MmscendaJ] Lxxv. RUBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 91 



NIPAL and SJKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 1-5000 ft. ; ASSAM, KHASIA MTS., alt. 0-4000 ft. ; 

 CACHAB, CHITTAGONO, TENASSERIM (Heifer, Kew Distrib. 2778; Griffith, 2775, 2776); 

 SINGAPORK ; MALACCA (Maingay, Kew Distrib. 834 ; Griffith. 2779) and PENANO. 

 DISTRIB. Malay Islands. 



The very glabrous habit, rather coriaceous leaves, smaller calyx-teeth, long slender- 

 hairy (rarely glabrate) corolla-tube, and small broad acute corolla-lobes, distinguish 

 this from its allies. The leaves do not exceed 5 inches in length ; the calycine white- 

 leaf is never more than 3 in. long, very broad obtuse and glabrous ; the calyx-teeth 

 vary from quite minute to almost twice as long as the ovary ; the berries are some- 

 times mottled as in M. variolosa. 



VAB. 1 ; leaves narrowed at the base glabrous or sparsely pubescent beneath, 

 calyx-teeth subulate about equalling the ovary. From Sikkim and Bhotan to- 

 Chittagong. 



VAB. 2 ; leaves narrowed at the base glabrous or softly pubescent beneath, 

 -calyx-teeth lanceolate longer than the ovary. Malacca and Singapore. 



VAB. 3 ; leaves acute or rounded at the base quite glabrous, calyx-teeth equalling 

 or shorter than the ovary. Tenasserim (fruit not seen). 



VAB. 4 ; leaves usually obtuse or rounded at the base setulose on the midrib- 

 above. M. setulosa, Klotzsch in Monatsb. Berlin. Akad. 1853, 510. Pegu to Penang. 



IMPMBFECTLY KNOTVN AND DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



M. COBDIFOLIA, Wall. Cat. 6260 ; glabrous, branches woody, leaves subsessile- 

 ovate-cordate rather coriaceous, fruiting cyme often sparsely hairy, berries obovoid 

 glabrous areola large without calyx-teeth. Penang, Wallich. 



M. MACROPHYLLA, Kurz Herb. (? of For. Fl. ii. 57, not of Wallich); branches gla- 

 brous, leaves 7-10 by 3-4^ in. broadly elliptic or obovate acuminate very membra- 

 nous, nerves beneath hairy, petiole ^-1 in., stipules subulate-lanceolate hairy, cymes 

 silky, flowers crowded, calyx-lobes much longer than the ovary and bracteoles lan- 

 ceolate, corolla hirsute (in bud only), large white calycine leaf 4-6 in. long glabrous. 

 A small tree, South Andaman Island, Kurz. Probably a form of M. frondosa, var. 5. 



M. PAVETT-KFOLiA, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 57; branches tomentose, leaves 10-12 in. 

 shortly petioled oblanceolate caudate-acuminate very membranous glabrous above 

 pubescent on the nerves beneath, stipules broadly triangular acuminate, cymes small 

 axillary and terminal very shortly peduncled villous, calyx-teeth filiform hairy longer 

 than the ovary, corolla (in bud) quite glabrous. Pegu, at Tonkyeghat, Kurz. 



M. PABVA, Wall. Cat. 6261 ; G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 491 ; stem very slender scau- 

 dent, sparsely hairy as are the leaves beneath, and sometimes above, leaves 2 in. 

 subsessile lanceolate subacute, stipules small, cymes subsessile contracted villous, 

 bracts and calyx-teeth subulate much longer than the ovary, corolla 1 in., tube very 

 slender appressed-pubescent, lobes small acute. This, from its slender habit and 

 foliage, appears distinct from any described species. A single specimen from Tavoy. 



M. VILLOSA, Wall. Cat. 6254 ; climbing, branches and leaves beneath almost 

 hispid with spreading rufous hairs, leaves 3-4 in. subsessile ovate or elliptic with 

 scattered hairs above finally glabrate abruptly acuminate, cymes with spreading- 

 hispid branches and appressed hirsute bracts and calyx-teeth which are lanceolate 

 and much longer than ovary, corolla |- in., tube very slender with appressed hairs, 

 lobes small broadly ovate not apiculate. Penang, Wallich, Phillips. This resembles 

 a very hairy M. glabra, or a form of variolosa, but the bracts and calyx-teeth are 

 much longer ; the flowers are smaller than in any form of frondosa. 



M. CORYMBOSA, Roxb. Hort. Seng. 15 ; FL Ind. i. 556; ' W. $ A. Prodr. 393. This- 

 is a Calcutta garden plant of Roxburgh's, which he states to be a native of Malabar 

 and Ceylon, and to differ from M. frondosa in being glabrous, amongst other 

 characters. No Ceylon or Malabar plant known to me answers to his description, or 

 to a figure of a Calcutta Garden plant which bears this name in a collection of draw- 

 ings at Kew made for Dr. Roxburgh (not the Roxburghian drawings cited by W. & A.)v 

 "Wallich's M. corymbosa, Roxb. 6252, consists of two plants, of which one (A. B. ia 

 part, C. and D.), from the Khasia Mts. and Nipal, differs wholly from Roxburgh's 

 description, and is that I have called Roxburghii; the others (B. in part and D. in 

 part, both from Calcutta Garden) do agree with his description and drawing in tha 



