mine the genus in the absence of seeds are obvious, 

 especially where the species are so numerous. 



Psychotria capensis is apparently a common shrub in 

 South-eastern Africa, ranging from Somerset, Bathurst, 

 and Albany northward to Durban and Inanda. The 

 history of its introduction is unknown, but there is a 

 specimen in the Herbarium which flowered at Kew in 

 April, 1858. Mr. W. Watson, the Curator, to whom the 

 Magazine is indebted for much valuable information con- 

 cerning the plants figured, notes that it has been cultivated 

 for many years in the Temperate House, where it flowers 

 freely in spring. Its compact habit and fragrant flowers 

 are its greatest attractions. 



Descr. — A dwarf, compact shrub, glabrous in nearly all 

 parts. Branches terete, with internodes much shorter 

 than the leaves. Leaves very variable in size and outline, 

 coriaceous, petiolate, oblong, lanceolate, oblanceolate, 

 obovate or elliptical, including the sometimes elon- 

 gated petiole six to seven inches long, but usually 

 two to four, obtuse or rounded, always cuneate at 

 the base, quite entire, veins inconspicuous ; stipules 

 large, thick, ovate, or nearly round, hairy within, 

 brown, very deciduous. Flowers sweet-scented, yellow, 

 pentamerous, about half inch across, arranged in small, 

 dense, terminal, shortly-stalked cymes. Pedicels shorter 

 than the flowers, slightly puberulous. Calyx-limb reduced 

 to a fringed rim. Corolla-lube slightly widened upwards, 

 straight, scarcely three lines long, bearded at the top 

 within; lobes ovate, about half as loug as the tube, 

 scarcely acute, slightly recurved. Stamens slightly pro- 

 truded. Style scarcely as long as the stamens. Fruit 

 globose, about one-fifth of an inch in diameter, two-seeded ; 

 seeds having conspicuously ruminated albumen.— W. 

 Hotting Hemsleij. 



Rhoi?;itL *7 ll ' P?'? u ceum; 3 ' n PP er ^-thirds of corolla laid open, 

 f2 attachment of the stamens and the hairy throat ; 4 and 5, anther 

 6, cluster of fruit ; 7, cross section of a fruit and seed -.-all except 6 enlarged 



