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Psychotria. | LXXV. RUBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 167 
** Erect shrubs. 
21. P. Wightiana, Thw. Enum. 148 (Grumilea); branches leaves be- 
neath and cymes villous with rufous hairs, leaves elliptic-lanceolate finely 
acuminate, nerves 8-10 pair, cymes terminal cruciately brachiate, branches few 
naked with terminal globose heads of sessile flowers or cymes reduced to a soli- 
tary long peduncled or sessile globose head.  Lasianthus ? dubius, Wight in 
Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 516. 
Cryton ; Ambagamowa and Saffragan districts, on banks of streams, Walker, Ee, 
A small shrub, branches stout. Leaves 5-7 by 2-8} in., rather coriaceous, brownish 
green when dry, smooth and opaque above, nerves strong beneath; petiole 1-4 in.; 
stipules oblong, connate, villous. Cymes densely villous, sessile or peduncled ; branches 
and peduncle stout, the latter sometimes deflexed; bracteoles minute, obtuse; heads 
of sessile flowers dense, villous, 1-3 in. diam. Calyx very short, cupular, limb trun- 
cate, teeth triangular. Corolla-tube very short, pubescent; throat hairy. Fruit 
“ subspherical, hairy, 1-4 in. diam., subcarinate," Thwaites. 
Var.? affinis; leaves sparsely hairy narrowly elliptic-lanceolate 4 by 4-4 in. 
Grumilea affinis, Thw. Enum. 148. 
22. P. madraspatana, Hook. f.; petioles leaves beneath and inflores- 
cence rusty-tomentose, leaves large long-petioled elliptic or elliptic-obovate 
obtuse or subacute, nerves 20-30 pair, cymes reduced to a globose sessile head, 
fruit ellipsoid and grooved, calyx-limb very short. Psychotria, Wall. Cat. 
8366. 
* Hers. Mapnas," Wallich. 
Branches very stout, woody, covered with brown shining bark, tips pubescent with 
spreading hairs. Leaves 6-12 by 21-4 in., thinly coriaceous beneath, finely pubescent 
between the rufous-tomentose numerous slender nerves; base narrowed into a 13 in. 
petiole; stipules connate, villous, membranous. Head 1 in. diam., terminating the 
stout branch, and in one specimen covering the bases of the pair of petioles, densely 
rufous-pubescent ; bracts and bracteoles numerous, as long as the flowers, linear or 
oblong, membranous, villous, persistent, outer broader. Calya-tube shorter than the 
5 unequal lanceolate villous lobes. Corolla not seen. Fruit à in. long, villous, 
crowned by the lanceolate calyx-lobes. Seed with very deep dorsal and 2 narrow 
ventral grooves.—In habit and appearance this resembles P. Wightiana and Helferiana, 
but differs entirely from both; I have seen no specimen but that in Wallich’s Her- 
barium, 
23. P. stipulacea, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey § Wail. ii. 164; 
Cat, 8329 ; very robust, glabrous, leaves very long oblanceolate or obovate-oblong 
acuminate narrowed into the very stout winged petiole, nerves about 20 pair, 
cymes trichotomous, peduncle and branches very stout, flowers pedicelled, fruit 
ellipsoid deeply 4-grooved. DC. Prodr. iv. 519. 
Drago, Jack, Phillips, Wallich. 
Branches as thick as the middle finger, soft, compressed, and foliage reddish brown 
when dry. Leaves 8-14 by 3-5 in., not coriaceous, nerves slender; petiole 1-1} in. ; 
stipules }—3 in. long, broadly ovate, acute, often 2-fid. Cymes 2-3 in. diam., broader 
than long; peduncle and branches very stout; bracts and bracteoles triangular, upper 
persistent; flowers very small. Calyx-teeth short, triangular. Corolla-tube 3, in., 
glabrous, villous within. Fruit 4 in. long, grooves deep; calyx-limb small. Seed 
ventrally concave. j 
24. P. Jackii, Hook. f.; glabrous, leaves petioled elliptic or obovate- 
lanceolate obtusely acuminate, nerves 10-12 pair, cymes shortly peduncled 
brachiate, branches slender, fruit pedicelled 8-grooved. Psychotria, Wall. Cat. 
8343. 
Prnanc, Jack, Wallich; Maracca, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 3021). 
Branches slender, polished, nodes with broad stipular scars. Leaves 5-7 by 14-24 
