88 LXXV. RUBIACE.*:. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Mussa>nda. 



its parts, and flowering later than the other Cachar species. It may bo a form of M. 

 incana or Roxburghii, but if so it is a remarkable one. Stem as thick as the little 

 finger, pubescent above. Leaves 8-12 by 4-6 in., thick and leathery, quite glabrous 

 above, abruptly acuminate ; petiole ^-2 in., very robnst ; stipules ^- by in., 

 leathery, hairy, erect or recurved. Cymes 2-3 in. diam., almost capitate, on stout 

 peduncles. Calyx-teeth % in. Corolla nearly 1 in. long. Buds obtuse (without subu- 

 late points). 



5. Xtt. tomentosa, WigJit in Wall. Cat. 6265; erect, shrubby, branches 

 and leaves on both surfaces densely clothed with velvety tomentum, leaves all 

 petioled ovate-elliptic or ovate-lanceolate acute or obtuse white beneath, stipules 

 narrow 2-fid, cymes sessile contracted, bracts and calyx-teeth elongate subulate 

 twice as long as the ovary, corolla velvety, tube 1 in., limb 1 in. diam., lobes 

 broad acute, berry puberulous crowned with the long calyx-teeth. W. $ A. 

 Prodi: 394 ? 



CARNATIC ; Ginger Hills, amongst masses of rock in shade, Herb. Wight. 



Leaves 3-5 in., narrowed into the petiole. Cymes with no leafy white calyx-lobes. 

 A very distinct species, badly described by Wight and Arnott as hirsutely villous, 

 the pubescence being singularly soft, velvety and close, more so than in any other 

 species. It resembles in some respects var. 2 of M. frondosa, but is distinguished by 

 the dense soft pubescence, the much larger flowers, and persistent calyx-teeth. It is 

 not the M. tomentosa of Wight's own Herbarium, No. 1271, which is var 7 of M. 

 frondosa, and from which possibly the description in the Prodromus is taken ; there 

 is, however, a specimen of this in Wight's own Herbarium, marked in mss. 1271 A. 



6. 1H. Wallichii, G. Don Gen. tiyst. iii. 490 ; glabrous, leaves elliptic 

 ovate or lanceolate acuminate nerves beneath pubescent, stipules long gradually 

 narrowed from the base entire or 2-fid, cymes glabrous, bracts subulate, calyx- 

 teeth half as long as the elongate ovary or longer, corolla quite glabrous, tube 

 slender, lobes narrow finelv acuminate, berries subglobose with persistent calyx- 

 teeth. M. longifolia, Wall. Cat. 6258. M. glabra, Wall. Cat. 6251 A. in part. 

 M. Jelincldi, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1876, ii. 135. 



Walllch, McLelland ; and TENASSERIM, at Tavoy, Gomez. GREAT Nico,- 



BAR ISLAKD, JelincJc. 



Branches robust. Leaves in small specimens 4-5 by 2 in., elliptic, sometimes 

 broadly, in larger ones much longer, 12 by 4 in., usually abruptly or caudately acu- 

 minate, rather membranous, quite glabrous above; stipules narrow, - in., persistent, 

 erect. Cymes lax-flowered, quite glabrous, as are the white calycine leaves. Corolla- 

 tube 1 in. ; lobes in., glabrous. Very variable in foliage, and sometimes approaching 

 M. glabra, but the cymes are always glabrous and the calyx-teeth persistent. 

 Kurz's Nicobar specimen (M. JelincJdi) has very small calyx-teeth and obliquely ob- 

 lanceolate very membranous leaves, with slender petioles, very like those of M. 

 Griffithii, which differs in the silky corolla. 



7. BK. G-riffithii, Wight mss. in Herb. ; branches with stiff appressed 

 hairs, leaves petioled 12 by 3 in. obliquely oblanceolate finely acuminate very 

 membranous, midrib and very slender nerves beneath hairy, petiole slender 1-2 

 in., stipules 2-fid villous, cymes sessile with several short hispid dense-flowered 

 branches crinite with the filiform bracts and calyx-teeth which latter are twice 

 as long as the ovary and persistent in the young fruit, corolla 1 in., tube 

 slender silky, lobes narrow acuminate, berries ovoid glabrous. 



TENASSERIM.; Mergui, Griffith. 



The only specimen I have seen is in Wight's Herbarium, and the leaves entirely 

 resemble those of M. Jelmckii, but the corolla is densely silky, and the calyx-teeth 

 very long, as in M. Roxburghii and in pavettafolia, which has a glabrous corolla. 

 The white calycine leaves are 2-3 in. long, ovate-lanceolate with very long points. 



