LXXV. KUBIACE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) 87 



** Flowers in cymes; calyx-teeth persistent till the fruit is ripe. 



2. 2IC. Roxburg-hii, Hook. f. ; erect, stem hairy above, leaves short- 

 petioled oblong-lanceolate glabrous 'above, stipules triangular-lanceolate, cymes 

 very dense many-flowered crinite from the filiform hairy calyx-teeth, corolla 

 silky, tube narrow, lobes very small with filiform tips, berries glabrous, crowned 

 with the calyx-lobes. M. corymbosa, Wall. Cat. 6252 A. B. in part, C. D. in 



r-t. ? M. corymbosa, Kurt For. Fl. ii. 68. ? M. pubescens, Wall. Cat. 6257 

 M. frondosa, Wall Cat. 6250 E. ? and C. in part. Musseenda. No. 18 and 

 19, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA ; Nipal, Wallich ; Sikkim, alt. 1-4000 ft., Herb. Griff. (Kew 

 Distrib. 2780), J. D. H., &c. KHASIA Mrs., Gomez, &c. ; alt. 3-4000 ft., J. D. H. $ 

 T. T. CACHAR, Keenan. CHITTAGONQ, J. D. H. &T.T. ? ARRACAN and TBKASSERIM, 

 Kurz. 



This is the M. corymbosa of the Calcutta Gardens, and of Roxburgh, according to 

 Wallich, but is certainly not the plant described under that name by Roxburgh in the 

 Flora Indica, which has " ovate-lanceolate bracts," and ovate pointed lobes of the 

 corolla, which are " convex and villous above," and which is stated to be a native of 

 Ceylon and Malabar. There is, however, on one of "Wallich's sheets of this plant a 

 single specimen of a plant, also from the Calcutta Gardens, which agrees better with 

 Roxburgh's description, having large convex pubescent corolla-lobes, and which prob- 

 ably does not differ from the M. frondosa of Malabar and Ceylon. M. Eoxburghii is 

 best known by its dense cyme, long tube and small limb of the corolla, with a filiform 

 tip ; the leaves are always glabrous above, and the fruit globose and glabrous ; the 

 large white calycine leaf is always glabrous. Wallich's 6257 B, a Calcutta Garden 

 plant, is certainly not pubescens, and has the filiform corolla-lobes of M. Eoxburghii, 

 but differs in the branches clothed with spreading hairs. There are two varieties of 

 M. Roxburghii. 



VAR. 1 ; branches nearly glabrous, leaves oblong-lanceolate 4-6 by 2 in., and 

 bracts and flowers silky. Assam, Silhet, Cachar, Chittagong. 



VAR. 2 ; branches more or less villous above, leaves longer petioled broader and 

 more membranous elliptic 6-12 in., bracts and flowers villous. Nipal, Sikkim, Khasia 

 Mts., alt, 3-4000 ft. 



3. Itt. incana, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Wall. $ Carey, ii. 229 ; Cat. 

 5256 ; stem erect subsimple softly tomentose or villous as are the leaves beneath 

 and cymes, leaves shortly petioled ovate subacute hairy above white beneath, 

 calyx-teeth filiform twice as long as the ovary, corolla silky, lobes ovate acumi- 

 nate, berry globose with subpersistent calyx-teeth. DC. Prodr. iv. 371. M. 

 pubescens, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 6257. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA ; Nipat, Wallick ; Sikkim, alt. 2-4000 ft., Herb. Griffith (Kew 

 Distrib. 2781, 2782), J. D. H. ASSAM; Sukanugur and Goalpara, Hamilton. KHASIA 

 MTS., alt. 2000 ft., Griffith, J. J). H. $ T. T. 



Stem erect, simple and herbaceous or branched, 2-3 ft., covered with soft shining 

 appressed hairs. Leaves 5-6 in., stiff, rounded or acute at the base, nerves many and 

 strong ; stipules tapering from a broad base, bifid. Cymes small, subsessile. Leafy 

 white calyx-lobe pubescent. Corolla f in. long ; tube slender. Berries at first hairy, 

 then glabrous ; areola small. 



4. M. XLeenani, Hook. f. ; subherbaceous, very robust, leaves petioled 

 broadly elliptic acuminate coriaceous densely tomentose beneath, nerves very 

 strong, stipules very broadly ovate acuminate, cymes dense-flowered glabrous or 

 pilose criuite with the filiform calyx-teeth, corolla glabrous, tube slender, lobes 

 small ovate-lanceolate acuminate. 



CACHAR ; on the margins of flats, &c., Keenan. 



A remarkable plant, described by its finder as herbaceous, large and robust in all 



