88 txxv. BUBiACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) l_ilusscenda. 



its parts, and flowering later than the other Cachar species. It may be a form of M. 

 incana or Boxburghii, but if so it is a remarkable one. — Stem as thick as the little 

 finger, ptibescent above. Leaves 8-12 by 4-6 in., thick and leathery, quite glabrous 

 above, abruptly acuminate ; petiole J-2 in., very robust ; stipules 4-| by J in., 

 leathery, hairy, erect or recurved. Cymes 2-3 in. diam., almost capitate, on stout 

 peduncles. Calyx-teeth J in. Corolla nearly 1 in. long. Buds obtuse (without subu- 

 late points). 



5. m. tomentosa, Wight in Wall. Cat. 6265 ; erect, shrubby, branches 

 and leaves on both surfaces densely clothed with velvety tomentum, leaves all 

 petioled ovate-elliptic or ovate-lanceolate acute or obtuse white beneath, stipules 

 narrow 2-fid, cymes sessile contracted, bracts and caljx-teeth elongate subulate 

 twice as long as the ovary, corolla velvety, tube 1 iii,, limb 1^ in. diam., lobes 

 broad acute, berrv puberulous crowned with the long calyx-teeth. W. 4r -A. 

 I'rodr. 394 ? 



Caknatio ; Ginger Hills, amongst masses of rock in shade, Herb. Wight. 



Leaves 3-5 in., narrowed into the petiole. Cymes with no leafy white calyx-lobes. 

 — A very distinct species, badly described by Wight and Arnott as hirsutel; villous, 

 the pubescence being singularly soft, velvety and close, more so than in any other 

 5p6eies. It resembles in some respects var. 2 of Sf. frondosa, but is distinguished by 

 the dense soft pubescence, the much larger flowers, and persistent calyx-teeth. It is 

 not the M. tomentosa of Wight's own Herbarium, No. 1271, which is var 7 of Mi 

 frondosa, and from which possibly the description in the Prodromus is taken ; there 

 is, however, a specimen of tliis in Wight's own Herbarium, marked in mss. 1271 A. 



6. 9X. Walllclill, G. Don Gen. iSyst. iii. 490 ; glabrous, leaves elliptic 

 ovate or lanceolate acuminate nerves beneath pubescent, stipules long gradually 

 narrowed from the base entire or 2-fid, cymes glabrous, bracts subulate, calyx- 

 teeth half as long as the elongate ovary or longer, corolla quite glabrous, tube 

 slender, lobes narrow finelv acuminate, berries subglobose with persistent calyx- 

 teeth. M. longifolia. Wall. Cat. 6258. M. glabra. Wall. Cat. 6251 A. in part. 

 M. Jelincldi, Kurz in Joum. As. Soe. 1876, ii. 1.35. 



Kangook, Wallich, McLelland ; and Tenasseeim, at Tavoy, Gomez. Great Nico- 

 BAU IsLAiTD, Jelinck. 



Branches robust. Leaves in small specimens 4-5 by 2 in., elliptic, sometimes 

 broadly, in larger ones much longer, 12 by 4 J in., usually abruptly or caudately acu- 

 minate, rather membranous, quite glabrous above ; stipules narrow, §— |- in., persistent, 

 erect. Cymes lax-flowered, quite glabrous, as are the white calycine leaves. Corolla- 

 tube 1 in. ; lobes J in., glabrous.— A''ery variable in foliage, and sometimes approaching 

 AI. glabra,, but the cymes are always glabrous and the calyx-teeth persistent. 

 Kurz's Nicobar specimen {M. Jelinckii) has very small calyx-teeth and obliquely ob- 

 lanceolate very membranous leaves, with slender petioles, very like those of M. 

 Griffithii, which differs in the silky corolla. 



7. nx. Griffitlill, Wight mss. in Herb.; -branches with stiff appressed 

 hairs, leaves petioled 12 by 3 in. obliquely oblanceolate finely acuminate very 

 membranous, midrib and very slender nerves beneath hairy, petiole slender 1-2 

 in., stipules 2-fid villous, cymes sessile with several short hispid dense-flowered 

 branches crinite with the filiform bracts and calyx-teeth which latter are twice 

 as long as the ovary and persistent in the young fruit, corolla 1 in., tube 

 slender silliy, lobes narrow acuminate, berries ovoid glabrous. 



Tenasserim; Mergui, Griffith. 



The only specimen I have seen is in Wight's Herbarium, and the leaves entirely 

 resemble those of M. Jelinckii, but the corolla is densely silky, and the calyx-teeth 

 very long, as in M. Boxburghii and in paveitafolia, which has a glabrous coroUa. 

 The white calycine leaves are 2-3 in. long, ovate-lanceolate with very long points. 



