•Musscenda.~\ Rubiacecr. 323 



6. O. glechosnifolia, Thw. Eniim. 140 (1859). 



C. P. 1708. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 84. 



Stems completely prostrate, rooting at the nodes, covered 

 with crisp hairs, rather stout ; 1. small, \-\ in., broadly ovate, 

 rounded or slightly cordate at base, acute or subacute at apex, 

 coarsely hairy on both sides, petiole rather long, hairy, stip. 

 inconspicuous ; cymes small, bifurcate, few-flowered, peduncles 

 glabrous or pubescent, bracts linear, ciliate, persistent; cal.- 

 segm. large, lanceolate-oblong, acute, strongly ciliate; cor.- 

 lobes as long as tube, hairy within; capsule very small, T Vin., 

 crowned with large cal.-segm., hairy. 



Moist low country to 3000 ft.; rare. Allagala; Ramboda; Sahara - 

 gamuwa Dist. Fl. Feb., July, Sept.; white. 



Endemic. 



Very like O. radicans in habit, but distinguished by its much more 

 hairy leaves and larger ciliate cal.-segm. 



16. nUSSXNOA,Um. 



Scandent, shrubby, stip. small, sometimes bifid, fl. in ter- 

 minal cymes; cal.-segm. 5, narrow, deciduous, one sometimes 

 developed into a large petioled white leaf; cor.-tube with a 

 dense lining of hair at mouth, lobes short, valvate, with 

 refiexed margins; stam. 5, inserted about \ down and enclosed 

 in cor.-tube, fil. o, anth. linear; ov. 2-celled, ovules numerous, 

 on large fleshy placentas ; fruit soft, indehiscent, 2-celled ; 

 seeds many, minute, pitted. — Sp. 40; 11 in Fl.B.Ind. 



TfL. frondosa, L. Sp. PL 177 (1753). Mussenda, Wel- 

 butsarana, S. 



Herm. Mus. 36. Burm. Thes. 165. Fl. Zeyl. n. 84. Moon Cat. 15. 

 Thw. Enum. 138. C. P. 1664. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 89. Burm. Thes. t. 76. Wight, 111. t. 124. 



A scrambling shrub, climbing by its long, flexuose, divari- 

 cate branches, which arc cylindrical and finely velvety; 1. 3-5 

 in., ovate-lanceolate, rounded at base, shortly acuminate, sub- 

 acute, finely velvety on both sides, paler and with prominent 

 venation beneath, petiole \— £in., pubescent, stip. rather small, 

 triangular, usually more or less bifid, membranous, pubescent, 

 Boon falling; fl. on stout pubescent ped. as long as ov., in 

 rather small, contracted, paniculate, terminal cymes, bracts 

 small, subulate, caducous, buds blunt, strongly 5-angled; cal.- 

 segm, nearly \ in., narrowly linear, pubescent, deciduous, the 



* The Sinhalese name unaltered. 



