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or nodding cymes, much intermixed with conspicuous often rigid 
bracts. 
Cymes compact, nodding, the bracts subulate, stiff and rigid - M. nutans. 
Cymes corymb-like, erect, hirsute, the bracts broad and hirsute, 
soft . ‘ . . . . . yin « UU. hirsutum. 
1. M. nutans, R. Br.—An ascending shrub or rather under. 
shrub of several feet, all parts glabrous ; stipules $ an in. long or 
longer, lanceolate, dry, glabrous ; leaves elliptically ovate to obo- 
vate, decurrent at the rounded base into a strong petiole up to an 
inch long, acuminate, harshly chartaceous, glabrous, $-? ft. long, 
the lateral nerves numerous, regular and prominent ; flowers small, 
white, shortly pedicelled, crowded and collected into a head-like 
glabrous short-peduncled nodding eyme at the end of the branches 
which is supported by floral leaves and densely bracted ; bracts stiff 
and scarious, ovate-lanceolate to linear subulate, about 4 lin. long, 
striate ; calyx-lobes rigid and striate, 3-34 lin. long, linear, subu- 
late-acuminate, glabrous; corolla shorter than the calyx-lobes or 
rarely as long ; berries ovoid, glabrous, crowned by the very long 
searious calyx-lobes. 
Has.—Chittagong.—Fr. Jan. 
2. M. hirsutum, Kz.—A stout undershrub, all softer parts 
brownish hirsute; stipules hirsute, linear-lanceolate, thick-mem- 
branous, about an in. long ; leaves elliptically oblong, acute at the 
ase, on a hirsute petiole up to 4 in. long, acuminate, membranous, 
3-1 ft. long, glabrous above, roughish pubescent beneath, the 
numerous nerves regular and rather prominent ; flowers rather small, 
Has.—Ava hills —Fl. May. 
-MUSSENDA, L. 
Calyx-tube oblong-turbinate ; limb 5-cleft or -parted, the lobes 
deciduous or rarely persistent, one of them in a few of the flowers 
of each corymb enlarged in a membranous usually pure white or 
pale-coloured large leaf. Corolla funnel- or almost salver-shaped, 
hairy at the throat, the tube often slender ; limb 5-parted, imbricate. 
Anthers 5, sessile in the throat and included or nearly so. Ovary 
