Psychotria. | LXXV. RUBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 169 
Shrubby. Leaves 5-7 by 1-2} in., green when dry, rather thin, base narrowed 
into a petiole 3-3 in., nerves slender; stipules with often 2 recurved acute lobes. 
Cymes 1 in. diam., often inclined; branches flattened, soon dividing; bracts elongate, 
slender. Calyx minute; teeth broad or narrow, subacute, sometimes glandular. 
Corolla-tube very short, hairy within. Fruit i-i in. red and yellowish, grooves 
shallow. Seed undulated on the ventral face.— This is one of the very few species 
that wanders westward as far as the valley of Nipal. 
Var. latifolia; leaves broadly elliptie.—Khasia Mts., De Silva.—Psychotria sp., 
Wall. Cat. 8340. 
Van. pedunculata; cymes axillary, peduncle 1-2 in.—Nipal, Wallich.—Psychotria, 
Wall. Cat. 8369. 
29, P. fulva, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 8336, excl. B.; glabrous or pubescent, 
branches stout, leaves petioled elliptic oblong obovate or lanceolate, stipules 
large cleft, cymes axillary and terminal peduncled or sessile, branches trichoto- 
mous or whorled, flowers usually in dense globose heads, bracts broad often 
whorled persistent, fruit large ellipsoid 8-grooved, calyx-limb persistent. P. 
monticola, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1872, ii. 815; For. Fi. ii. 11. Psychotria, 
Wall. Cat. 8337; Griff. Notul. iv. 268; Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 479, f. 2. 
Assam and the Kunasa Mrs., ascending to 4000 ft.; CacHAR, MuvNNIPORE, and 
Prev. 
A large shrub. Leaves a foot long and under, very variable in breadth, usually 
narrowed into the petiole, rarely rounded at the base, variously coloured when dry, 
often purplish-brown or reddish, thinly coriaceous; nerves slender, spreading, some- 
times pubescent beneath; petiole 3-1 in.; stipules 3-1 in. axils villous, segments 
sometimes hooked and recurved. Cymes large or small, rarely 2 in. across; peduncle 
4 in. or less, pubescent or villous ; branches stout, short or long; bracts and bracteoles 
excessively variable, more or less persistent ; flowers subsessile, glabrous or pubescent. 
Calyx minute; teeth 5, short or long. Corolla-tube short, glabrous, villous within. 
Fruit capitate, }-} in. long, variable in shape, ellipsoid or ovoid, sometimes narrowed 
towards the top; grooves very shallow. Seed flat ventrally, with or without a 2-fid 
groove.—A very variable plant, covered with yellowish flowers in May, whence its 
name, which, never having been published, would be superseded by Kurzs of P. mon- 
ticola, were not the plant to which he gave that name an aberrant form, which is 
moreover erroneously described as glabrous in the Forest Flora; under which cireum- 
stances, and considering that the name monticola has been since applied to a tropieal 
African species, it is advisable to retain Hamilton's appropriate one of fulva for this 
species. 
Van. monticola; leaves more coriaceous, nerves distant pubescent beneath. P. 
monticola, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1872, ii. 315; For. Fl. ii. 11.—Karen hills, 
Kurz. 
30. P. tortilis, Blume Bijd. 958; subherbaceous, stem simple, leaves 
long-petioled broadly elliptic-ovate acute membranous puberulous beneath, base 
cuneate rarely cordate, nerves 15-20 pair, veins reticulate, cymes all axillary 
small subsessile rounded, fruit very small didymous compressed, grooves 8 very 
shallow. DC. Prodr. iv. 520. P. microcarpa, Wall. Cat. 8844. — Streblosa 
tortilis, Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. ii. 246. 
Penanc, Wallich; SixaAronE, Lobb.—Disrrin. Java, Sumatra. 
Stem 1 foot from a woody base, sparsely pubescent. Leaves 4-7 by 2-44 in., green 
when dry, very membranous; nerves spreading, slender ; petiole very slender, 1-2 in. ; 
stipules ovate, acute, or broader with a long cusp. Cymes often from all the axils, 
pese contracted and dense-flowered but not capitate; pedicels rarely 1-2 in.; 
racts very small; flowers minute. Calya-teeth very minute, triangular. Corolla-tube 
very short, hairy within. Fruit d-s in. diam., broader than long, pale. Seed flat 
on the ventral face.—A very peculiar species, quite unlike any other in habit and 
fruit. 
