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LXXIV. KUBIACEJ2. 
[Musscenda. 
26 . MUSSJENDA, Linn. 
Sarmentose shrubs, rarely erect. Leaves membranous. Stipules 
solitary or paired, free or connate. Flowers in terminal compound 
cymes. Calyx-tube turbinate or oblong, lobes 5, one on the 
central flower in a cyme very large petaloid white (or coloured) 
petioled or all similar, small. Corolla tubular, tube elongate, 
usually silky, throat villous, lobes 5, short, valvate, orange or yellow 
or large red. Stamens 5, insert on the throat or below; filaments 
short. Ovary 2-celled; style filiform. Stigmas linear. Fruit 
green, baccate oblong. Seeds minute. Species 40, tropics of Asia, 
Africa, Polynesia. 
Calyx-lobes all small and similar; flowers large. 
Corolla-lobes shorter than the tube 
Corolla-lobes longer than the tube . ■ 
One calyx-lobe in one flower in three, large white 
petioled; branches and leaves hairy. 
Calyx lobes large, broad. 
Corolla little longer than calyx . 
Corolla considerably longer. 
Calyx-lobes broad lanceolate 
Calyx-lobes narrow linear long . 
Calyx-lobes short. 
Leaves softly hairy . . 
Leaves glabrescent except midrib and nerves 
beneath ...... 
Leaves glabrous or nearly so. 
Leaves oblong or lanceolate, base narrowed. 
Nerves 5 or 6 pairs .... 
Nerves 9 to 10 pairs . 
Leaves obovate-oblong .... 
Leaves round cordate at base . 
(1) M. mutabilis 
(2) M. spectabilis 
(3) M, Wrayi 
(4) M. malaccensis 
(5) M. angustisepala 
(6) M. villosa 
(7) M. purpurascens 
(8) M. glabra 
(9) M. polyneura 
(10) M. oblonga 
(n) M. cordifolia 
(1) M. mutabilis Hook. fil. Ic. PI. 1718; King, lx. 182. M. 
Maingayi Stapf, Trans. Linn. Soc. iv. 172. 
A sarmentose bush, glabrous. Leaves membranous elliptic to 
ovate acuminate, base long, narrowed; nerves 7 to 9 pairs, 5 to 
7 in. long, 3 to 4-5 in. wide; petioles -25 to 1-25 in. long. Stipules 
a toothed ciliate ring. Cymes terminal, spreading lax; peduncles 
■5 in. long; branches about as long. Flowers few. Calyx cyhndnc, 
lobes long narrow lanceolate acuminate silky. Corolla-tube 
1*5 in. long, cylindric, glabrous or velvety, limb of 5 acute oblong- 
ovate hairy lobes 2 in. across, bright red turning yellow, mouth 
hairy. Fruit cylindric clavate, -5 to 7 in. long, *3 in. through. 
Hab. Forests. Common on the main chain of mountains. Singa¬ 
pore, Selitar. Johor, Gunong Pulai. Malacca, Gunong Mering; 
Bukit Sadanen (Derry). Pahang, Tahan River; Kwala Tenok. 
Selangor, common, Ulu Gombak; Ginting Bidai (Kloss). Negri 
Sembilan, Bukit Sulu; Pantai (Cantley). Perak, Relau Tujor 
(Wray); Goping (Kunstler); Thaiping Hills. 
var. hirsuta King. Stem and leaves beneath densely velvety; 
