1903.] King & Gamble— Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 1S3 



white, veined with green, narrowly elliptic or oblanceolate, acute, tapered 

 to a short petiole, 3-nerved and with prominent reticulations, sparsely 

 strigose, under 2 in. in length and less than half as broad. Corolla 

 slightly longer than calyx, red, very pilose; the tube cylindric; the 

 limb '4 or "5 in. across, with 5 broad short blunt lobes. Fruit oblong- 

 ovoid, sparsely pilose, about *5 in. long and '3 in. in diam., crowned by 

 the long persistent calyx-lobes. 



Perak: Wray 40, 1788, 2583; King's Collector 685, 1960, 10943, 

 5353? Scortechini; Curtis 1024. Penang : Curtis 2730, 3304. 



3. Mussaenda macrophylla, Wall, in Roxb. PI. Ind. ed. Carey & 

 Wall. II. 228. A shrub; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, 

 rusty-pilose. Leaves thickly membranous, elliptic-oblong, slightly 

 narrowed at the base, the apex shortly acuminate ; upper surface 

 sparsely strigose, the midrib rusty-pilose, the lower rusty-pilose especi- 

 ally on the midrib and nerves; main-nerves 9 to 11 pairs, slightly 

 curved, ascending, prominent on the lower less so on the upper surface 

 when dry; length 3 to 5 in. ; breadth 15 to 2 in. ; petiole "2 in. ; stipules 

 triangular, densely pilose, about "25 in. long. Cymes solitary, terminal, 

 shorter than the leaves and condensed when in flower, many-flowered. 

 Calyx about *5 in. long, narrowly infundibuliform, cut half way down 

 into equal lanceolate teeth, pilose outside especially on the tube : 

 enlarged lobe ovate, acuminate, 2 or 3 in. long, sparsely pubescent, with 

 greenish ascending nerves; its petiole slender, about 1 in. long. Corolla 

 yellow, twice as long as the calyx, densely pilose outside ; the tube 

 cylindric, widening in its upper half; the limb "3 or *4 in. in diam. with 

 broad blunt lobes. Fruit unknown. Wall. PI. As. Rar. IT. 77, t. 180 ; 

 Bot. Reg. XXXII. t. 24; DO. Prod. IV. 370. Wall. Cat. 6255. M. 

 hispida, Don Prod. 139 ; DC. Prod. I.e. M. frondosa, Wall. Cat. 6250 A. 



Perak: King's Collector 6016. Malacca: Maingay (K.D.) 835/2, 

 941. — Distrib. British India ; Philippine Islands. 



I follow the Flora of British India in referring this plant to M. ynacrophylla, 

 Wall., but I have some doubt as to the accuracy of this view. The plant here des- 

 cribed approaches, M. villosa very closely, and it is difficult to distinguish the two 

 by words although specimens of the two look very different. 



4. Mussaenda villosa, Wall. Cat. 6254. A climber ; young 

 brunches much thinner than a goose-quill, deciduously rusty-pilose. 

 Leaves membranous, oblong, elliptic-ovate or -acute, much narrowed to 

 the base, the apex shortly acuminate or acute, both surfaces (but especi- 

 ally the lower) sparsely pilose; main-nerves 9 to 12 pairs, thin but 

 prominent on the lower surface (when dry), slightly curved, ascending; 

 length 3 to 5 in.; breadth 125 to 225 in.; petiole "25 to 1 in., pilose; 

 stipules lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, pilose, *4 in. long. Cymes ter- 



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