-Mussenda,} RUBIACES. 561 
flattened. Fruit a compressed, obcordate, coriaceous eo 
girtin the middle By the calyx-limb ; crown opening by 2 w 
gaping valves; placentas divaricate, many-seeded. Seeds ak 
angled ; testa essay: albumen fleshy ; embryo clavate. 
Leaves membranous, thin 
Cymes rather lax and flo weil glabrous ; capsules glabrous 
arrisiana var, argented. 
Cymes dense-flowered, tomentose ; capsules pubescent...... aber opie 
almost coriaceous; cymes very dense-flowered and clothed 
with dense, shaky pobdsoence +..sis), ewlivninsn Waniweaee villosa. 
960. OpHiorrHIzA HARRISIANA Heyne var. ARGENTEA Hook. f. 3 
Bit; 78. 
Chittagong. 
A perennial herb, shrubby below. 
961, sean TRICHOCARPA BI; F. B. I. iii. 78. 
Chitta i 
A heat herb. 
%2. OpHtorruiza vinLosa Roxb.; F. I. i. 702; F. B. L. iii. 79. 
Chittagong. 
_ A perennial herb. 
414, Musseenda Linn. 
Shrubs or undershrubs, rarely herbs, erect or climbing ; leaves 
: te o r ternate; stipules solitary or in pairs between the 
E bvitle “and bractedles small, deciduous. Sepals connate 
_~ oblong or turbinate ealyx-tube ; lobes of limb 5, yr: 
Yous, one of the 5 frequently developed as a large, — 
bract-lik i i : noe 
; iobes valvate, with edges everted. nena 
to throat or tube of corolla ; filaments very short; anthers 
linear, Carpels connate in a 2-celled ovary; ovules me vit 
i “grad placentas; style filiform; stigmas 2, ofa unde 
Y, Many-seeded berry with an areolate crown. 
| a: testa pitted; albumen fleshy ; embryo minute. 
“ri nena till the fruit is ripe «-+--++ssrer77"""" shee 
duous as soon as flowering is OVEF..-+++ ee ied glabr ‘a. 
