Mussaenda pubescens Dryand.

Mussaenda pubescens Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1: 372. 1810
Erect shrub, the branches slender, strigose or strigillose when young; stipules binate, or solitary and cleft, lance-linear to ovate, 3-10 mm. long, sericeous-strigose ; petioles stout, 0.3-1.7 cm. long; leaf-blades ovate, ovate-oblong, elliptic-oblong, or oblong-oval, 4-19 cm. long, 1.3-9 cm. wide, acuminate to attenuate at the base or sometimes obtuse, acute or abruptly acuminate at the apex, bright-green above, strigose-pilose, especially along the veins, or glabrate, the venation prominulous, slightly paler beneath, densely sericeous-strigose along the veins and sparsely so elsewhere, the lateral veins numerous, slender, prominent, arcuateascending; corymbs fewor many-flowered, 4-9 cm. broad, the pedicels very short, stout; bracts linear, elongate; calyx and hypanthium strigose, the hypanthium 3 mm. long, the calyx-lobes 2.5-6 mm. long, linear-attenuate or subulate, erect, one of the lobes often expanded into a white limb, this ovate, oval, or elliptic, 3-9 cm. long, 0.8-4.5 cm. wide, abruptly acuminate, long-petiolate ; corolla 3-4 cm. long, sparsely or densely strigose outside, the tube very slender, the lobes 4-6 mm. long, lance-triangular or ovate, attenuate-acuminate, the throat densely yellow-barbate; fruit subglobose, 6-10 mm. in diameter, sparsely strigose; seeds about 0.7 mm. in diameter, black, lustrous, coarsely favose.
Type locality: China.
Distribution: China; escaped from cultivation in Jamaica and perhaps in Barbados.

Mussaenda pubescens is a plant from the coffee family, Rubiaceae that is found in Indonesia.

The plant grows wild on hillsides, shrubs, and is often cultivated as an ornamental plant. To the Sumatran Malays, this plant is known as daun putri or nusa indah (though the latter name refers to other species). Its twigs, leaves and roots are used as medicine.