420- RUBIACEÆ. Morinpa. 
1290. (5) M. aspera (W. & A.:) young branches compressed, covered with 
harsh pubescence: leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminated, attenuated at the 
base, rough on the upper side and on the nerves on the under with very 
short bristly hairs or points: stipules broadly oval, obtuse, entire or 2-cleft : 
capituli few-flowered, globose, on short axillary peduncles, ebracteolate : co- 
rolla longish-infundibuliform, externally glabrous ; limb 5-cleft, the segments 
unequal : anthers included.— Wight ! cat. n. 1820. 
- Our specimens were obtained from Klein’s herbarium, and are very imper- 
fect: it appears to approach to-.M. Chachuca, Ham. 
1291. (6) M. stenophylla (Spr.:) young branches somewhat 4-angled, co- 
vered with an ashy-coloured tomentum : leaves elliptic-lanceolate, acuminated 
at both ends, shortly petioled, elothed on both sides with a very short ashy 
tomentum : stipules lanceolate, at length reflexed: peduncles axillary, soli- 
tary, alternate, tomentose : flowers externally tomentose.—Spr. syst. 1. p. 149; 
DC. prod. 4. p. 448.—M. angustifolia, Roth, nov. sp. p. 147 (not Roab.)—— 
Cultivated near Beddir (probably Bednore in Mysore) ; Heyne. 
1292. (7) M. tomentosa (Heyne:) somewhat arborescent: branches gla- 
brous and shining; young ones 4-angled, tomentose : leaves roundish-ovate, 
acuminated, often slightly cordate at the base but also tapering into a short- 
ish petiole, shortly tomentose on both sides, particularly underneath and on 
the nerves above: stipules usually bifid: peduncles axillary, solitary, longer 
than the petiole, tomentose: capituli ebracteolate, oval, few-flowered.— 
Heyne! in Roth, nov. sp. p. 147 ; DC. prod. 4. p. 448; Wight! cat. n. 1821.— 
M. mudia, Ham. in Linn. soc. trans. 13. p. 536 ; DC.l.c.; Spr. syst. 1. p. 749. 
—Carnatic, Rottler ; Hamilton. 
§ 2. Corolla shortly infundibuliform, cylindrical below, slightly widened at the 
mouth, 4- (or occasionally 5- ) cleft : stamens 4, or occasionally 5. ~~ 
duncles all terminal, 3-10 together, umbellate.—Padavara, DC. _ 
- 1293. (8) M. umbellata (Linn.:) shrubby, glabrous, climbing: leaves from 
oblong-lanceolate to cuneate-oblong, pointed, usually with a small 
gland in the axils of the nerves on the under side: stipules membranaceo 
united into a truncated sheath: peduncles 3-7, in a sessile terminal umbel, 
about half the length of the leaves: capituli globose: calyx-margin entire: 
corolla with a short tube : limb 4- (or occasionally 5-) cleft: filaments short, 
included, inserted into the bottom of the dilated part of the tube among 
much hair; anthers exserted.— Linn. sp. p. 250; DC. prod. 4. p. 449; Spr ; 
syst. 1. p. 750; Wight! cat. n. 1322.—M. scandens, Roxb. fl. Ind. 1. p. oe 
(ed. Wall.) 2. p. 202; DC. I. c.—M. Padavara, Juss. in enc. meth. su, ^n 
p. 5; Spr. l. c.—Rheed. Mal. 7. t. 27. Courtallum. Travancore. Mata- 
ar. 
The number of stamens varies in the same head of flowers, but there are 
usually only four. That Rheede's Malabar plant and the Ceylon one of f 
næus are identical, might have been readily supposed from the proximity ae 
the two countries, and the correspondence between the descriptions Boni v 
but we are not aware of any botanist having hinted at this except Dr Indi P. 
ton, in the Lin. soc. trans. 13. p. 533. Roxburgh, when finally leaving T" b 
for England, met with it in Ceylon, and the name and short character oft pur, —— 
lished in the Flora Indica are those sent from thence to one of the editors ^ — P 
that valuable work : had Roxburgh at the time had access to books, he wi je 
not have failed to discover the Linnean synonym. Moon, in his Catalogus * v 
Ceylon plants, trusting to Linnæus’ erroneous reference to Rumph. An wow. 
t. 98, a species allied to, if not the same with, M. bracteata, introduces + 
umbellata entirely on Linneus’ authority, without adding any 1 
Roxburgh’s M. scandens is mentioned as found at Caltura. Muc er 
ambiguity as to this plant may have arisen from Linnseus $ 
