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.