Musmnda.'] LXXV. RUBIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 89 



. *** Flowers in cymes, calyx-teeth deciduous almost immediately after flowering r . 



8. BX. maeropfcylla, Wall. in Roxb. FLInd. ed. Carey $ Wall ii. 228; 

 erect or subscandent, branches leaves beneath and cymes hirsute or villous, leaves 

 short-petioled broadly elliptic acute, bracts and calyx-lobes foliaceous oblauceo- 

 late obtuse caducous, corolla lobes orbicular apiculate, berries hairy. Wall. PL 

 As. Rar. ii. 77, t. 180; Cat. 6295; Sot. Reg. xxxii. t. 24; DC. Prodr. iv. 370. 

 M. hispida, Don Prodr. 139; DC. 1. c. M, calycina, Wall. Cat. 6253; Kurz 

 For. Fl. ii. 58. M. frondosa, Wall. Cat. 6250 A. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA; Nipal, Wallich. KHASIA MTS., alt. 1-4000 ft., J. D. H. $ 

 T. T., C. B. Clarke. PEGU and ANDAMAN and NICOBAR ISLANDS, Kurz. MALAY 

 PKNINSULA, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 8357/2 and ?941). DISTRIB. A va, Philippine 

 Islands. 



Usually a subscandent shrub ; branches stout ; hairs rufous when dry. Leaves 

 4-10 by 2-3^- in., slightly hairy above; stipules acute or 2-fid, broad, recurved. 

 Cymes short-peduncled, often 3-chotomous ; flowers crowded ; bracts large, laciniate. 

 Calyx-lobes -f in., nerves parallel, leafy white lobe 2-5 in. Corolla 1 in., tube hir- 

 sute, lobes orange, throat villous. Berries broadly ellipsoid, \ in. long ; areole very 

 broad. Kurz distinguishes M. calycina as a scandent shrub with lanceolate calyx- 

 teeth in. long, and corolla-lobes as long as the corolla- tube, from M. macrophylla, 

 which is a large shrub, or small tree, with calyx-teeth %-$ in. and corolla-lobes nearly 

 |- as long es the corolla-tube ; but his macrophylla is not the Wallichian plant of that 

 aiame, and is, I think, M. frondosa, var. 5. 



9. BX. frondosa, Linn.-, DC. Prodr. iv. 370; glabrate tomentose or 

 hirsute, leaves sessile or petioled elliptic oblong or ovate acuminate, stipules long 

 or short often 2-fid, cymes contracted or open softly silkily tomentose, bracts and 

 caducous calyx-lobes elongate-lanceolate much longer than the ovary, corolla 

 pubescent silky or hirsute, lobes broadly ovate acute or acuminate, berries ob- 

 ovoid glabrous, areole broad. Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 557 ; Wall. Cat. 6250 in part ; 

 Wight III. t. 124; Dais. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Ill; Bedd. Fl Sylv. Anat. Gen. 

 xvi. f. 3. M. flavescens and M. Dorinia, Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xiv. 203. 

 M. formosa, Linn. Mant. 338. M. villosa, Wall. Cat. 6254. ? M. corymbosa, 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 556. M. zeylanica, Burm. Fl. Zeyl. 165, t. 7Q.Rheede Hort. 

 Mai. ii. t. 18. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Nipal eastward ; ASSAM, KHASIA MTS., alt. 1-4000 ft. ; 

 ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kurz. WESTERN PENINSULA, from the Concan southwards. 

 DISTRIB. Malay Islands. 



It is difficult to limit this species, which passes into M. glabra on the one hand, 

 and almost into M. macrophylla on the other; and quite impossible to define its varie- 

 ties, which may be approximately diagnosed as follows. 



VAR. 1 . zeylanica ; branches leaves on both surfaces especially beneath and cymes 

 velvety, leaves sessile or shortly petioled 3-6 in. abruptly acuminate, base acute 

 rarely rounded, stipules short and broad, cymes tomentose, bracteoles and calyx-lobes 

 5~ in. lanceolate not twice the length of the ovary, white leafy lobe orbicular elliptic 

 or cordate pubescent, corolla-tube densely tomentose, limb qiiite obtuse in bud, lobes 

 short broad subacute. Ceylon only. I have not seen the berries, which Vahl (under 

 M. ylabra} states to be hairy. 



VAR. 2. ingrata; branches leaves and cymes velvety, very like those of var. ], 

 stipules short and broad, cymes contracted crinite from the long lanceolate sub- 

 setaceous bracts and calycine lobes which are i-f in. long, greatly exceeding the 

 ovary, corolla as in var. 1 but limb with 5 points 'in bud. Wall. Cat. 6250 F.; Wight 

 Cat. 1267. M. ingrata, Wall.? 



VAR. 3. laxa ; branches stipules and cymes finely densely tomentose, leaves all 

 petioled broadly elliptic rounded at the base with fine short appressed hairs, stipules 

 short 2-fid, cymes very open lax-flowered, bracteoles and calyx-teeth as in var. 2 but 

 spreading, corolla as in var. 2. Quillon, Wight. 



