, glabrous : branchlets 
4-angled: leaves oval, attenuated at both ends, shining: stipules membrana- 
ceous, obtuse: capituli shortly peduncled, leaf-opposed, without bracteas: 
corolla long-infundibuliform ; limb 5- (occasionally 4~7-) cleft: anthers half 
hid in the tube: style the length of the tube: berries concrete into an obtuse 
ovate shining fruit.— DC. prod 4. p. 446; Spr. syst. 1. p. 750; Gertn. fr. 1. 
t.29; Roxb. fl. Ind. 1. p. 541; (ed. Wall.) 2. p. 196 ; Ham. in Linn. soc. 
pu p.533; Wight! cat. n. 1316.— Rheed. Mal. 1. t. 52 ; Rumph. Amb. 
1287. (2) M. tinctoria (Roxb.:) somewhat arboreous, glabrous: leaves ob- 
long or oblohg-lanceolate, tapering at both ends, not shining : stipules short : 
capituli shortly peduncled, leaf-opposed or in the axil of a smaller leaf, with- 
out bracteas : corolla long-infundibuliform ; limb 5-cleft: anthers included: 
style and stigmas exserted: berries concrete into an oval head.—Rowb. f. 
Ind. 1. p. 543; (ed. Wall.) 2. p.197 ; DC. prod. 4. p. 447 ; Spr. syst. suppl. 
P. 80; Wight! cat. n. 1317.—M. citrifolia, Roxb. in E. I. C. mus. tub. 918. 
Although we retain this species, and have taken our character from Rox- 
burgh, yet it appears to us to be the wild state, and M. citrifolia the more 
usually cultivated one of the same plant: the slight difference pointed out in 
the degree of protrusion of the anthers and style are not, we fear, either suf- 
ficiently well marked or constant. We have some doubts if Dr Wight’s spe- 
«mens be quite the same as Roxburgh’s: if they be so, we may add to the 
above, that M. citrifolia has the leaves thin and flaccid, M. tinctoria firm and 
hard. The length of the petiole affords no character in any of the species of 
this genus. 
“1288. (3) M. bracteata (Roxb. :) arborescent, glabrous, rigid : leaves oval- 
oblong, pointed at both ends, shining: stipules broader than long, rounded : 
capituli short-peduncled, leaf-opposed, solitary, bracteated: bracteas few, 
foliaceous, their petiole adnate with the tube of the calyces: corolla long- 
infundibuliform ; limb 5-cleft : anthers quite included : stigmas elevated above 
the mouth of the tube : berries concrete into a roundish fruit.— Roxb. fi- Ind. 
l.p. 544 ; (ed. Wall.) 2. p. 198; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1367 ; Ham. in Linn. 
e ti 13. p. 534; DC. prod. 4. p. 447 ; Spr. syst. 1. p. 750; Wight! eat. 
n. 1318. : i 
The stem before us was received from Klein's herbarium; we do not 
know where he obtained it. : 
1289. (4) M. exserta (Roxb. :) arborescent: leaves from broadly-oval to 
oblong-lanceolate, pointed, tapering at the base: stipules broadly-oval, ob- 
tuse, entire or bifid: capituli shortish-peduncled, usually solitary, sometimes 
Mn pairs, without bracteas: corolla long-infundibuliform ; limb 5-cleft: fila- 
Ments inserted into the mouth of the tube, between the segments, and with | 
the anthers much exserted : style the length of the tube: drupes concrete in- 
to an oval or roundish fruit.—z ; leaves broadly oval, scarcely tapering at the 
Pase, short-petioled, glabrous or pubescent.—M. exserta, Roxb. fl. Ind. 1. 
P. 545 ; (ed. Wall.) 2. p. 199 ; in E. 1. C. mus. tab. 1365 ; DC. prod. 4. p. 447 ; 
Pr. syst. suppl. p. 80.—5 ; leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, firm and rigid, 
attenuated at the base into a longish petiole, glabrous, or hairy in the axils 
of the nerves underneath.—Wight! cat. n. 1819. — r 
€ have not seen any authentic specimens of this species, and have re- 
Wight's cat. n. 1319 to it as a variety, notwithstanding the great dif- 
ference in the shape of the leaves, on account of the structure of the flower. 
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