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membranous, broadly elliptic to obovate-oblong, shortly acuminate, 

 more or less narrowed at the base ; both surfaces of the young leaves 

 (but especially the paler lower one) with minute adpressed rusty hair, 

 the older glabi-ous except on the midrib and 7 or 8 pairs of slightly 

 curved ascending rather short main-nerves ; the connecting nerves wide 

 and transverse ; length 5 to 7 in. ; breadth 2 to 3 in. ; petiole "25 to 5 

 in. long, deciduously villous; stipules free, lanceolate, with broad bases 

 and long linear apices, pilose, "IS to "2 in. long. Cymes terminal, lax, 

 longer than the leaves, spreading, much branched, umbellately many- 

 flowered ; the branches minutely pubescent, the bracts at their divisions 

 short and cup-like, those near the base of the flowers much longer (1 to 

 •2 in.) oblong, free. Calyx "15 to '3 in. long, sparsely pilose; the tube 

 sub-cylindric shorter than the 5 narrowly lanceolate acuminate spread- 

 ing teeth, one of the lobes occasionally petaloid and larger than the 

 leaves, elliptic to elliptic-rotund, shortly apiculate, much narrowed to 

 the long hairy petiole, puberulous on both surfaces, pubescent on the 5 

 radiating nerves. Coi'olla about three times as long as the calyx, its 

 tube narrowly cylindric, slightly widened in its upper third and minute- 

 ly strigose ; the limb "25 in. across (when dry) ; its lobes broad, sub- 

 acute. Fruit (unripe) cylindric, sub-clavate, crowned by the scars of 

 the deciduous calyx-lobes. 



Perak; King's Collector 731, 855, 1910, 3276, 10345.— Distrib. 

 Bali, Teysmann. 



Imperfectly known species. 



10. Mdssaenda membbanacea, King n. sp. A climber; young 

 branches thinner than a goose-quill, angled, dark-coloured, glabrous. 

 Leaves membranous, broadly elliptic, sometimes slightly obovate, the 

 apex shortly, broadly, and abruptly acuminate, the base gradually 

 narrowed ; both surfaces glabrous ; main-nerves 5 to 7 pairs, little- 

 curved, faint, spreading; length 275 to 4 in.; breadth 1*5 to 2 in. ; 

 petiole '6 to "8 in., stipules united to form a short glabrous cap. Cymes 

 solitary, on a peduncle longer than the leaves, few-flowered, dichotom- 

 ous, spreading, sub-glabrous, the bracts minute, subulate. 



Singapore : Ridley 1639. 



This is only known by leaf-speeimens. Ifc 'is a very distinct species differing 

 in form and textnre of its leaves from any other Mussaenda in the Provinces. Its 

 nearest ally seems to be M. glabra, Wall., and it much resembles a Tonquin species 

 (hitherto unnamed) collected by Balansa (Herb. 624). 



19. Trisciadia, Hook. fil. 



A glabrous woody climber. Leaves coriaceous, few-nerved ; stipules 

 short, broad, connate below, 2-toothed, caducous, leaving an annular 



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