66 Lxx. RUBiACKiE (hiern). [MusscBoida. 



above ; ovules very numerous, inserted on tlie fleshy placentas. Fruit 

 usually fleshy and indehiscent, rarely loculicidally dehiscent and dry, 

 often obtusely ribbed, crowned by the calyx-lobes or their remains, 

 2-celled ; seeds very numerous, usually minute. — Climbing or erect 

 shrubs, with opposite rather thin leaves ; interpetiolar, solitary or 

 geminate, usually deciduous stipules ; cymose terminal, mostly yellow 

 flowers, and deciduous bracts and bracteoles. 



A considerable geniis, occurring also in Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands, 

 and in the hotter parts of Asia and the Indian Archipelago. 

 Fruit indehiscent, ^1 J in. long. Leaves mostly exceeding 3 in. 

 Calyx-lobes, at least 4 of them, short, rounded or apicuUito or deltoid, not subulate 

 nor linear. 

 Inflorescence dense. 



Corolla clothed with deflexed hairs. Lateral veins of 



the leaves 10-14 on each side of the midrib . . I. M. Afzelii. 

 Corolla puberulous outside. Lateral veius of the Itaves 



^6-7 on each side of the midrib 2. M. Iseriiana. 



Inflorescence rather lax. Corolla glabrous outside. Lateral 



veins 4 on each side of the midrib of the leaves . . 3. M. polifa. 

 Calyx-lobes, or at least 4 of them, long, linear or subulate. 

 Stipules orate lanceolate or subulate, f in. long or less. 

 Branchlets glabrate or pubescent or hispid with deflexed 

 hairs. 

 Corolla glabrous or nearly so outside. 



Corolla-tube slender, straight ; lobes acuminate. 



Fruit oblong A. M. stenocarpa. 



Corolla-tube funnel-shaped above, often curved ; 

 lobes not acuminate. Fruit subglobose or 



ellipsoidal 5. M. arcuata. 



Corolla hispid or hirsute outside. 



One calyx-lobe often produced into a large dilated 

 white or coloured lamina. 

 Enlarged calyx-lobe white; the other lobes fili- 

 form or subulate 6. M. tenuiflora. 



Enlarged calyx-lobe bright red ; the other lobes 



lanceolate T. M. erythrophylla. 



Calyx-lobes subequal, or at least uncoloured . . . 8. iW. elegans. 

 Branchlets hispid with hairs directed upwards . . . . 9. MJ keinsioides. 



Stipules broadly ovate, about ^ in. long 10. M.l platypkylla. 



Calyx-lobes, or at least 4 of them, long, elliptical, much 



'a.cuminate 11. M. grandiflora. 



Fruit loculicidally dehiscent, \ in. long. Leaves not exceeding 



3 inches in length \2. M. lutenla, 



1. »«. Afeelil, G. Bon, Gen. Si/st. iii. p. 490, (1834). A shrab 

 of 4-G ft., perhaps subscandent. Branches terete tawny-subtomen- 

 tose at the extremities. Leaves oval, shortly and abruptly acu- 

 minate, rounded or obtuse at the base, paler beneath, shortly sca- 

 brid-hispid on both feides, 3-G by 1^3 in., or the upper ones rather 

 smaller ; lateral veins 10-14 on each side of the midrib ; tertiary veins 

 oblique ; stipules ovate, often bifid ; petiole yV~2 ^^* I^lowers yellow, 

 |~1 in. long, tawny- tomentose outside, subsessile, in dense pedunculate 

 terminal and lateral cymes. Calyx hemispherical and l-^ in. diameter 

 in flower ; lobes short, rounded or apiculate, persistent, subequal or one 

 produced into a white or yellowish subrotund acuminate hispiduloas 



