376 LXI. EUBIACE^ [Musscenda 



A large shrub, tomentose or nearly glabrous, 1. acuminate, cymes softly 

 silky-tomentose, calyx-lobes lanceolate twice the length of ovary or longer, 

 corolla orange, pubescent or hirsute, lobes acute or acuminate. Berries obo- 

 void, glabrous. 



Subhimalayan tract and outer hills from Nepal eastwards, in Sikkim to 4,000 ft. 

 West side of the Peninsula, Nilgiris. Upper Burma. PI. May-Aug — China. Malay 

 Archip. 2. M. macrophylla, Wall. PI. As. Ear. t. 180. Nepal. Sikkim 4-6,000 ft. . 

 Khasi and Naga hills. Yunnan. A large shrub or small tree, branchlets, petioles 

 underside of 1. and inflorescence hirsute or villous, 1. elliptic acute, blade 4-5, pet. J-f 

 in. long. Bracts and calyx-lobes foliaceous, oblanceolate obtuse, corolla orange, tube 

 hirsute, lobes orbicular, apiculate. Berry hairy. To this in PL Brit. Ind. iii. 89, is 

 referred M. calycina, Wall., Kurz P. PI. ii. 58 of Burma. 3. M. glabra, Vahl. Sikkim 

 from the Terai to 5,000 ft. Assam. Khasi hills, Cachar, Chittagong; Martaban and 

 Tenasserim hills. Malay Peninsula. China. A rambling, almost climbing shrub, 

 glabrous, excepting the appressed hairy inflorescence, calyx-teeth varying in length, 

 less than twice the length of ovary. Corolla- tube slender, usually with appressed hairs, 

 lobes short, acute, berry globose glabrous. Species 1-3 vary exceedingly and are often 

 difficult to distinguish 4. M. variolosa, Wall. Arakan. Pegu Yoma, southern slopes. 

 Tenasserim, common at Amherst. Hispid, with spreading rufous hairs, 1. hairy beneath 

 and often above, lanceolate, usually sessile, the lower sometimes petiolate. 



B. Calyx-teeth persistent. 



5. M. Koxburghii, Hook, f . Sikkim Terai to 4,000 ft. Assam. Khasi hills, Manipur, 

 Cachar, Chittagong. Perak.. A shrub, 1. membranous, glabrous above, lanceolate, 

 or elliptic-lanceolate, blade 6-12, pet. J— 1 in. long. Cymes very dense, many-fld., 

 calyx-teeth long filiform hairy, petioles of the enlarged lobes long and slender, corolla 

 slender, silky, lobes orange, small with filiform tips, berries glabrous, crowded in large 

 rounded heads. On the Khasi hills a variety, the branches hirsute with long hairs. 

 6. M. tomentosa, Wight. Gingee hills, Karnatik, branchlets, leaves and inflorescence 

 densely clothed with soft grey velvety tomentum, 1. ovate, blade 3—4, pet. ^-f in. long. 

 Cymes .without leafy coloured calyx-lobes. 7. M. Wallichii, Gr. Don (united by Kurz 

 with M. glabra, Vahl). Lower Burma. L. ovate-lanceolate, appressed hairs on nerves 

 beneath, blade 4-6, petiole f, stipules f in. long, subulate, entire or 2-fid. Inflor- 

 escence and corolla-tube entirely glabrous, bracts and calyx-teeth long, subulate. 

 8. M. incana, Wall. An undershrub, chiefly in grass lands of the Sikkim Terai and 

 the Khasi hills. Chutia Nagpur. Shan hills. Yunnan. Softly grey tomentose, fl. 

 and enlarged calyx-lobes lemon-yellow. The stems above ground probably burnt down 

 by the annual fires of the hot season. Analogous is perhaps 9. M. uniflora, Wall. 

 Tenasserim. Cochinchina, steins 6 in. high, from a stout rootstock, fl. solitary, terminal, 

 all calyx-segments linear, tube hirsute, berry ellipsoid, hairy with a few teeth 

 remaining. 



Aulacodiseus premnoides, Hook. f. Tenasserim. Malay Peninsula. A small tree, 

 branchlets stout, obtusely 4-angled. L. coriaceous, glabrous, shining, elliptic-oblong, 

 blade 6-9, pet. J-J in. long, sec. n. 12-15 pair, arching, stipules from a triangular base 

 long-acuminate. PL polygamous, 8-16-merous, in axillary trichotomous pubescent 

 cymes, bracts foliaceous at the lowest pair of ramifications, none higher up. Calyx 

 truncate, corolla broadly campanulate, disk large prominently lobed, lobes opposite 

 the corolla-lobes. Ovary 6-16-celled, stigma large peltate. Berry J in. diam., seeds 

 numerous, minute, albumen oily. 



Myrioneuron nutans, Wall. Bhutan, Assam, Khasi and Naga hills. Chittagong. 

 Upper Burma. Tonkin. A small shrub sometimes climbing, branches stout, bark 

 thick, pale, spongy. L. coriaceous, obovate-elliptic, minutely pubescent beneath along 

 the nerves, blade 6-9, narrowed into petiole J-J in. long, sec. n. 18-20 pair, prominent 

 beneath, as well as the parallel tertiary nerves, stipules J-J in. long. PL yellow, in 

 dense shortly pedunculate bracteate heads, in the axils of the uppermost 1., bracts 

 rigid, lanceolate. Calyx-teeth lanceolate, persistent, much exceeding corolla. Corolla 

 tubular, lobes short erect, pubescent on the back. Berries fleshy, white, crowned by 

 the long scarious calyx-lobes, seeds numerous, angular, black. 



Urophyllum longifolium, Wight Ic. t. 1165 (Axanthes). ( U. strigosum, Kurz P. PL ii. 

 53). Mergui. Malay Penins. A large evergreen shrub, young shoots, stipules, petioles 

 and underside of 1. pubescent. L. membranous, elliptic-lanceolate, blade 5-11, pet. J in. 

 long, sec. n. 12-15 pair, tert. n. slender, but conspicuous, stipules linear £ in. long. 

 PI. small 5-7-merous, white, glabrous, in small axillary pubescent cymes, bracts 



