ees Ee : a, 
Psychotria. | LXXV. RUBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 173- 
petiole stout, nerves 12-14 pair, stipules large rufous, cymes subsessile, flowers- 
crowded, bracts and bracteoles minute, fruit broadly ellipsoid, calyx-limb 
minute. 
Nicopar Istanps; coral-reef forests on the east coast of Katchall, Kurz. 
Stem subsessile, 1-9 ft., very stout, rusty-pubescent. Leaves 6-10 by 2-4 in., 
rather succulent, base acute, brown when dry; petiole very stout, 4-1 in.; stipules 
4-3 in., broadly ovate, 2-fid. Cymes puberulous; branches very short in a flowering 
specimen, long and spreading in fruiting ones; flowers pedicelled, very small. Calyz- 
teeth ovate, acute. Corolla-tube ovoid, throat villous; lobes acute, reflexed. Fruit 
1 in. long, glabrous, pyrenes acutely ribbed.—I have very imperfect materials, and 
depend on Kurz’s character. This describes the albumen as spuriously ruminate, 
alluding, no doubt, to the furrows. 
Sport, IV. Seeds dorsally convex and rounded, not or slightly ridged or 
grooved. 
44. P. calocarpa, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1872, ii. 315; For. Fi. ii. 9; 
subherbaceous, young parts and leaves beneath puberulous with crisped hairs 
finally glabrate, leaves long- or short-petioled lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate 
acuminate often variegated margins entire or broadly crenate, intra-marginal 
nerve conspicuous, stipules large ovate often 2-fid, cymes small axillary and 
terminal shortly peduncled, calyx-teeth slender, fruit ellipsoid or subglobose 
crowned with the calyx-teeth. P. asiatica, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey 
& Wall. ii. 160; Cat. 8331; not of Linn. or of Roxb. P. viridiflora, Reinw. 
var. 2, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 13. P. picta, Wall. Cat. 8353; and Psychotria, 8359. 
Psychotria, 24, 25, 26, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. & T. 
Nieat, Wallich. Srmxrm Himatraya, alt. 2-4000 ft, J. D. H. UPPER Assam; 
Suddya, Griffith. Kasra Mrs., ascending to 4000 ft., De Silva, Ee, Cacuan, Keenan. 
CHITTAGONG, MARTABAN, and TENASSERIM, Gomez, &c. 
A small evergreen subherbaceous bush, 1-3 ft. high, with often a creeping stem 
sending up erect soft branches. Leaves very variable in size and shape, 4-8 by 1-3 
in. dark or pale green when dry, narrowed into a petiole 3-2 in. long, shining or 
opaque above, thinly coriaceous or membranous, nerves sometimes margined with 
white; margin often crenate, the crenatures following the loops of the intramarginal 
nerve; stipules usually ovate or orbicular, and 2-cuspidate, 3-3 in. diam. Cymes 
often secund and drooping, with spreading or reflexed fruiting branches, glabrous or 
pubescent, lax or dense-flowered; bracts lanceolate, caducous or subpersistent ; 
flowers subsessile, pink greenish or white. Calyx-teeth linear, ciliate. Corolla tube 
very short, throat villous. Fruit 4 in. long, succulent, orange or red; pyrenes dor- 
sally obscurely 4-ribbed. Seed with or without a T-shaped ventral groove.—P. 
viridifolia, Reinwdt., referred here by Kurz, is a Grumilea. I have not seen his 
specimens, of which he makes 2 varieties: one with entire leaves and inconspicuous 
ealyx-teeth, the other (from Chittagong) with waved leaves and larger calyx-teeth. 
45. P. Thomsoni, Hook. f.; cymes pubescent, leaves petioled lanceolate 
caudate-acuminate, intra-marginal nerve conspicuous, stipules large 2-cuspidate, 
cymes terminal long-peduncled trichotomous, calyx-teeth triangular. Psy- 
chotria, No. 25, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. $ T. 
Kuasra Mrs., Griffith (Kew Distrib. 3027); Churra, alt. 4000 ft., J. D. H. & T. T. 
Very similar to P. calocarpa in foliage, but quite different in the elongate cyme, 
which is stout erect and with the peduncle 3-4 in. long, and the very short broad 
calyx-teeth. The stipules are 3-1 in. long, orbicular, with two long cusps, and the 
bracteoles are subulate. 
46. P. denticulata, Wail. in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey & Wall. ii. 166 ; 
Cat. 8326; glabrous or leaf-nerves beneath and cymes puberulous, leaves petioled 
large broadly elliptic or obovate or oblanceolate acute or abruptly acuminate, 
