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one side- Calyx superior, tubular, 9-3 cleft. Corolla white, 

 tubular/ upper part of the tube villous within; exterior limb 

 membranaceous, 3-partite, segments nearly equal; imcrior 

 limb unilabiate, lip broader above, rounded, thickened, and 

 yellow in the middle. Filament of the stamen broad, incum- 

 bent. Anther short, thick, 2-lobed, crowned with an erect, 

 8«lobed crest. Style filiform. Stigma infundibulfform. 

 Nectaries 2, linear, at the base of the style. Ovary 3-celIed, 

 many-seeded. 



(This approaches to A, Cardamomum^ but differs from it in 



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various points. Jack speaks of no process of the filament. 

 WaUicL) 



PSYCHOTRIA MALAY ANA. W. J. 



Pentandria Monogynia. Nat. Ord. RuBiACEiE. 



P. malayana ; foliis lato-lanceolatis, stipulis indivisis, panicu- 

 lis terminalibus corymbosis, corolla; fauce villosa. 



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Byumbada. Malay. 



(P. aurantiaca. Wall, in Roxh. FL Ind. v. 2. p. 165. et inter 

 addend, p. m^.— Wallich.) 



Native of Pulo Penang.— A shrub with round, smooth 

 branches. Leaves petiolate, opposite, broadly-lanceolate, 10 

 inches long, acuminate, decurrent upon the petiole, entire, 

 very smooth. Petioles short, thick, round, surrounded at 

 the base by a prominent ring, from which a thick rib diverges 

 on each side, and unites with a similar one from the base of 

 the opposite leaf to form the nerve of the large, interpetiolar, 

 ovate, acute stipule. Panicles corymbose, terminal. Fhwers 

 numerous. Bracteas broad, membranaceous, embracing. 

 ^oiyx superior, erect, 5-fid. Corolla white, with greenish 

 ^»w*, infundibuliform, longer than the calyx, mouth closed 

 ^ith dense white hairs, limb 5-parted, somewhat reflexed. 



Pacini® ovate. 



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^ents very short ; anthers linear. Style filiform ; stigmas 2, 

 thick and linear. Capsule inferior, 2-celled, 2-seeded. 



