whether Coussarea and Faramea (which has a very thin 
dissepiment) should not be included under Psychotria. The 
stipules of P. jasminiflora are quite those of the latter genus, 
being united into an intrapetiolar tube, and bearing simple 
or branched bristles on the back or margin, which are 
sometimes caducous. 
P. jasminiflora was discovered by Libon in the province 
of St. Catherine, in South Brazil, in 1860, and introduced 
by Mr. Linden; and the specimen here figured was flowered 
in Messrs. Williams’s Nursery in May of the present year. 
Descr. A nearly glabrous shrub, except the corolla, with 
white bark. Leaves shortly petioled, three inches long and 
under, oblong-ovate, acute, coriaceous, evergreen, bright 
green above, pale beneath with obscure nerves; base acute 
or cordate; petiole an eighth of an inch long. Stipules 
united into a short intrapetiolar sheath, with several rigid 
bristles from their back or margins, which are often 
branched and deciduous. Inflorescence of trichotomous 
cymes shorter than the leaves; peduncle flattened, terminal, 
rarely axillary, glabrous; partial ones almost obcuneate ; 
pedicels 3-nate, short, flattened; bracteoles appressed to 
the calyx, short, toothed. Calya-tube short, limb dilated, 
cupular, obtusely unequally 4-toothed or lobed. Corolla 
snow-white, one to one and a quarter inch long, externally 
softly villous or tomentose; tube slender, slightly dilated 
above the middle; lobes one-fourth the length of the tube, 
oblong, obtuse, valvate. Stamens inserted half-way down 
the tube, filaments slender glabrous, exserted; anthers 
small, broadly oblong. Disk annular, erect. Style slender, 
stigmatic arms subulate, hairy. Ovary 2-celled, with a 
thick septum; ovules solitary in each cell, basal, erect, 
oblong.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, upper portion of corolla laid open, and stamens; 3, lower part 
of corolla and ovary cut longitudinally; 4 and 5, anthers; 6, tip of style and 
stigmas :—all enlarged. ; 
