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especially along the nerves, more copiously, covered with short, stiff, 
brown or rusty-coloured hairs; flowers orange-red, rather small, - 
sessile or nearly so, forming a rusty-pubescent or almost hispid ter- 
minal corymb ; calyx about 2 lin. long, more or less appressed-hispid, 
the teeth lanceolate, nearly a line long, reflexed, the calycine floral 
leaves white, broadly elliptical to oval, somewhat pubescent, con- 
tracted into a pubescent stalk up to an inch long; corolla tubular 
funnel-shaped, an inch long, pubescent, the lobes ovate, acute, 
about a line long; berries oblong, the size of a pea, glabrous or 
nearly so, marked by the annular scar of the fallen calyx-limb. 
_ Haz.—In the tropical forests of Arracan and the southern slopes of the 
Pegu Yomah down to Tenasserim.—Fl. Sep. Feb.—s. 
3. M. pavettefolia, Kz—An evergreen, large, scandent shrub, 
all softer parts shortly puberulous; stipules ovate, acuminate, 
pubescent at the base ; leaves obovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 
acute at the base, on a pubescent petiole 2-5 lin. long, acuminate, 
6-9 in. long, membranous, entire, on both sides (more so beneath) 
minutely pubescent ; flowers (in bud only) on 1-2 lin. long tawny- 
pubescent pedicels, forming a dichotomously branched, pubescent, 
very short-peduncled, corymbose cyme at the end of the branch- 
lets and occasionally in their forks; calyx tawny-pubescent, the 
tube nearly a line long, the 6 lobes filiform, 2-24 lin. long ; corolla, 
especially on the tube outside, pubescent. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of Martaban east of Tounghoo, 
—Fi. June (?)—s.—SS.—Metam. 
4. M. macrophylla, Wall—An evergreen large shrub, growing 
out into a little tree (15 —254+4—9+4 1—14), the young branchlets 
more or less hirsute; stipules lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, ap- 
pressed stiff-hairy ; leaves more or less ovate to elliptically lanceo- 
late, acute at th 
tubular funnel-shaped, the tube hardly an inch long, hirsute, the 
limb more than 3 an inch in diameter, the lobes broadly ovate, 
apiculate, nearly half as long as the tube ; berries elliptically oblong, 
the size of a large pea, smooth, marked by the annular scar of the 
-limb. 
Has.—Common in the tropical and moister upper mixed forests of the 
Andamans, especially along the coast.—Fl. May-June ; Fr. June.—s, 
