S2 Lxxv. EDBiACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [^Musscenda. 



glabrousncss of the corolla and the rery large stipules. I hare seen neither of these 

 last in fruit, or from their native locality ; they may be forms of the protean M. 

 Jrondosa. Wight and Arnott refer Roxburgh's drawing nvarked M. frondoaa (from 

 the Indian Museum collection) to M. corymbosa, Boxb., I do not know on what autho- 

 rity. M, eorymbosa hence remains a doubtful plant, allied to M. Roxhurghii, differ- 

 ing in tl^e very large persistent stipules, and &rge glabrous flowers with broad not 

 appendaged corolla-lobes. As Roxburgh does not describe the calyx-teeth as per- 

 sisting on the berry it may be assumed that they are caducous, as in M. frondosa. 



M. CCNEIFOKA, Don Prodr. 139; brandies and cuneate-oblbng acuminate leaves 

 •on both surfaces pubescent, bracts lanceolate, calyx-teeth linear acute 5 times shorter 

 than the corolla. — Nipal, Wallieh. This is probably M. incana, but the description 

 applies as well to M. frondosa, Eoxburgkii, glabra, and Tnaerophylla, all Nipaleso 

 species. 



30. ACX&ANTKXSRA, Arn. 



Hairy herbs or lovr imdershruTDs. Leaves large, membranous, stipules 

 triangular. Flowei-s Hue, in sessile or stoutly peduncled subterminal bracteate 

 -cymes. Calyx-tube oblong; segments 5, usually very long and persistent. 

 CwoUa funnel- or salver-shaped, hairy without ; lobes short, valvate iii bud 

 ■with everted margins. Stamens 6, included within the tube, filaments filiform ; 

 anthers included, cohering in a tube, pointed and spurred at their tips. Ovary 

 l-celled^ style filiform, stigma clavate furrowed ; ovules numerous, on 2 parietal 

 -2-lameUate placentas. Berry oblong or fusiform, 2-celled, many seeded. Seeds 

 minute, subglobose, testa crustaceous pitted ; embryo clavate, in dense albimaen, 

 — DiSTEiB. Species 10, Indian and Malayan. 



1. A. BXaing^ayi, Sook. f. ; stem slender woody, leaves elliptic abruptly 

 ^icuminate glabrous, cymes terminal, calyx-lobes oblong-lanceolate, corolla-tube 

 very slender tomentose, lobes ovate-lanceolate. 



Maxacca, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 940). 



Stem branched. Leaves 5-7 by 2J-4 in., very membranous, base acute or rounded, 

 petiole slender ; stipules triangular-lanceolate, 2-fid. <7yme« subsessile,. Calyx-lobes 

 :J in., puberulous, acute, deciduous. Corolla-ttibe Ij in., throat not swollen; limb 

 1^-1 J in. diam., divided nearly to the base into pubescent lobes. Berry ^ in., ellip- 

 4oid, 2-celled, areolate, not crowned by the calyx-lobes. 



2. A. Griffithll, Hooh. f. ; stem slender woody, branchlets and petioles 

 silky, leaves broadly elliptic abruptly acuminate finely pubescent beneath, 

 cymes terminal, calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate, corolla-tube very slender tomen- . 

 tose, lobes lanceolate acuminate. 



Eastern Himalaya, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 3089). 



This so closely resembles A. Maingayi that I doubt its locality being correct ; it 

 differs in the silky branchlets and petioles, the much longer narrower calyx-lobes 

 g in. long, and the larger corolla with the limb 2\ in. diam. with lanceolate lobes, 

 und the throat dilated and cylindrical. 



3. A. tomentosa, Br. in Wall. Cat. 8398 (A.ndrotropis) ; hirsutely 

 tomentose, stem very stout, leaves elliptic or oblanceolate acute hirsute on both 

 surfaces, cymes short-peduncled subterminal, calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate, 

 corolla villous, tube funnel-shaped, lobes short roimded. 



Khasia Mrs., De Silva, Griffith. Cachab, Keenan. 



Stem short (epiphytic, Keenan) cylindric. Leaves 4-10 in., black when dry, 

 rugose ; stipules broad, acute. Calyx-lobes |- 1 in. Corolla 1 J in. long, blue ?, densely 

 villous. Ovary long, fusiform. Berry 1 J in., with persistent calyx-lobes. 



4. A. zeylanica, Am. in Ann. Nat. Hist. iii. 21 ; hirsute, stem very 

 short, leaves oblanceolate tip rounded hirsute on both sinrfaces, cymes subter- 



