168 LXXV. RUBIACEM. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Psychotria, 
in., rather thin, red-brown when dry and shining above, midrib and nerves slender ; 
‘base narrowed into the slender petiole; stipules oblong-ovate, deciduous. Cymes 3—4 
in broad; branches angled, sometimes obscurely puberulous, divaricate, much 3- 
chotomously divided; flowers pedicelled, minute. Calyx truncate, teeth obscure. 
Corolla-tube very short, glabrous, villous within. Fruit -+ in. long, areolate, calyx- 
teeth very obscure. Seeds of the section, ventral face plane.—A near ally of the 
Chinese P. elliptica, Ker in Bot. Reg. t. 607 (P. Reevesii, Wall. Cat. 8330, and in 
Roxb, Fl. Ind. ii. 164), but more slender, leaves less coriaceous, with slender midrib 
and nerves, and smaller flowers. 
95. P. divergens, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 13; and in Journ, As. Soc, 1877, ii. 
143, not of Blume; glabrous, leaves lanceolate to linear-lanceolate acuminate 
tapering into a long petiole, cymes long-peduncled trichotomous, flowers shortly 
pedicelled, calyx-teeth obsolete, fruit ovoid 5-ribbed and furrowed crowned by 
the calyx-limb. 
Prev, MALABAR, and TENASSERIM, in tropical forests, Kurz. 
An evergreen shrub, 13-2 ft. Leaves 5-8 in., firmly membranous or thinly coria- 
ceóus, usually brownish when dry; petiole 3-1 in.; stipules variable, often very large 
and elongate, entire or 2-cleft. Flowers greenish. Corolla j;-à in., lobes as long, 
throat villous. Fruit 3-1 in. long, smooth. Albumen equable, spuriously ruminate, 
or rather 5-ribbed.—I have seen no authentic specimen, and take the description from 
Kurz, who says that it differs from P. andamanica only in the glabrous cymes. It 
cannot be Blume’s P. divergens, which has a prominently toothed calyx and very large 
flowers; it is probably a glabrous form of P. sulcata. 
26. P. andamanica, Kurz in Lond. Journ. Bot, 1875, 328; For. Fl ii. 
13; glabrous except the cymes, leaves long-petioled elliptic-obovate or -lanceolate 
caudate-acuminate, nerves 8-10 pair remote, cymes subsessile much trichoto- 
mously branched, fruit ellipsoid 8-grooved. 
ANDAMAN and Nicopar IsrANDs, Kurz. 
A small evergreen shrub; branches stout, pale, the wood shrinking in drying. 
Leaves 6-9 by 21-334 in., membranous, greenish-brown when dry, often subfaleate ; 
nerves slender, arched; base narrowed into the 1-2 in. long petiolé; stipules large, 
oblong, 2-cleft, deciduous. Cymes glabrous or rusty-puberulous, 3 in. diam., branches 
divaricate; flowers shortly pedicelled, greenish-white. Calyx almost truncate; teeth 
short, broad. Corolla glabrous, tube 45 in. much exserted, throat villous. Fruit 1 
in. long, smooth, calyx-limb persistent.—I have seen no fruit, nor any Andaman 
specimens; it is probably a broad-leaved form of the following. 
27. P. sulcata, Wall. Cat. 8370; leaves long-petioled elliptic-lanceolate 
or oblanceolate acuminate membranous puberulous or glabrate beneath, nerves 
10-15 pair, stipules very large lax, cymes axillary or terminal sessile or peduncled 
— Ü trichotomously divided, fruit pedicelled broadly ellipsoid 8-grooved, 
calyx very small. 
TENASSERM, MaLapar, and Birra, Wallich, Helfer, &c. 
Branches rather slender, smooth. Leaves 3-9 by 2-23 in., greenish or brown when 
dry, nerves slender, base narrowed into a petiole 3-13 in. long; stipules j-$ in., 
straight or faleate, obtuse acute or acuminate, rather persistent for the genus. Cymes 
small, 1-23 in. diam. ; branches divaricate; bracts triangular; flowers very small, 
glabrous. Calyz-limb truncate. Corolla-tube glabrous, very short. Fruit 3 in. long, 
grooves not deep. Seed flat on the ventral face. 
28. P. erratica, Hook. f., glabrous, leaves lanceolate or elliptic acumi- 
nate, petiole slender, nerves 9-12 pair, stipules usually cleft, cymes axillary and 
terminal sessile glabrous or puberulous rather shortly trichotomously branched, 
fruit pedicelled 8-grooved, calyx-limb small. 
Nipay and Srxxrmm HiMALAYXA, alt. 4-6000 ft., J. D. H., &c.; Buoran, alt. 6000 
ft, C. B. Clarke; Kuasia Mrs., alt. 4—5000 ft., Griffith, &c. 
