Musscsnda.] 
LXXIV. RUBIACExE. 
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nerves hairy above. Johor, Gunong Pantai; Tebing Thiggi, 
Malacca, Ayer Panas (Derry). Tringganu, Bundi (Rostados). 
var. montana Ridl. A dwarf compact form with small leaves, 
Malacca, Mt. Ophir on Padang Batu. Native names : Akar Bunga, 
Bintang Kuning, or Merah; Chempaka hutan; x\kar Supucha; 
Poko Pudin Blachan; Poko Broah hutan (Tringganu); Balik 
Adap Bukit. 
One of the finest shrubs in the peninsula, the brilliant flowers like a 
scarlet or yellow star. 
(2) M. spectabilis Ridl. 
Hairy shrub. Leaves chartaceous, ovate oblong, base round or 
cuneate, acute cuspidate, glabrous above except midrib, beneath 
sprinkled with short hairs, midrib and nerves fine 10 pairs appressed 
hairy, 5 to 6 in. long, 3 in. wide. Cymes terminal, densely hairy. 
Calyx-lobes lanceolate-acuminate sub-falcate, 1 in. long, hairy, 
1 in. across. Corolla-tube as long, dense hairy; limb 2*25 in. 
across, pubescent on the back, mouth with short dense yellow 
hairs. Hab. Pulau Tiuman (C. B. Kloss). 
Allied to M. mutabilis var. hirsuta, but the calyx-lobes much larger and 
the corolla-lobes larger and as long as the tube. Flowers apparently red 
or yellow. 
(3) M. Wrayi King, lx. 182. 
Shrub more or less scandent, entirely covered with stiff white 
hairs. Leaves elliptic or nearly obovate, long narrowed to the 
base; nerves 9 to 14 pairs; 4 to 8 in. long, 1-75 to 4 in. wide; 
petioles *4 to -75 in. long. Stipules lanceolate-acuminate. Cymes 
terminal dense, 1 to 2 in. long, 2 to 3 in. wide; peduncles under 
1 in. long. Calyx funnel-shaped, -5 to 7 in. long, one lobe enlarged 
narrow-elliptic or oblanceolate acute, hairy especially on edge, 
1*5 in- l°ng, 75 in. wide. Corolla red, pilose, little longer than 
calyx. Fruit oblong-ovoid, sparsely pilose. Hab. Mountain forests, 
Selangor, Ulu Gombak. Perak, Thaiping Hills; Ayer Larut 
(Wray); Kwala Dipang (Curtis). Penang, Pulau Jerajah (Curtis). 
(4) M. malaccensis Ridl. 
Branches red-hairy. Leaves broad elliptic narrowed to the 
base, sparsely hairy above, hairy on the nerves beneath; nerves 
10 pairs elevate beneath; 4 to 5 in. long, 3 in. wide; petioles -5 in. 
long. Stipules lanceolate-acuminate, *3 in. long, red-hairy especially 
at the base. Cymes in upper axils 2 in. long, hairy. Ovary -15 in. 
long, densely hairy. Calyx-lobes lanceolate-acuminate, -25 in. long, 
•12 in. wide, hairy, 5-nerved, enlarged one obovate narrowed to the 
base, 3-5 in. long, 2-25 in. wide; petioles 1 in. long, 5-nerved; 
nerves hairy. Corolla not seen. Fruit -3 in. long, sparsely hairy. 
Hab. Malacca (Maingay 8352). 
This has been by King referred to M. macrophylla Wall., a Himalayan 
species with very different foliage and much broader and larger calyx-lobes. 
It seems to me quite distinct from that or any other species. 
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