50 Lxxv. EUBiACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) IMusscenda. 



Vae. 4. fflairaia ; branches glabrous or with scattered spreading hairs, leaves all 

 petioled broadly or narro-wly elliptic glabrous or sparingly hairy beneath or on both 

 surfaces, stipules sometimes vefy narrow, cymes open with long bracts and calyx- 

 teeth as in var. 3, corolla-tube silky, lobes apiculate as in var. 3. — Wall. Cat. 6250 

 A. C. Gr., ail for the most part ; Wight Cat. 1269, 1270 (a form with lanceolate white 

 calycine leaf). — The common Western Peninsula form. Fruit hairy in a specimen, 

 from Stocks. 



Vae. 5. grandifoUa; branches with spreading hairs, leaves all petioled 6-18 in., 

 often almost as broad, elliptic abruptly acuminate membranous glabrous above acute- 

 at both ends more or less pubescent ou the nerves beneath, stipules broad 2-fidr 

 cymes large contracted, bracts and calyx-teeth lanceolate broader than in the southern 

 forms, flowers larger, buds with 5 points, corolla-limb broad acuminate. — Nipal, 

 Wall. Cat. 6250 E.; Sikkim, alt. 2-6000 ft., J. D. H., Treutler; Assam, Jenkms, 

 Griffith; Khasia Mts., 2-5000 ft., J. D. H. S[ T. T. ?M. macrophylla, Kurz For. Fl. 

 ii. 87, not of Wallich. — This approaches forms of M. Boxburgidi, but has a much 

 larger flower and broader bracts and calyx-teeth, which latter are deciduous. Large 

 calycine white leaf sometimes 6 by 4 in, 



Vab. 6. hirsutissima ; branches cymes petioles and leaves on both surfaces hirsute 

 with often shaggy hairs, leaves subsessile 2-3 rarely 4 in. broadly ovate-elliptic 

 rarely elliptic-lanceolate, stipules short, cymes shortly stoutly peduncled contracted 

 few-flowered, bracts and calyx-lobes |-f in. broadly lanceolate, flowers very large, co- 

 rolla hirsute often 1^ in. long and 1 in. across the lobes, tube slender or very broad 

 sometimes \ in. diam. at the base and slightly contracted above it, lobes broad 

 apiculate, berry large globose, leafy calyxJobe often absent cordate. — ^M. frondoaa, 

 Wall. Cat. 6250 H. {from Herb. Heyne); var. j8. Wight Cat. 1268. M. tomentosa, 

 Wight Cat. 1271 {not of Wallich). M. villosa, Sohlecht. in PI. Hohenack. N. 1382. 

 Nilgherry, Pulney, Shevaroy, and Shevaghery hills, Wight ; Concan, alt. 6-8000 ft., 

 C. B. Clarke, who remarks that the broader flowers are injured by insects, and have 

 the corolla-tube within glabrous below the throat and larger disk-glands ; a similar 

 state is also recorded from Java. — Probably a distinct species, but it appears to pass 

 into forms of frondosa. 



10. M. variolosa, Wall. Cat. 6259; scandent, hispid vrith spreading' 

 rufous hairs, leaves subsessile lower petioled ovate or oMong or obovate-oWong- 

 acuminate, stipules small, cymes small 2-3-ehotomous, calyx-.teeth equalling- 

 the ovary or shorter deciduous in fruit, corolla-tube slender glabrate or hirsute, 

 lobes small broad not pointed, berries broadly obovoid. O. Don Oen. Syst. iii. 

 490; Kurz For. Fl.n.5Q. 



Temasseeim, Pequ, and Aeeacan, common, Wallich, Heifer, &c. (Kew Distrib. 

 2777.) 



Apparently a slander climbing species. Leaves membranous hairy on both sur- 

 face* or glabrate above, upper sessile 3-4 by 1^-2 in., lower often more elongate and 

 narrowed into a slender petiole, rarely all petioled. Cymes generally rather open 

 with spreading branches and pedicelled flowers, sometimes dense. Flowers small for 

 the genus. Calyx-teeth very variable, sometimes elongate after flowering ; leafy white 

 one small 2 in. long, orbicular or broadly elliptic, obtuse, glabrous or pubernlous, 

 Berries glabrous, small, sometimes covered with broad pale warts. 



11. K. glabra, VaM Symb. iii. 38; a rambling or climbing almost 

 glabrous shrub, leaves shortly petioled elliptic or oblong acuminate, nerves 

 beneath often hairy, stipules small simple or 2-fld, cymes glabrous or sparsely 

 appressed-hairy branched, bracts and calyx-teeth subulate or lanceolate shorter 

 or longer (never twice as long) as the ovary early deciduous afte* flowering, 

 corolla-tube 1 in. very slender glabrous or -with appressed hairs, lobes very short 

 scute, berries globose glabrous. DC. Prodr.iY. 870; Wall. Cat. 6251; Kura 

 For. Fl, ii. 56. M. penangensis, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 214. M. frondosa, 

 Wdl. Cat. 6250, B. and E. both in part. 



