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•5 in. long and "3 in. in diam. when dry. DC. Prod. IV. 370 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 6251 sheet A only and in part; Kurz. For. PL Burro. II. 56 ; Hook. 

 fil. PL Br. Ind. III. 90 (in part). 



Malacca: Maingay (K.D.) 834; Griffith (K.D.) 2779. Singapore.: 

 Ridley 116. Malacca: Berry 31. — Disteib. British India. 



Var. puberula, upper surface of leaves glabrous except the puberu- 

 lous midrib and nerves ; lower surface puberulous or pubescent on the 

 reticulations and sometimes on the interspaces also. M. glabra Vahl, 

 Var. 2: Hook. fil. I.e. 91. 



Singapore : Walker 65 ; Anderson 77 ; Schomburgk 43 ; Ridley 116a, 

 846a, 3651. 



Under the No. 6251 and the name M. glabra, Wallicli issued three gather- 

 ings bearing the letters A, B, and C. The gathering B was received from Herb. 

 Finlayson, and the locality of its collection is unknown. Gathering C was received 

 from Penang. Both these are the same as the plant issued as If. cordifolia and as 

 No. 6260. The remaining gathering (A), as preserved in the Wallichian Herba- 

 rium in possession of the Linnean Society of London consist of three twigs, for one of 

 which with almost glabrous flowers the name M. glabra is arbitrarily retained. Of 

 the other two one has been referred by Sir Joseph Hooker to M., Wallichii, G. Don, 

 and the third belongs to the species which I have named 21. polyneura. 



8. Mussaenda oblonga, King n. sp. A shrub 6 to 8 feet high ; 

 young branches as thick as a goose- quill, angled, somewhat compressed, 

 pale, striate, sparsely lenticellate, glabrous. Leaves membranous, elliptic- 

 or obovate-oblong or obovate-lanceolate, much narrowed to the base, the 

 apex shortly and rather abruptly caudate-acuminate ; both surfaces 

 glabrous, the lower pale (when dry) ; main-nerves 6 to 9 pairs, curved- 

 ascending, slightly conspicuous; length 55 to 9*5 in. ; breadth 1" 75 to 

 3 - 5 in. ; petiole "4 to *8 in., puberulous or glabrous ; stipules triangular, 

 linear- acuminate, glabrous, -25 to '4 in. long. Cymes solitary, terminal, 

 shortly pedunculate, much shorter than the leaves even when in fruit, 

 umbellate, lax, wide-spreading ; the branches somewhat compressed, 

 glabrous ; bracts linear-lanceolate, 2 in. long. Calyx '3 to "4 in. long, 

 glabrous ; the tube oyliudric, slightly expanded above the base, its mouth 

 with linear erect teeth shorter than or as long as the tube. Corolla 

 pale yellow, twice as long as the calyx; the tube cylindric; the limb '4 

 in. in diam., its lobes narrowly lanceolate. Fruit globular-ovoid, some- 

 times sub-obovoid, the apex broad, crowned by the cicatrix of the deci- 

 duous calyx. M. longifolia, Wall. Cat. 6258, (not of Lam.) M. Wal- 

 lichii, G-. Don, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. HI. 88 (not of Don). 



Perak: King's Collector J935, 3542 ; Curtis 3303. 



9. Mbssaekba Tjsysmanniana, Miq. FL Ind. Bat. II. 213. A dim- 

 ber; young branches somewhat thinner than a goose-quill, terete, 

 deciduously adpressed rusty-pilose, and with elongated lenticels. Leaves 



