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acute, spreading, pubescent on both surfaces. Fruit broadly sub-ovoid, 

 glabrous, crowned by the small cicatrix of the deciduous calyx-lobes, 

 •35 in. long and about -25 in. in diam. M. glabra, Wall. Cat. 6251 sheets 

 B. and 0. M. glabra, Hook. fil. (not of Vahl) Fl. Br. Ind. III. 91 var. 4 

 and part of vars. 2 and 3. 



Penang: King 603; Curtis 116; Deschamps. Perak: King' s Collec- 

 tor 4859, 5216; ScortecUni 458; Maingay (K.D.) 834. Malacca: 

 Griffith (K.B.) 2778 (in part). — Distrib. Mergui Griffith Herb. prop. 

 160. 



The Wallichian No. 6260 consists of a single gathering from Penang and it was 

 issued under this name. The same species forms, however, part of the Wallichian 

 material distributed under the name M. glabra, the remarks under which may be 

 read in the present connection. 



6. Mcssaenda poltnedra, King n. sp. Resembling M. glabra, 

 Vahl, but having leaves with 9 or 10 pairs of little-curved ascending 

 main-uerves with deciduous ad pressed rufous hairs; the inflorescence 

 and flowers, including the enlarged, calyx-lobe, rusty pubescent. M. 

 glabra, Wall. Cat. 6251 A. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. var. 4 in part. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 2776. Perak: King's Collector 5775; 

 Wray 1424. 



This is one of the three species included under Wall. Cat. 6251 A. 



7. Mussaenda glabra, Vahl Symb. Bot. III. 38. A climber; young 

 slioots much thinner than a goose-quill, angled, with dark-coloured 

 glabrous lenticellate bark. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, sometimes elliptic, 

 the base narrowed and the apex shortly acuminate, glabrous except for 

 some pubescence on the midrib and nerves ; main-nerves 5 or 6 pairs 

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

 length 2*5 to 3*5 in., breadth 5 into 16 in., rarely 2 in.; petiole about 

 •2 in. ; stipules free, broad, bifid, the lobes acuminate, '2 to "3 in. long, 

 puberulous. Cymes solitary on the apices of the terminal and lateral 

 branches, longer than the leaves, their branches at first sometimes crowded 

 but in fruit always lax, many-flowered, softly puberulous ; bracts few, 

 lanceolate, "2 in. long. Calyx narrowly campanulate, '2 in. long, the 

 mouth with short spreading lineai'- lanceolate pubescent teetli ; the tube 

 sub-glabrous ; occasionally one lobe petaloid (white), glabrous, ovate- 

 acute, rounded at the base or narrowed to the long petiole with about 5 

 nerves radiating from the base, smaller than the leaves. Corolla yellow, 

 pubescent, about four times longer than the calyx, narrowly cylindric 

 but somewhat dilated in its upper fourth; the limb only "2 in. across, its 

 lobes spreading, triangular. Fruit oblong, slightly narrowed at the base 

 and apex, the latter ci'owned by the scar of the deciduous calyx-Iobee^, 



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