several times longer than the calyx, while in the plant be- 
fore us the corresponding part is little more than one third 
longer than the calycine leaflets. 
We have omitted the standing synonyms from the works 
of Van Rheede and Rumphius; the Belilla of the former 
from want of likeness in the figure to our plant, as well as 
from want of agreemeut with the description in the text; 
and the Folium Principiss@ of the latter, because it appears 
to be the Mussznpa glabra of Vahl (probably the same with 
corymbosa of Roxburgh MSS.). Burmann’s plant we have 
no doubt belongs to the same species as the subject of this 
article, 
_Frondosa belongs to the Island of Ceylon, where Mus- 
s@NnDA, adopted by Linnzeus for the technical name of the 
genus, is the vernacular one of the species. It is said by 
Dr. Roxburgh to be also native of several other parts of 
India. 
The large white greenish-nerved long-stalked permanent 
leaf into which a leaflet of the calyx of one of the flowers in 
_ each of the three or four primary divisions of every bunch is 
transformed, is so unusual a circumstance, and of such ex- 
traordinary appearance, that it cannot fail to attract the 
notice of the most unpractised observer of plants, and seems 
designed, like the wings of the fruit in the Ash, the Maple, 
the Lime, &e. to assist in the dissemination of the species, 
This part is said by Dr. Roxburgh to be used at table in 
Indie 
The drawing was taken from a plant which flowered last 
summer in Mr. Kent’s hothouse at Clapton. We were also 
favoured with a sample from Mrs. Evelyn of St. Clare, in — 
Kent. — : 
Three distinct species of Muss#npa are now known in 
our gardens; all tall slender shrubs, from the East Indies 
~ and China. 
The present is a largish densely pubescent shrub, with 
upright grey-furred branches. Leaves. wide apart on the 
branches, opposite, ovally lanceolate, taper-pointed, with a 
thicker fur underneath; petiole short, shaggy, with an 
herbaceous upright shaggy stipule on each side. Cymes ter- 
minal, subtrichotomous, subtended by a pair of small leaf- 
lets: peduncles (main flowerstalks) scarcely longer than the 
petioles, round, villous, manyflowered; pedicles exceed- 
ingly short robust oneflowered: bractes similar to the sti- 
pules, pressed to the calyx. 
