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Psychotria. | Lxxy. RUBIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 175 
SPECIES OF WHICH THE FRUIT IS UNKNOWN, 
49. P. polyneura, Kurz in Lond. Journ. Bot. 1875, 327; For. Fl. ii. 
11, not of DC.; all parts except the leaves above ferruginous-pubescent or 
-tomentose, leaves very large long-petioled broadly or narrowly elliptic acute 
at both ends, nerves 30 pair close-set and spreading, stipules very large, cymes 
terminal small subsessile trichotomous ebracteolate, flowers sessile crowded. 
Sourn ANDAMAN IsraND, Kurz. 
Branches stout. Leaves 7-12 by 34-5} in., membranous, red-brown when dry, 
nerves slender; petiole 2-23 in.; stipules $ in. broadly ovate, connate, entire or cleft 
at the top. Cymes densely tomentose, 2-3 in. diam., branches spreading; flowers 
small. Calyx minutely 5-toothed.  Corolla-tube very short.—Habit a good deal of 
P. Helferiana, but less hirsute, with fewer nerves, and wanting the bracteoles. 
50. P. penangensis, Hook. f.; scandent, glabrous, leaves rhombic- 
elliptie or -obovate abruptly acuminate narrowed into the petiole, nerves very 
obscure, cymes terminal long-peduncled, branches umbellate, flowers pedicelled 
_umbellate, bracts and bracteoles persistent. 
Penane; top of Government Hill, Maingay. 
Dark brown or blackish when dry, apparently rather fleshy when fresh. Leaves 
4—5 by 14-24 in., thin when dry, nerves 6-8 pair, very spreading and arched ; petiole 
1.1 in.; stipules rounded, connate, persistent. Cymes with a very stout erect peduncle 
2-3 in.; primary branches about 5, stout, 2-13 in.; bracts 4 in., subulate; umbel- 
lules 4 in. diam., very many-flowered ; pedicels x in. braeteoles subulate. Calyx- 
tube obconic; teeth triangular, glabrous or puberulous.  Corolla-tube broad, much 
longer than the calyx, hoary; throat hirsute. Fruit (unripe) stoutly pedicelled, 4—4 
in. long, narrowly ellipsoid, furrowed, crowned by the calyx-teeth. 
5l. P. Johnsoni, Hook. f., glabrous, leaves obovate or elliptic-obo- 
vate or oblanceolate acute or abruptly acuminate tapering into a very short 
petiole, nerves 6-10 pair very slender, cymes terminal sessile or subsessile very 
small short ovoid or subglobose dense-flowered ebracteolate villous at the base, 
flowers sessile. Psychotria, Wall. Cat, 8352. 
Western PENINSULA; Cochin, Wight (Kew Distrib. 1442), Johnson. 
Branches stout, smooth, terete, pale. Leaves 3-5 by 14-2 in., pale when dry, 
rather coriaceous, nerves finely reticulate; stipules ovate, acute or rounded and cus- 
pidate, coriaceous, glabrous. Cymes very rarely effuse and 1} in. diam.; peduncle 0 
or short, arising out of long villous hairs; branches stout, short, opposite; flowers 
subternate, very small, glabrous. Corolla very shortly funnel-shaped, throat villous. 
—A very distinct species, of which I have seen no fruit. 
52. P. nudiflora, W. $ A. Prodr. 434; glabrous, leaves obovate cuneate- 
obovate or oblanceolate abruptly acuminate narrowed into the petiole, nerves 
12-15 pair very slender, stipules connate ovate obtuse, cymes peduncled sub- 
capitate or shortly panicled ebracteolate, calyx-limb truncate, corolla-tube 
elongate cylindric. Psychotria, Wall. Cat. 8346. 
Travancore, Heyne; Courtallam, Wight. 
Branches smooth. Leaves 4-7 by 1-2} in. brown or greenish when dry, thin; 
nerves hardly stronger than the veins, very spreading; petiole 1-2 in.; stipules 1—3 
in., coriaceous, broad, obtuse. Cyme-peduncle 1 in. and less; branches opposite sub- 
opposite and obscurely whorled, very stout, short, irregularly dichotomously divided ; 
flowers nearly 4 in. long. Calyx very short, limb quite entire. Corolla the longest 
of the Indian species, 4-lobed, glabrous without and within.—Wight labels this 
Grumilea, but there is no fruit advanced enough to determine this point. 
à DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES, 
P. WarricHiANA, DC. Prodr, iv. 520. P. nervosa, Don Prodr. 137; “leaves oval 
