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NiPAX and Sikkim HniALiTA, alt. 1-5000 ft. ; Assam, Khasia Mts., alt. 0-4000 ft. ; 

 Cachab, Chittagong, Tenassebiit (Heifer, KewDistrib. 2778; Griffith, 2776, 2776)^; 

 SiNOAPOEB ; Malacca {Maingay, Kew Distrib. 834 ; Griffith, 2779) and Kenang. — 

 DisTRiB. Malay Islands. 



The very glabrous habit, rather coriaceous leaves, smaller calyi-teeth, long slender ' 

 haiiy (rarely glabrate) corolla-tube, and small broad acute corolla-lobes, distinguish 

 this from its allies. The leaves do not exceed 5 inches in length ; the calycine whit& 

 leaf is never more than 3 in. long, very hroad obtuse and glabrous ; the calyx-teeth 

 vai'y from quite minute to almost twice as long as the ovary; the berries are some- 

 times mottled as in M. variolosa. 



Vah. 1 ; leaves narroired at the base glabrous or sparsely pubescent beneath, 

 calyx-teeth subulate about equalling the ovary. — From Sikkim and Bhotan to 

 ChitUigong. 



Vah. 2 ; leaves narrowed at the base glabrous or softly pubescent beneath, 

 calyx-teeth lanceolate longer than the ovary. — ^Malacca and' Singapore. 



Vae. 3 ; leaves acute or rounded at the base quite glabrous, calyx-teeth equalling 

 or shorter than the ovary. — Tenasserim (fruit not seen). 



Vab. i ; leaves usually obtuse or rounded at the base setulose on the midrib 

 above. M. setulosa, Klotzsch in Monatsb. Berlin. Akad. 1853, 510. — ^Pegu to Penang. 



IMPKEFECTLT KNOWN AND DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



M. COBDIFOLIA, Wall. Cat. 6260 ; glabrous, branches woody, leaves subsessile 

 ovate-cordate rather coriaceous, fruiting cyme often sparsely hairy, berries obovoid 

 glabrous areola large without calyx-teeth. — ^Penang, Waltich. 



M. HACBOFHYixA, Kurz Herb. Q of For, Fl. ii. 57, not of Wallich); branches gla- 

 brous, leaves 7-10 by 3-4J in. broadly elliptic or obovate acuminate very membra- 

 nous, nerves beneath hairy, petiole i-1 in., stipules subulate-lanceolate hairy, cymes 

 silky, flowers crowded, calyx-lobes much longer than the ovary and bracteoles lan- 

 ceolate, corolla hirsute (in bud only), large white calycine leaf 4-6 in. long glabrous. — 

 A small tree. South Andaman Island, Kurz. Probably a form of M. frondosa, var. 5. 



M. PAVETT^FOLU, Kurz FoT. Fl. ii. 67; branches tomentose, leaves 10-12 in. 

 shortly petioled oblanceolate caudate-acuminate very, membranous glabrous above 

 pubescent on the nerves beneath, stipules broadly triangular acuminate, cymes small 

 axillary and terminal very shortly peduncled villous, calyx-teeth filiform hairy longer 

 than the ovary, corolla (in bud) quite glabrous. — Pegu, at Tonkyeghat, Kurz. 



M. PAEVA, Wall. Cat. 6261 ; G. Don Gen. Syst. iii. 491 ; stem very slender scau- 

 dent, sparsely hMry as are the leaves beneath, and sometimes above, leaves 2 in. 

 subsessile lanceolate subacute, stipules small, cymes subsessile contracted villous, 

 bracts and calyx-teeth subulate much longer than the ovary, corolla 1 in., tube very 

 slender appressed-pubescent, lobes small acute. — This, from its slender habit and 

 foliage, appears distinct from any described species. — A single specimen from Tavoy. 



M. VILLOSA, Wall. Cat. 6254; climbing, branches and leaves beneath almost 

 hispid with spreading rufous hairs, leaves 3-4 in. subsessile ovate or elliptic with 

 scattered hairs above finally glabrate abruptly acuminate, cymes with spreading 

 hispid branches and appressed hirsute bracts and calyx-teeth which are lanceolato 

 and much longer than ovary, corolla ^-§ in., tube very slender with appressed hairs, 

 lobes small broadly ovate not apiculate. — Penang, Wallich, Phillips. — This resembles 

 a very hairy M. glabra, or a form of variolosa, but the bracts and calyx-teeth are 

 much' longer ; the flowers are smaller than in any form of frondosa. 



M. COEYMBOSA, Boxb. Sort. Beng. 15; Fl. Ind. i. 556; V. ^ A. Prodr. 393.— This- 

 is a Calcutta garden plant of Roxburgh's, which he states to be a native of Malabar 

 and Ceylon, and to differ from M. frondosa in being glabrous, amongst other- 

 characters. No Ceylon or Malabar plant known to me answers to his description, or 

 to a flgure of a Calcutta Garden plant which bears this name in a collection of draw- 

 ings at Kew made for Dr. Eoxburgh (not the Eoxburghian drawings cited by W. & A.)- 

 Wallich's M. corymhota, Eoxb. 6262, consists of two plants, of which one (A. B. in 

 part, C. and D.), from the Khasia Mts. and Nipal, differs wholly from Eoxburgh's 

 description, and is that I have called Boxbwghii; the others (B. in part and D. in 

 part, both from Calcutta Garden) do agree with his description and drawing in the 



