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1, MussABNDA MUTABiLis, Hook. fil. Ic. Plant 1718. A climber, 15 to 

 40 feet long ; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, terete, glabrous- 

 Leaves membranous, on rather long petioles, broadly elliptic to elliptic- 

 rotund from near the base ; apiculate or shortly triangular acuminate at 

 the apex, both surfaces glabrous ; main-nerves 7 to 9 pairs, curving 

 upwards, thin but prominent on the lower surface when dry ; the reticu- 

 lations open and transverse ; length 5 to 7 in. ; breadth 3 to 45 in. ; 

 petiole '75 to 1'25 in. Stipules forming an irregularly toothed pubescent 

 ring of teeth of an inch or less in depth. Gymes terminal, much shorter 

 than the leaves even in fruit, 2-branched, the stipules shorter than those 

 of the stem. Flowers 1*5 to 2 in. long, from 8 to 12 ; bracteoles few, 

 like the calyx-lobes but smaller. Galyx-lohes equal, lanceolate some- 

 times linear-lanceolate, acuminate, sparsely strigose externally, tomentose 

 within, less than half as long as the corolla-tube, deciduous in the fruit. 

 Corolla orange red, the limb about 2 in. across when fresh, the lobes 

 elliptic-oblong, acute, with short coarse hairs on both surfaces ; the tube 

 cylindric, "1 in. wide, very slightly expanded towards the apex, adpressed- 

 pilose externally, pubescent internally. Fridt cylindric sub-clavate, 

 glabrous, faintly ridged, the apex blunt, narrowed at the base to the 

 short pedicels ; length '5 to '7 in. ; diameter about "3 in. Mussaenda 

 Kintaensis, Brace MSS. in Herb. Calc. Acranthera Maingayi, Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. III. 192. A. mutahilis, Hems. Journ. Bot. 1877, 204. 

 Mussaenda Maingayi, Stapf Trans. Linn. Soc. IV. 172, 



Perak: King's OoUedor 91, 855, J856, 3276, 4255, 4999; Wray 

 1846; Scortechini 770; Curtis 2023. Penang : Ridley 2187. JoHOR : 

 King 559. Malacca : Derry 1214. Singapore : Ridley 1643. 



VAR. hirsuta ; under surfaces of leaves and young stems pubescent ; 

 all parts of the inflorescence villose-pubescent ; stipules apiculate and 

 twice as long as in the type. 



Perak : King's Collector 225. Malacca : Derry 253. Singapore : 

 Bidley 1643. 



2. Mussaenda Wrayi, King n. sp. A climber or occasionally a 

 spreading shrub ; young stems thinner than a goose-quill, covered like 

 the leaves inflorescence and flowers with stiff more or less rusty hairs. 

 Leaves membranous, elliptic or obovate-elliptic, much narrowed to the 

 base, the apex shortly acuminate ; main-nerves 9 to 14 pairs, curving 

 upwards, thin but prominent on the lower surface ; length '4 to '8 in. ; 

 breadth 1*75 to 4 in. ; petiole '35 to '75 in, ; stipules free, lanceolate-acu- 

 minate, about "25 in. long. Cymes solitary, terminal, condensed in flower, 

 spreading in fruit, shorter than the leaves, the bracts lanceolate. Calyx 

 densely pilose, infundibuliform, '5 to "7 in. long; the mouth with 5 deep 

 lanceolate usually equal teeth, occasionally one of the teeth petaloid, 



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