56 RUBIACER. [ Mussenda. 
2- celled, with many ovules in each cell attached to a 2-cleft placenta 
projecting from the partition; styles with 2 stigmatic lobes. Berry 
fleshy, indehiscent, 2-celled, many-seeded. Albumen fleshy.—Small 
trees or shrubs, sometimes scandent, with interpetiolar stipules 
often at the base 2-cleft or -parted. Flowers. rather small, but 
gaudy-coloured, in terminal corymb-like cymes. 
* Calyz-limb deciduous, leaving an annular disk on the apex 
of the berry. . 
O Calyx-teeth 3-1 lin. long. 
Calyx-teeth erect, lanceolate; branchlets puberulous or velvety . MW. glabra. 
Calyx-teeth as in preceding, but reflexed ; branchlets hirsute » MM. variolosa. 
OO Calyx-lobes 2-6 lin. long. 
Calyx-lobes filiform, 2-2 lin. long, all equal, none leaf-like 
{ . prefers . : : . é . M. pwettefolia. 
Calyx-lobes linear, 2 3 lin. long; corolla-lobes nearly half as long 
corolla-tube ‘i : : : < ; a - M. macrophylla. 
Calyx-lobes lanceolate, about 4 in. long ; corolla-lobes ‘about das 
long as the tube : ‘ * - M, calycina, 
* ry 
Calyx-teeth linear-subulate, about 4 lin, long; corymbs rather 
pact . : go ae ; . ° » M. corymbosa, 
shortly pubescent stalk } an in. long; corolla tubular-funnel-shaped, 
about 5-6 lin. long, pubescent, the lobes ovate, acute, a line long ; 
berries ovoid-elliptical, the size of a pea, glabrous, marked by the 
imb. 
and 
Var. 2, Wallichii (Jf, Wallichii, G. Don. : leaves pubescent 
beneath and also along the nerves above ; salisks shorter. 
Has.—In the drier hill forests of the M i 
elevation—Fl. Fr. March—s, + 1-88 = eg Se 
2. M. variolosa, Wall.—An evergreen, large, scandent shrub, the 
branchlets hispid from spreading brown stiff hairs ; stipules hispid ; 
leaves oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, acuminate or obtuse at the 
base, on a brown-hispid petiole 1-2 lin. long, 3-4 in, long, faleate- 
acuminate, firmly membranous, entire, above sparingly, beneath, 
