184 King & Gamble — Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 4, 



minal and axillary, condensed when in flower, the branches very pilose . 

 bracts narrowly oblong, 3 in. long. Calyx *3 to *4 in. long, pilose, the 

 tube narrowly campanulate, shorter than the linear-lanceolate acuminate 

 teeth ; the odd lobe occasionally petaloid, ovate-rotund, bluntly acumin- 

 ate, slightly narrowed to the long petiole, 5-nervecl, glabrous above, 

 pubescent below on the nerves, shorter than the leaves. Corolla yellow, 

 •75 in. long, more than three times as long as the calyx, narrowly 

 cylindric in its lower half, slightly wider in the upper half; the limb 

 only about 25 in. in diam., its lobes short, broad ; the mouth closed by 

 a mass of thick short hairs. Fruit oblong-clavate, with lax deciduous 

 white hairs, about *5 in. long and '25 in. in diam. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 III. 191 (among doubtful species). 



Perak: Scortechini 240, 243; Yapp 213, 341; Schomburgh 17; 

 Curtis 1024. Penang : King 600; King's Collector 1755; Curtis 289, 

 1934. Lankawi: Curtis 2871. Pahang : Ridley 2188. Kedah: Curtis 

 2521. 



This species was (no doubt from want of good specimens) treated in the Flora 

 of British India as a doubtful one. Since the Flora was written better specimens 

 have been obtained. 



var. Eerveyana, King ; leaves broadly ovate or elliptic, shortly and 

 abruptly acuminate, smaller than in the typical form and densely clothed 

 on the lower (less so on the upper) surface with soft white hairs ; the 

 young branches and inflorescence with smaller hairs. 



Malacca: Hervey. 



5. Mussaenda cordipolia, Wall. Oat. 6260. A climber 20 to 60 

 feet long; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, terete, glabrous. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong, acute or shortly and bluntly acuminate, 

 only slightly narrowed to the rounded, often slightly cordate base 

 (occasionally narrowed to the base) ; both surfaces quite glabrous, the 

 lower with distinct transverse reticulations ; main-nerves about 8 pairs, 

 curved, ascending, thin, slightly depressed on the upper surface and 

 prominent on the lower; length 5 to 65 in.; breadth 1*75 to 2*5 in. ; 

 petiole '2 to *25 in.; rusty adpressed-pilose ; stipules free, lanceolate, 

 much acuminate, deciduously hirsute at the base. Cymes terminal and 

 axillary, on long slender peduncles, many-flowered, rather lax, sparsely 

 adpiessed rusty-pubescent ; bracts few, about 15 in. long. Calyx '2 in. 

 long, cylindric-campanulate, the lobes linear-lanceolate, shorter than 

 the tube, spreading, one occasionally enlarged (2 to 2*5 in. long) and 

 petaloid, ovate-oblong, creamy white, glabrous, with 5 or 6 pairs of 

 ascending puberulous nerves, its petiole slender, *5 to 75 in. long. Corolla 

 nearly 1 in. long, adpressed-pubescent outside, the tube narrowly cylin- 

 dric, slightly widening upwards, the limb only -2 in. wide, its lobes ovate, 



