152 MISS Г. 8. GIBBS: A CONTRIBUTION TO 
Shrub to small tree 13 m. high, with large glabrous leaves, aggregated 
towards the ends of the branches. The very caducous corollas are white, 
and the fruit is yellow. 
PSYCHOTRIA SULPHUREA, Seem. Fl. Vit. 134. 
Nadarivatu, 2700, scandent in forest, general. Fl. Sept. 660, 542, 813 bis. 
Distrib. Fiji (Ovalau). 
Described by Seemann from Storck's specimen as “а decumbent shrub,” 
this charming species is very common in the forest as a stem-twining liane. 
The leaves are dark green and herbaceous, the small flowers are white, borne 
profusely in large cymose panicles. Though very general at Nadarivatu and 
the surrounding country, it has only been collected by Horne since Storck's 
original discovery of the plant. 
PSYCHOTRIA PLATYCOCCA, А. Gray, in Proc. Am. Acad. iv. (1860) 47. 
Nadarivatu, 2700, mixed forest. Fl. Aug. 596, 
Distrib. Fiji (Viti Levu). 
A small tree with glabrous, herbaceous, light green leaves and small white 
flowers in axillary racemes. Mr. Spencer Moore, who kindly determined the 
Psychotria sp., adds :—“ Seems to me nearest P. platycocca, A. Gray, but the 
leaves are smaller and less coriaceous, though subrotundate at the base like 
those of P. platycocca, of which there is no authentic specimen of the flowers 
in this country." 
Psycuorria Сиввзтж, 5. Moore, sp. nov. 
Frutex vel arbuscula, ramulis ultimis crebre foliosis, cortice plus minus albido 
cireumdatis, nodis ferrugineo-pubescentibus, novellis glabris ; foliis petiolatis, 
oblongo-lanceolatis vel anguste obovato-oblongis, sursum cuspidato-attenuatis, 
apice acutiusculis, basi obtusis, tenuiter coriaceis glabris, costis secundariis 
utrinque 7-10 ad angulum fere rectum costæ centrali insertis levissime 
arcuatis ; stipulis caducis, basi latis ubi conjunctis bipartitis, segmentis lineari- 
lanceolatis acuminatis ; cymis terminalibus foliis brevioribus sublaxe paucifloris 
griseo-puberulis, pedicellis sæpius calyce brevioribus rarissime calycem sub- 
æquantibus; floribus pentameris ; ovario subhemisphærico, puberulo ; calycis 
diutule persistentis puberuli limbo ovarium longe excedente campanulato, lobis 
deltoideo-ovatis obtusiuseulis quam tubus plane brevioribus ; corollæ griseo- 
pubescentes, tubo calycem excedente a basi sensim leviterque ampliato, lobis 
oblongis obtusis tubo brevioribus; staminibus paullo infra fauces affixis 
inclusis ; stylo exserto minute puberulo. 
Hab. Nadarivatu, 2700, edge of N.W. escarpment, Sept. 664, 734. 
Folia solemniter 4-8 em. longa, 1:5-3:3 em. lata, viva nitida, in sicco 
оНуасео-Ёазса ; petioli 3-5 mm. long.  Stipularum basi persistentum 
vagina 3 mm., segmenta 5 mm. longa, margine ciliolata. Суше 2 x 1:5-2 сш. 
