Psychotria. | LXX, RUBIACEE (HIERN). ‘ 199 
at the base, glabrous, chartaceous, rather paler beneath, 24-31 by 
#-1 in., margins revolute; petiole 3-+ in., hispidulous ; stipules 
z-3 in. long, from an ovate or lanceolate base, shortly hairy at the 
back, terminating in 2 setaceous points. Flowers pentamerous, 4 in. 
long, on slender pedicels, several, forming terminal corymbose or 
hemispherical panicles of 4-2 in. diam.; common peduncle 4 in., very 
slender ; bracts minute or obsolete. Calyx green; limb small; teeth 
short. Corolla white; tube funnel-shaped, straight; throat bearded. 
Anthers included. Style short, bifid. Young fruit oblique. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann! 
10. P. umbellata, Thonning in Schum. Beskr. Guin. Pl. p. 109, non 
Arrab. A much branched shrub; branches alternately compressed, gla- 
brous. Leaves lanceolate, shining, scarcely petiolate, 2-4 in. long, almost 
without veins, shining; stipules acuminate, bidentate at the apex, de- 
ciduous. Peduncles axillary, angular, 2 in. long, brachiate-trifid ; 
pedicels of each branch clustered at the apex in a little umbel. 
Calyx-limb obsoletely 5-toothed. Corolla tubular-campanulate, whitish ; 
tube pubescent inside, qiz in. long; limb 5-cleft, lobes ovate, acute, 
reflexed, half as long as the tube. Filaments 5, inserted at the mouth 
of the corolla-tube, equalling the corolla, erect ; anthers oblong, white. 
Ovary very small; style filiform, a little longer than the corolla-tube ; 
stigma rather thick, blunt, bifid. Fruit globose, crowned with the 
remains of the calyx-limb, red, shining, size of a currant. Seeds 2, 
emispherical. 
Upper Guinea. Guinea, about Adah, not very common, Thonning. 
The description is taken from Thonning ; I have seen nc specimen. 
Jl. P. monticola, Hiern. A small tree, about 15 feet high, not 
quite glabrous. Branches terete, towards the tips somewhat compressed 
and leafy. Leaves elliptical, narrowed at both ends, acute or narrowly 
’cuminate, chartaceous, slightly hairy beneath along the midrib or at 
the forks of the 9-10 pairs of clearly marked lateral veins, 6-8} by 
37 in., margins narrowly revolute ; petiole 2-14 in.; stipules lan- 
Ceolate, bifid, thickened at the back over the lower half with a reddish 
ity boss, nearly 4 in. long. Flowers about 2 in. long or rather less, 
on short pedicels (elongated in fruit), several together, in divaricately 
branched rather lax pedunculate ebracteolate rounded glabrous panicles 
lin. or more diam. increasing to about 34 in. diam. in fruit; com- 
700 peduncle 1-3 in. diam. Calyx hemispherical, yy in. diam. ; limb 
snger than the ovary, subtruncate. Corolla 6-lobed. Anthers included. 
tyle bifid. Fruit (immature) ovoid, 4 in. long, faintly ribbed. 
Upper Guinea. Island of St. Thomas, at the summit of the peak, Mann / 
12. P. ealva, Hiern. A quite glabrous smooth shining shrub, 
ometimes ciliate or downy. 
about 10 feet high; the youngest parts s 
seuches terete, ‘towards ‘the oxtremities compressed, nodes rather 
the hac Leaves oval, shortly narrowed at the apex, wedge-shaped at 
2 bene, thinly coriaceous, 3-8 by 14-3 in., lateral veins about 7-8 
Palrs; margins recurved ; petiole 4-1§ in.; stipules ovate, apiculate, 
