Tab. 7916. 

 PSYCHOTRIA capensis. 



Native of South Africa. 



Nat. Ord. Rubiace^.— Tribe Psychotrie^:. 

 Genus Psychotria, Linn. ; (Benth. et Eooh.f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 123.) 



Psychotria (Mapouria) capensis; frutex compactas, paucipedalis, fere undi- 

 que glaber, ramulis teretibus, internodiis foliis multo brevioribus, foliia 

 magnitudine ac circumscriptione variabilibns coriaceis petiolatis oblongis 

 lanceolatis oblanceolatis obovatis ellipticisve cum petiolo interdum 

 elongato usque ad 6-7 poll, longis sed ssepiua 2-4 poll, longis obtusis vel 

 rotundatis basi semper cuneatis margine integerrimia venis inconspicnia, 

 stipulia amplis subcoriaceis ovato-rotundatis intus pnbescentibus brun- 

 neis cito deciduis, floribus fragrantibus luteis pentameris vix semipoll. 

 diametro in cymas parvas densas terminates breviter pedunculatas dis- 

 positis, pedicellis floribus brevioribus parce puberulis, calycis minuti 

 limbo ad annulum fimbrillatum reducto, corollae infundibnlaris tubo 

 sursum leviter dilatato vix 3 lin. longo fauce barbato, limbi lobis ovatis 

 tubo fere dimidio brevioribus vix acutia leviter recurvis, staminibus 

 breviter exsertis, frnctu globoso circiter 2£ lin. diametro 2-spermo, 

 seminibus albumine insigniter ruminato. 



Psycbotria capensis, Vatke in QZster. Bot. Zeitschr. vol. xxv. (1875) 

 p. 230 



Grumilea capensis, Sond. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. vol. iii. p. 21. 



Logania capensis, Eckl. in S. Jfr. Quart. Journ. vol. i. (1830), p. 371. 



Grumilea globosa, Hoclist. in Flora, vol, xxvii. (1844), p. 554. 



As limited in Bentliam and Hooker's " Genera Planta- 

 m m," the genus Psychotria numbers between five and six 

 hundred species, spread over nearly all tropical and sub- 

 tropical regions, including Polynesia ; but other botanists 

 have variously extended and restricted it. The late Dr. 

 Baillon, for instance, reduced {Hist. PL vol. vii. p. 280) 

 Palicourea, Ceph&lia, and several other genera, to it, 

 bringing up the total number of species to upwards of 

 eio-ht hundred. For this unwieldly agglomeration he used 

 the earlier Linnean name Uragoga. Schumann, on the 

 other hand (Engler & Prantl. Naturl Pflanzenf. vol. iv. 

 pp. 111-120) treats Psychotria, Uragoga, Mapouria, 

 Grumilea, &c, as distinct genera. A middle course is, 

 perhaps, the best. Grumilea, as a genus, stands upon the 

 ruminated albumen, which is well developed in the species 

 figured. But the disadvantages of being unable to deter- 



Septembek 1st, 1903. 



