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Florida. The banks of the river towards tire continent, 
abound in trees and plants common to Florida, with 
orange-groves ; but, towards the fea, the narrow drips of 
land are moftly fand-hills. 
MUSCiCJITON'S, Indians who inhabit near the Outta- 
gainies. 
MUS'ROL, f. [ muferole , Fr.] The nofeband ofahorfe’s 
bridle. 
MUSS, f: [Cotgrave mentions movfche, Fr. “ the play 
called mill's;" wliich fport Brand notices in his Popular 
Antiquities, and cites Dr. Grey as deducing it “ a Mufcho 
inventore.”] A lcramble : 
When I cry'd ho ! 
Like boys unto a mijs, kings would dart forth, 
And cry, Your will ? Shakefpeare's Ant. and Chop. 
The monies rattle not, nor are they thrown 
To make a mvjs yet ’mong the gamefome l'uitors. 
jJ. Jonfon's Slag'ii. Lady. 
MUSSiE'NDA, /! [The vernacular name of the origi¬ 
nal fpecies in the ifland of Ceylon.] In botany, a genus 
of the dais pentandria, order monogynia, natural order 
of contort®,(rubiacete, Jnff.) Generic Characters—Calyx: 
perianthium fuperior, five-parted, unequal ; leaflets li¬ 
near acuminate, permanent. Corolla : one-petalled, fun¬ 
nel-form ; tube long, filiform, hirfute; border five-cleft, 
equal ; fegments ovate. Stamina : filaments five, the 
length of the corolla, growing to the tube on the infide ; 
anther® linear-bridle-ihaped, long, within the tube. 
Pillillum: germ inferior, ovate; ftyle filiform; digmas 
two, fimple, thickiih. Pericarpium : berry oblong, 
crowned. Seeds : numerous, in four parcels.— Effeutial 
Ckaru&er. Corolla funnel-form ; ltigmas two, thickiih ; 
berry oblong, inferior; feeds difpofed in four rows. 
There are eleven fpecies. 
i. Muidenda frondofa, or hairy muflaenda: panicle 
with coloured leaves. This is a large woody climbing 
ihrub, without tendrils or thorns, having many long 
fcattered branches. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, quite en¬ 
tire, wrinkled, lubfeifile, oppoiite. Flow r ers gold-co¬ 
loured, in large fpreading terminating cymes, with large, 
ovate, nerved, very white, petioied, brabies : calyx tubu¬ 
lar ; fegments awl-ihaped, hairy, ereft ; border of the 
corolla fhort; fegments acute, tailed; anther® erect; 
dyle equal to the corolla ; digmas lanceolate, erebt; feeds 
roundilh. According to Gkertner, the berry is inferior, 
ovate-globular, or fubturbinate, with a prominent whitifli 
ring from the remains of the calyx, and within that, 
marked at the top with five minute tubercles, and on 
each fide with an obfeure longitudinal groove, fmooth, 
black, two-celled ; fkin thin, becoming leathery when 
ripe ; pulp watery, finally vanidling. Receptacle an 
ovate fungous lamina, bent like an ox-yoke, and by 
means of another tranfverfe lamina fixed on both fides to 
the middle of the partition, both together forming the 
Burgundian crols, as Rumphius calls it, in the middle 
of the fruit. 
Linnaeus gives Beiilla of Rheede, and Folium princi¬ 
pal®: of Rumphius, as lynonyms to his Muliaenda fron- 
tiofa. The fil'd of thele nas oblong berries and black 
feeds : the fecond has alniod cylindrical berries, exca¬ 
vated on the outfide. Gsertner can fcarcely believe them 
all three to be one and the dune fpecies. Fie is certain, 
however, that his plant is the genuine Muliaenda of the 
Ceylonefe and of Hermann. Vuhl luipebts that Folium 
principal® of Rumphius, rather, is the lame with his 
M uilamda glabra. Loureiro remarks, that the figures and 
deferiptions of Burinann and Rumphius agree in many 
things, but not in all, with his plant, and that they do 
not entirely agree with each oilier; but that the diffe¬ 
rences are rather thole of varieties than lpecies. In the 
Cochinchinele plant he did not oblerve any lined, but 
great beauty in the iinguiur whitenefs of the brabtes 
mixed with the golden flowers; and it is remarkable that 
thele brabtes do not adhere to the pedune'es, but to the 
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fruit. Native of the Ead Indies and Cochinchina, Ota- 
heite and Namoka Mauds in the South Seas. 
