Mussamda. jentandria monogynia. 227 



Calyx five-parted ; divisions erect, bristle-shaped, smooth. — Corol 

 funnel-shaped. Tube slender, more than twice the length of the 

 calyx, swelled a little about the middle, where the stamens are 

 lodged ; mouth closed with orange-coloured hair. Border of five 

 ovate, fleshy, pointed, spreading divisions, on the upper side convex, 

 villous, of a deep but bright orange colour, and greenish under, 

 neath. Filaments five, short, inserted into the middle of the tube. — 

 Anthers linear, hid in the tube. — Germ inferior, two-celled; ovula 

 numerous, on a pedicelled jugiform receptacle, projecting above the 

 insertion and far below it. — Style half the length of the tube of the 

 corol. Stigmas two. — Capsule oval, two-celled, two-valved. — Seeds 

 numerous. 



Obs. In some parts of India the white floral leaves are brought 

 to table as an esculent herb. 



06s. by N. W. 



This species differs decidedly from Vahl's glabra, Symb. iii. 38. 

 xvbich I found common on several of the Malay islands in wet places, 

 near water courses, &c. in flower all the year round ; and have also 

 had from Silhet ; a rambling, sometimes climbing shrub, much small- 

 er in all its parts than that described above. — N. W. 



2. M.frondosa, JVilld. sp. i. 997. 



Shrubby, erect. Leaves oblong, acuminate, villous. Panicles 

 terminal, dichotomous, villous. 



M. Zeylanica, Burnt. Zeyl. 165. t. 76. 



Belilla, Rheed. mat ii. 27. tab. 17.* 



A native of various parts of India; in the botanic garden at Ca T - 

 cutta it grows to be a pretty large shrub, but with few branches, at 

 least when compared to the preceding species, but the flowers, 



* The 18lh plate is erroneously quoted by all my authors owing, 1 presume, to the mistake 

 of Rheede, whose description refers to that, instead of the 17th plate — N. W. 



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