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Peduncle usually less than s cm. long, and finely 



pubescent 689. Psychotria pubescens. 



Peduncle more than 5 cm. long, glabrous or almost so. 



692. Psychotria Sauvallei. 

 Corolla swollen at the base on one side (Palicourea). 

 Panicle pyramidal, widely spreading, glabrous. 



693. Palicourea crocea. 

 Panicle narrowly contracted, rather densely glandular- 



puberulent 694. Palicourea elongata. 



Ovary i-loculed, septa thin; stipules rounded, shorter than their 



elongated awn 695. Faramea occidentalis. 



Ovule or seed attached to the lateral wall of the carpel. 



Shrubs or trees; stipules undivided; fruit a fleshy syncarp. 



696. Morinda Roioc. 

 Herbs, the stipules divided or laciniate. 



Fruit separating into indehiscent carpels with firm walls. 

 Leaves ciliate, 1.5-3 cm. long. 



Stem strongly angled, very soon glabrous. 



697. Diodia rigida. 

 Stem less strongly angled, whitish pilose. 



698. Diodia ciliata. 

 Leaves little or not at all ciliate; stem glabrous. 



699. Diodia arenicola. 

 The carpel walls breaking open at maturity. 



Capsule septicidal, both carpels ventrally dehiscent 

 {Borreria). 

 Leaves lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, up to i cm. 

 wide by 2.5-4 cm. long. 

 Calyx-teeth about as long as the fruit. 



702. Borreria ocimoides. 

 Calyx-teeth minute, much shorter than the fruit. 



701. Borreria IcBvis. 

 Leaves smaller and linear or quite narrow. 



Flowers in dense terminal heads up to 7-9 mm. in 



diameter 700. Borreria podocephala. 



Flowers in smaller heads, up to 5 or 6 mm. in 



diameter 704. Borreria pygmcea. 



Flowers subsolitary, axillary. 



703. Borreria slrumpfioides. 

 Capsule splitting around the middle (circumscissile), the 

 upper part falling away. 



705. Mitracarpum depauperatum. 



666. Oldenlandia herbacea DeCandolle. 



Hedyotis commutata Schultes, Mantissa ad Systema Vegetabilium, III, 1827, 

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