?.. Muliaenda glabra, or fmooth mufTamda : branches 
and leaves of the branches and panicle very fmooth. 
Branches round, purplilh dotted with white, fmooth ; 
leaves petioied, three inches long. This appears to be 
quite different from the preceding, in having the leaves 
fmooth on both fides, and not, as in that, hoary under¬ 
neath, with the brabfes and caiycine fegments fmaller 3 
in the lize, confidence, and colour, of the leaf of the pa¬ 
nicle, and in its orange-coloured flowers. Native of the 
Ead Indies. 
3. Mufftenda Chinenfis, or Chiuefe muffxnda: leaves 
111 bundles; flowers folitary. This is a fmall tree, with 
diffufed unarmed branches. Leaves lanceolate, fmooth, 
heaped. Flower terminating, with a berried, five-parted, 
calyx, having lanceolate fegments. Berry ovate, crowned, 
pale, four-celled ; containing many, alniod kidney-form, 
bony, feeds. Native of China, nearCanton. 
4.. Mufltenda pubelcens, or downy muflsenda : branches 
and leaves downy; tube of the corolla many times longer 
than the fegments of the calyx. Native of China; brought 
in 1805 to Kew, where it is kept in the greenhoufe, flower¬ 
ing from May to September. 
5. Muflaenda arcuata, or jafmine-flowered muflsenda : 
leaves elliptical, fmooth ; calyx-teeth linear, nearly equal; 
limb of the corolla externally fmooth ; tube with five 
hairy lines. Native of the ifland of Mauritius : Com- 
merfon met with it cultivated in the gardens of Java. It 
is a nearly fmooth flirub, with elliptical pointed fhining 
leaves. Flowers fragrant, refembling fome of the larger 
fpecies of Jafhiinum ; deferibed by Commerfon as white, 
with a yellow eye. Fruit obovate, fmooth, the fize of a 
fmall goofeberry. An alcending curvature in the bafeof 
the flower-dalks gave occafion to the fpecific name. 
This plant was called Landiaftelligera by Commerfon, in 
compliment to liis friend De la Lande, the adronomer, 
who had no pretenfions to botanical honours. 
6. Muliaenda Landia, or broad-leaved muflsenda: leaves 
broad-ovate, fmooth, with hairy ribs ; calyx-teeth ovate, 
with long recurved points; corolla externally lilky; in¬ 
ternally downy ; its fegments taper-pointed. Native of 
the ifles of Mauritius and Bourbon. Leaves fometimes 
eight inches by four. Footdalks, flowerdalks, and ger¬ 
man, clothed with fcatteved clofe-preifed hairs. Corolla 
probably white; its tube above an inch long, being four 
or five times the length of the calyx, denfely clothed 
with dole fiiky hairs. 
7. Muliaenda holofericea, or fiiky muliaenda: leaves 
ovate, pointed, fiiky beneath : calyx-teeth ovate, acute, 
draight; corolla externally fiiky, internally downy, its 
fegments taper-pointed. Gathered by Commerfon in the 
Iile of Bourbon. The leaves are about four inches or 
more in length, tapering into a long fhatp point; their 
upper furface clothed with minute deprelled fcattered 
hairs; the under finely fiiky; ribs and numerous veins 
on both fides hairy. This is a very handfome ftirub, not 
unlike fome of the fined lpecies of Gardenia. 
8. Muliaenda lanceolata, or lanceolate muliaenda: leaves 
lanceoiate-wedge-fhaped ; flowers oppoiite, racemofe ; ca¬ 
lyx abrupt, with five fmall teeth. Native of the ifland of 
Mauritius. 
9. Muliaenda citrifolia, or citron-leaved mufiasnda : 
leaves three in a whorl, ovate, nearly feflile; calyx-teeth 
long and permanent. -Native of Madagalcar, where it is 
called charm. Fhe flowers are deferibed as cymole, linajl, 
yellow, and very numerous. Leaves coriaceous ; fmooth 
and fltining above; flightly downy beneath. 
jo. Mulfsenda longifolia, or long-leaved mufdenda : 
leaves three in a whorl, crowded, lanceolate, or oolong; 
capfule ribbed, crowned with the calyx. Native of Ma- 
dagafear, where it is called taniba-racha. Said to refem- 
ble the lull, except that its leaves are narrower, and twice 
or thrice as long. 
jj. MufTamda glomeriilata, or tufted-flowered rmrf- 
i’senthi: 
