484- RUBIACEÆ. PsycHOTRIA. 
size of the bracteas and bracteoles are scarcely sufficient to remove them to 
Cephelis. 
1335. (5) P.? bracteata (W.'& A.:) shrubby, erect, glabrous: leaves some- 
what shortly petioled, oblong-obovate, with a sudden short point, DK 
yellowish on being dried, uppermost ones oval; axils with a tuft of longis 
hair: stipules oblong-oval, caducous: corymb terminal, long-peduncled ; 
primary rays and lowest ones of the central primary ray in fives, subtended 
by four bracteas ; the other rays in threes and subtended by two bracteas: 
bracteas all broadly obovate, obtuse or emarginate, connate at the base: flow- 
ers aggregated at the extremities of the secondary rays, surrounded by and 
intermixed with several large roundish bracteas: calyx-limb 5-cleft; lobes 
roundish, emarginate, the edges overlapping: tube of the corolla a little 
longer than the calyx-limb, much bearded in the throat : anthers oblong, ses- 
sile, slightly exserted : stigma scarcely exserted, short and thick, bilamellate. 
— Wight ! cat. n. 1348. 
Of this we have not seen the fruit. 
1336. (6) P. bisuleata (W. & A.:) shrubby, diffuse, glabrous: leaves with a 
short petiole slightly dilated at the base, oblong-lanceolate, tapering at the 
base : stipules triangular-acuminated, caducous: corymb terminal, peduneled, 
small, few-flowered, trichotomous or with the primary rays in fives, with 
minute acute bracteas subtending the ramifications: calyx-limb 5-lobed ; 
lobes roundish-ovate: tube of the corolla bearded in the throat, about twice 
the length of the calyx-limb: filaments exserted ; anthers oblong : stigma 
nearly included, short and thick, bipartite : berry ovate, 4-furrowed by dry- 
ing: seed and albumen flat on the inner side, with two deep dorsal furrows 
and an intermediate broad blunt ridge.— Wight ! cat. n. 1351. 
1337. (7) P.? vaginans (DC.:) shrubby, erect, glabrous: leaves obovate- 
oblong or oval, shortly pointed, attenuated at the base : stipules intrafoliace- 
ous, at length 2-toothed, combined into a sheathing 2-cleft tube: corymb 
terminal, peduncled, with or without a pair of small leaves at its base, pani- 
Ai kapad “shaped, trichotomous, puberulous, with oblong acuminated toothed small 
bracteas subtending all the divisions : calyx-limb broadly cup-shaped, trun- 
cated and shortly 5-toothed: tube of the corolla slightly longer than the ca- 
lyx-limb, | y in the throat : anthers nearly sessile, exserted, oblong-linear: 
p slightly ; stigma thickish, short, 2-partite, segments recurved.— 
W prod. 4. p. 520 ; Wight ! cat. n. 1352.—Ophioxylon arboreum, Koen. 
We have not seen the fruit, so that it may prove to be a species of Gru- 
milea. Our specimens are from Klein's herbarium, marked “ Bentodi, March 
16. 1796.” We follow De Candolle in supposing the panicle to be pedun- 
cled; for, although it at first often appears to be sessile, on account of the 
two leaves at its base, yet the stipules to these leaves are of a different shape 
from those below. ; 
1338. (8) P.? nudiflora (W. & A.:) shrubby, glabrous: young shoots com- 
pressed : stipules ovate, acute, deciduous : leaves petioled, aaeoa R i 
shortly pointed, tapering much at the base, shining on both sides: co 
terminal, longish-peduncled, small, ovate, without bracteas or bracteoles ; 
primary rays in fives, short, the others trichotomous : calyx-limb short, trun- 
cated, iine: d 4-toothed : tube of the corolla somewhat campanulate, ~ 
times the length of the calyx-limb, glabrous on the inside ; lobes 4: stamer 
4; filaments very short; anthers oval, exserted: style glabrous, perforating, 
the thick obscurely 4-lobed disk, exserted ; divisions of the stigma thick, 
. Spreading.— Wight! cat. n. 1354. ‘i 
_ We do not know that Dr Wallich has taken up this species : it was sent to 
2 formerly as probably a species of Ophiorrhiza, with which it ? 
he naked inflorescence ; but the ovule is solitary and erect in each ce a 
ovary. Perhaps our character may require to be modified, as we have petot” 
us only one specimen, and that without fruit: those sent to the India House 
were much more complete. 
