MUSStENDA macrophylla. 
(The broad-leaved Mussaeoda.) 
Class, 
PENTANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
CINCHONACEiE. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
rEXBRic Charactbk. — Calyx with an oblong turbi- 
: e tube, a five-parted limb, and deciduous, erect, 
: ite lobes, one of which is usually drawn out into a 
je petiolate, reticulately nerved, coloured leaf. 
'Olla funnel-shaped, with a five-parted limb, and a 
ous throat. Anthers five, sessile within the tube, 
: jar, inclosed, and sometimes a little exserted. 
, yma bifid. Fruit ovoid, fleshy, naked at the apex, 
I n the limb of the calyx being deciduous, inde- 
1 jent, two -celled ; cells many-seeded. Placentas 
) unculate, bifid at the apex, rising from the dis- 
|iment, and appearing like a Burgundian cross. 
very numerous, small, lenticularly compressed, 
i'brous. Embryo in fleshy albumen, with the radicle 
thick, and turned towards the hilum. — Don'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 Cincbonaceoiis plant, first described by Dr. Wallicb, in tbe second 
Jlume of Roxburgh’s “ Flora Indica" above twenty years ago, and since figured 
i Wallicb’s Plantoe AsiaticcB rariores.,^'' (vol. ii. t. 180), bas been introduced 
'thin tbe last few years to tbe Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, by Messrs. Knigbt and 
’ rry, and flowered there for tbe first time in tbe summer of 1 844. It blossomed 
I fin in June, 1845, when tbe annexed embellishment was prepared, with tbe 
lid permission of those gentlemen. 
! It is an upright spreading shrub, of a noble aspect ; tbe branches amply 
’c 3rned with a most luxuriant foliage, and terminating in fine corymbs of orange 
bssoms, which have an increasedly rich appearance from tbe three broad, almost 
!i )w-white floral leaves that stand around them. In its native country, according 
t Dr. Wallicb, it sometimes acquires a tendency to ramble, when growing in 
1 ces where tbe roots spread amongst an over-rich soil ; and it is not unlikely 
plants under cultivation in our stoves might do the same, if subjected to a 
c se, much heated atmosphere. At the Exotic Nursery it forms a bush about 
t ee feet high, of the most perfect symmetry. If planted out in the border of a 
ciservatory, it would probably grow to five or six feet ; and the magnificence of 
1 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- 
