90 LXXV. RUBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Mussccnda. 



VAH. 4. glabmta; branches glabrous or with scattered spreading hairs, leaves all 

 petioled broadly or narrowly elliptic glabrous or sparingly hairy beneath or on both 

 surfaces, stipules sometimes very narrow, cymes open with long bracts and calyx- 

 teeth as in yar. 3, corolla-tube silky, lobes apiculate as in var. 3. Wall. Cat. 6250 

 A. C. Gr., all for the most part Wight Cat. 1269, 1270 (a form with lanceolate white 

 calycine leaf). The common Western Peninsula form. Fruit hairy in a specimen. 

 from Stocks. 



VAB. 5. grandifolia; branches with spreading hairs, leaves all petioled 6-12 in, 

 often almost as broad, elliptic abruptly acuminate membranous glabrous above acute 

 at both ends more or less pubescent on the nerves beneath, stipules broad 2-6d r 

 cymes large contracted, bracts and calyx-teeth lanceolate broader than in the southern 

 forms, flowers larger, buds with 5 points, corolla-limb broad acuminate. Nipal, 

 Wall. Cat. 6250 E. ; Sikkim, alt. 2-6000 ft., J. D. H., Treutler-, Assam, Jenkins, 

 Griffith-, Khasia Mts., 2-5000 ft., J. D. H. $ T. T. ? M. macrophylla, Kurz For. FL 

 ii. 57, not of Wallich. This approaches forms of M. Roxburghii, but has a much 

 larger flower and broader bracts and calyx-teeth, which latter are deciduous. Large 

 calycine white leaf sometimes 6 by 4 in. 



VAR. 6. hirsutissima \ branches cymes petioles and leaves on both surfaces hirsute 

 with often shaggy hairs, leaves subsessile 2-3 rarely 4 in. broadly ovate-elliptic- 

 rarely elliptic-lanceolate, stipules short, cymes shortly stoutly peduncled contracted 

 few-flowered, bracts and calyx-lobes |-f in. broadly lanceolate, flowers very large, co 

 rolla hirsute often 1^ in. long and 1 in. across the lobes, tube slender or very broad 

 sometimes ; | in. diam. at the base and slightly contracted above it, lobes broad 

 apiculate, berry large globose, leafy calyx-lobe often absent cordate. M. frondosa, 

 Wall. Cat. 6250 H. (from Herb. Heyne); var. . Wight Cat. 1268. M. tomentosa, 

 Wight Cat. 1271 (not of Wallich). M. villosa, Schlecht. in PL HohenacJc. N. 1382. 

 Nilgherry, Pulney, Shevaroy, and Shevaghery hills, Wight ; Concan, alt. 6-8000 ft., 

 C. B. Clarke, who remarks that the broader flowers are injured by insects, and have 

 the corolla-tube within glabrous below the throat and larger disk -glands ; a similar 

 state is also recorded from Java. Probably a distinct species, but it appears to pass 

 into forms of frondosa. 



10. AC. variolosa, Watt. Cat. 6259; scandent, hispid with spreading 

 rufous hairs, leaves subsessile lower petioled ovate or oblong or obovate-oblong 

 acuminate, stipules small, cymes small 2-3-chotoinous, calyx-teeth equalling 

 the ovary or shorter deciduous in fruit, corolla-tube slender glabrate or hirsute, 

 lobes small broad not pointed, berries broadly obovoid. G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 

 490 ; Kurz For. FL ii. 56. 



TENASSERIM, PEGU, and ARRACAN, common, Wallich, Heifer, &c. (Kew Distrib. 

 2777.) 



Apparently a slender climbing species. Leaves membranous hairy on both sur- 

 faceg or glabrate above, upper sessile 3-4 by 1^-2 in., lower often more elongate and 

 narrowed into a slender petiole, rarely all petioled. Cymes generally rather open 

 with spreading branches and pedicelled flowers, sometimes dense. Flowers small for 

 the genus. Calyx-teeth very variable, sometimes elongate after flowering ; leafy white 

 one small 2 in. long, orbicular or broadly elliptic, obtuse, glabrous or puberulous, 

 Berries glabrous, small, sometimes covered with broad pale warts. 



11. UK. glabra, Vahl Symb. iii. 88; a rambling or climbing almost 

 glabrous shrub, leaves shortly petioled elliptic or oblong acuminate, nerves 

 beneath often hairy, stipules small simple or 2-fid, cymes glabrous or sparsely 

 appressed-hairy branched, bracts and calyx-teeth subulate or lanceolate shorter- 

 or longer (never twice as long) as the ovary early deciduous after flowering, 

 corolla-tube 1 in. very slender glabrous or with appressed hairs, lobes very short 

 acute, berries globose glabrous. DC. Prodr. iv. 370 ; Wall. Cat. 6251 ; Kurz 

 For. FL ii. 56. M. penangensis, Miq. FL 2nd. Sat. ii. 214. M. frondosa, 

 Wall. Cat. 6250, B. and E. both in part. 



