228 PEWTANimiA monogyma. Mussaenda* 



which appear about the end of the rains and beginning of the cool 

 season, are larger and of a brighter colour. 



Additional species, by N. W. 



3. M. macrophylla, Wall. 



Leaves ovate, acuminate, pubescent. Corymb bracteate, trichoto- 

 mous, very hairy, with short branches. Calycine segments large, 

 foliaceous, oblong-lanceoiate. 



1 have found this noble species on the mountains of Chwndra-gm 

 and Nagarjoon in Nipal, in blossom during the rainy season, in 

 fruit during the winter. 



A large spreading shrub, generally erect, though sometimes, 

 when growing in very rich soil, tending to ramb.'e. Branches four- 

 cornered, brown ; while young almost round, densely beset with soft 

 and silky, long and spreading, grayish hairs. Leaves broad-ovate, 

 from eight to ten inches long, spreading, acuminate, with entire and 

 even margins ; the uppermost rounded and sub-retuse at the base, and 

 almost sessile, the rest acute, pubescent, slightly rugose, of a dark 

 green, colour above, pale, villous underneath, with elevated rib, and 

 parallel, oblique, approximate nerves, which unite in. sub-marginal 

 arches. Petiols thick, channelled, sub-marginate, half an inch long. — 

 Stipules large, ovate, tapering, acute or bifid, with recurved apices, 

 rem y twice as long as the petiols, hairy within the base ; there are a 

 number of small, subulate, black glands loosely attached to the in- 

 ner surface. — Corymb terminal, spreading, mauy-rlowered, shorter 

 than the uppermost pair of leaves, sessile, very hairy, trichotomous. 

 Divisions short, round, the lowermost about an inch long. There 

 are generally three jloral leaves, broad-oval, acuminate, seven- 

 nerved, somewhat villous, very thin and membranous, snow-white, 

 with faintly green veins, two or three inches long, on slender 

 elongated petiols, inserted laterally into the apex of the ovarium. — 

 Bractes numerous, large, very hairy, opposite or solitary, under each 



