MUSSvENDA MACROPHYLLA. 
(The broad-leaved Mussaeuda.) 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
CINCHONACEiE. 
Generic Character, — Calyx with an oblong turbi- 
nate tube, a five-parted limb, and deciduous, erect, 
acute lobes, one of which is usually drawn out into a 
large petiolate, reticulately nerved, coloured leaf. 
Corolla funnel-shaped, with a five-parted limb, and a 
villous throat. Anthers five, sessile within the tube, 
linear, inclosed, and sometimes a little exserted. 
Stigma bifid. Fruit ovoid, fleshy, naked at the apex, 
from the limb of the calyx being deciduous, inde- 
hiscent, two-celled ; cells many-seeded. Placentas 
pedunculate, bifid at the apex, rising from the dis- 
sepiment, and appealing like a Burgundian cross. 
Seeds very numerous, small, lenticularly compressed, 
scabrous. Embryo in fleshy albumen, with the radicle 
thick, and turned towards the hilum.— Bon's Gard. 
and Botany. 
Specific Character. — Plant a handsome evergreen 
shrub. Branches tetragonal, brown ; branchlets beset 
with soft silky hairs. Leaves ovate, acuminated, pubes- 
cent, green above, and pale villous beneath. Stipules 
broad, ovate, bifid, acuminated and recurved at the 
apex, nearly twice as long as the petioles. Corymbs 
terminal, trichotomous, shorter than the uppermost 
pair of leaves, very pilose, on short peduncles. Calycine 
segments foliaceous, broad, oblong-lanceolate. Bracteas 
large, very hairy under each division of the inflores- 
cence. Flowers large, orange-coloured, hairy outside. 
Berries ovate, dark purple, hairy. 
This fine Cinchonaceous plant, first described by Dr. Wallicb, in the second 
volume of Roxburgh's " Flora Indica" above twenty years ago, and since figured 
in Wallich's " Plantw Asiatics rariores^ (vol. ii. t. 180), has been introduced 
within the last few years to the Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, by Messrs. Knight and 
Perry, and flowered there for the first time in the summer of 1844. It blossomed 
again in June, 1845, when the annexed embellishment was prepared, with the 
kind permission of those gentlemen. 
It is an upright spreading shrub, of a noble aspect ; the branches amply 
adorned with a most luxuriant foliage, and terminating in fine corymbs of orange 
blossoms, which have an increasedly rich appearance from the three broad, almost 
snow-white floral leaves that stand around them. In its native country, according 
to Dr. W allien, it sometimes acquires a tendency to ramble, when growing in 
places where the roots spread amongst an over-rich soil ; and it is not unlikely 
that plants under cultivation in our stoves might do the same, if subjected to a 
close, much heated atmosphere. At the Exotic Nursery it forms a bush about 
three feet high, of the most perfect symmetry. If planted out in the border of a 
conservatory, it would probably grow to five or six feet ; and the magnificence of 
its foliage would render it an object of particular interest at all times. 
It was discovered by Dr. Wallich's collectors, " on the mountains of Chundra- 
