560 
hairs: corolla funnel-shaped, 4-cleft; throat and segments hairy 
stamens included: style exserted: stigma 4+cleft: ovary 4-celled: 
‘” Shevagherry hills. 
(7) M. crnrAta. (R.-F.) 
; Ident. Cale. Jour. Nat. Hist. VI. p. 509.—Walp. Annal. If, 
p. 761. Pax 
Spec: Cuar. Fruticose: branches terete, tomentose : leaves co= 
tiaceols,; ovate-lanceolate, acute: petioles and leaves beneath hairy; 
ciliated on the margin: stipules sbort, triangular, hairy on both 
sides: flowers aggregated, axillary, sessile: bracts minute, hairy : 
calyx 3-4-partite: divisions ovate; hairy on both sides: cofolla 
small, 3-5-cleft, very hairy: anthers sessile: style short: stigma 
8—4-cleft: ovary 3—4+celled: nuts blistered and wrinkled at the 
back. , 
Neilgherries: 
(8) M.nostkara. (R. W.) 
Ident. Calé. Jour. Nat: Hist. VI. p. 510—Walp. Anhal. 1, 
p. 761; 
a point, glabrous above, pubescent below: stipules small, acute; 
hairy : flowers few, sessile: bracts inconspicuous: calyx very hairy; 
4-cleft; divisions broad-sinuate: margins ciliated with long hairs: 
corolla pubescent within: anthers subsessile, style far exceeding the 
tube of the corolla: stigma 4-lobed: ovary 4-celled. 
Courtallum and Shevagherry hills. 
(9) M. carirunata. (R. W.) 
Ident. Calc. Jour. Nat. Hist. VI. p, 511.—Walp. Annal. II: 
p. 762. 
Spec. Cuan. Fruticose, strigosely pubescent : leaves coriacedus,; 
ovate-elliptic, acuminated or ovate or oblong-lanceolate, attenuated 
towards the apex, glabrous: stipules small, triangular: peduncles 
dxillary somewhat equalling the petioles, 3-4-flowered: flowers ses- 
sile, capitellate: bracts small, subulate: calyx 4-5-cleft : segments 
broad-ovate, obtuse: corolla hairy before expansion: ovary 4—5- 
celled. : 
Neilgherries. 
(10) M. acuminata. . (R.W.) 
Ident. Calc. Jour. Nat. Hist. VI. p. 511.—Walp. Annal. If; 
p. 762. 
