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MUSSAENDA frondosa. 
Burmann’s Mussenda. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNTA. am 
Nat. ord. RuBiAcEm. Jussieu gen.196. Div. TV. Fructus monocar- 
pus bilocularis polyspermus. Stam. 5. Fol. opposita, caulis sepé fru- 
tescens. 
MUSSZENDA. Cal. 5-fidus laciniis linearibus. Cor. infundibuliformis, 
tubo longo vix supra dilatato, limbo plano 5-partito. Anth. oblong intra 
tubum subsessiles, non exserte. Caps. ovata membranacea, apice nuda aut 
coronata, 2-locularis polysperma, receptaculo seminifero elevato loculos 
bipartiente; sem. ideo quadrifariam disposita, numerosa minutissima. Frutices 
plerique hirsuti: flores sepé corymbosi, terminales, bracteati; corolla sepe 
extus hirsuta. Hic sola sistenda MussmNDA frondosa Lin. cujus insuper 
lacinia una calycina persistens ceteris deciduis, producta in folium amplum 
petiolatum caulinis conforme sed discolor et 5-7-nerve. Juss. loc. cit. 200. 
M. frondosa, ramis foliisque villosis, tubo corollz pauld longiore laciniis 
calycinis. Dryander in MSS. biblioth. banks. : 
Mussenda frondosa. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2.1.251. Vahl symb. 3. 37. Willd. 
sp. pl. 1.997. Roxburgh MSS. 
Musszenda pubescens. Curtis’s magaz. 2099; (non Dryandri Hort. Kew.) 
Musszenda zeylanica, flore rubro, fructi oblongo, folio ex florum thyrso pro- 
deunte albo, Burm. zeyl. 165. t. 76. 
Frutex altiusculus, villosissimus, ramis teretibus erectis canis remoté 
foliosis. Fol. opposita, ovali-lanceolata acuminata, infra densius villosa; 
petiolo brevi hirsuto, stipula herbaced erectd hirsuté utringue stipato. Cymzx 
terminales, subtrichotome, foliolorum pare subtense: pedunculi via longiores 
petiolis, teretes, villosi, plurtflori ; pedicelli robustt brevissimi v. subnulla 
uniflori: bractex stipulis similes, calyct appresse. Germ. subrotundum 
hirsutum, disco glanduloso glabro umbilicato coronatum. Cal. marginis 
germinis continuus, campanulato-patens; foliola herbacea distincto-distantia, 
subulata hirsuta, vix duplo breviora tubo corolle, decidua, preter unum in 
flore uno cymularum aliquarum primariarum cujusque cyme in folium candi- 
dum petiolatum subviridi-nervosum villosum forma aliorum foliorum at majus 
et nervis 3-5 preditum procrescens. Cor. flava erecta extis villosa; faux pauld 
amplior tubo, intis albo-barbata; limbi laciniw convexissime. Anthere 
_ lineares, fauce demerse. 
Upon referring to Hermann’s Herbarium, the source of 
Mussmnpa frondosa, the samples representing it will be 
found to belong in reality to two species, the present, and 
that which has been proposed by Mr. Dryander in the last 
edition of the Hortus Kewensis, under the name of pu- 
bescens, differing from the one before us in many essential 
points, and remarkably in having the tube of the corolla 
