431 
totymbs terminal,, 1~5-flowered, sessile or neatly so: calyx:tube 
vlothed with small toothed scales: lobes ovate, acute: flowers 
large, red, surrounded with lafge ovate-cordate deciduous bi - 
téoles. © 
Peninsiila, Orissa. Khasia mountains. Concans. Flowering 
all the year, 
(2) M. cenicunarum. (Rowb.) 
Ident. Roxb. fi. Ind. If. p. 463. 
‘Spec. Guar. Large shrub: leaves subsessile, lanceolate, entire, 
bristly, 3-nerved; under side of the nerves and petioles strigoge : 
calyx strigose: lobes cordate, acute: bracts 1-2 to each flower, de+ 
viduous : flowers terminal. 
Various parts of Inidia. 
(3) M. conpreoittm. (Roxd.) 
Ident. Roxb. fl. Ind. IT. p. 405. 
Spec. Cuar. Scandent, every part smooth : leaves short-petiols 
ed, cordate, entire: petals ovate; panicles terminal, 
~ Chittagong: 
(4) M. curvust. (Koxb.) 
Ident. Roxb. fl. Ind. IL. p. 406. 
Srec. Cuan. Shtubby, all the tender parts strigose : leaves pes 
tioled, ovate-cordate, 5—7-nerved, finely serrulated: petals cordate, 
ciliated, panicles terminal, corymbifurm, supra-decompeund. 
Chittagong. 
(5) M. Anortanrivm, (Nandin.) 
.ddent. Naudin. Anual. XIgp. 277.~Walp. Annal. IT. p: 564... 
Spec. Cuar. Branches somewhat tapering, covered with scaly’ 
attigee, rusty-coloured: leaves petioled, ovateslanceolate or ablong, 
acute, quite entire, 3-nerved, somewhat strigose above, softly bristly 
below: calyx strigose: lobes ovate, acute: flowers terminal at the” 
ends of the branches, before opening surrounded by 4 ovate bracts; 
Near Calcutta. 7 
(6) M. rrirtonum. (Naudin.) 
_ Ident. Walp. Annal. IL, p. 568. 
Srec..Cuar. Branches obtusely. 4«sided, rough with strigee 1; 
leaves broad-elliptic, acuminated, acnte at both.ends: quite entire, , 
5-nerved, upper side bristly, lower. covered with scabrous hairs: ca; 
lycine lobes oblong-ovate, equalling the strigose tube: flowers termi- 
nal, pedicelled, ternate. 
Goa. 
