82 NEILGHERRY PLANTS. 
calyx, ovate-globose, somewhat coriaceous, 2- (or decnsinbally 3- sometimes from abortion 1-) celled. Seeds 
solitary in each cell, plano-convex or angled. Albumen somewhat cartilaginous, grumose (divided into small 
lobes by numerous chinks and fissures). Embryo erect, small, slightly curved, somewhat dorsal; cotyledons 
lanceolate. —Glabrous shrubs. Leaves opposite, petioled, attenuated at the base. Stipules usually with hair 
at their base on the inside, often caducous. Corymbs terminal. Flowers sessile-—W. and A. Prod. p. 432. 
Psycuorria (Linn.) Calyx-tube ovate; the limb short, 5-lobed, 5-toothed or somewhat entire. Co- 
rolla infundibuliform, usually short, 5- (or rarely 4-) cleft, regular: throat glabrous or bearded; limb spread- 
ing or recurved, segments incurved at the point: estivation valvular. Stamens 5 or rarely 4; the anthers 
exserted or included within the throat of the corolla. Stigma bifid. Berry drupaceous, containing 2 nuts, 
crowned with the limb of the calyx, usually marked with 10 ribs by drying, sometimes 4-angled and with 4 
furrows, sometimes even. Nuts chartaceously coriaceous, ribbed, angled or even, 1-seeded. Seed erect, with 
a cartilaginous solid (not ruminated) albumen. Trees or shrubs, rarely herbaceous plants.. Leaves opposite, 
petioled. Peduncles usually terminal. Flowers panicled or corymbose.—VW, and A. Prod. p. 432. 
These two generaare, in my opinion, part and parcel of the same, the former only constantly differing 
from the latter in one point, of all those enumerated in these two long characters—that one point is stated in 
these few words under Grumilea, “ Albumen somewhat cartilaginous, grumose.” Beyond that there is not 
a single character assigned to Grumilea, that is not to be found among the numerous species of Psychotria. 
For these reasons, I have come to the conclusion that the two genera ought to be united, and I therefore 
club them together here, considering them but one. 
The species are all shrubs, many of them very handsome, not on account of their flowers, which are gene- 
rally small, and so much concealed among the leaves, as to be little conspicuous, but on account of their 
coinpact form and bright shining foliage. In this point of view, the Grumilea is a shrub well deserving a 
distinguished place in every ornamental shrubbery, as it might, on the hills, supply the place of the Holly in 
English gardens. The Psychotria is also a pretty shrub, but according to my taste, not equal to the other. 
There are two species of Grumilea currently met with on the Hills, and so very like each, that they may 
easily be mistaken for each other, as they are only distinguishable by the inflorescence, the one, namely, here 
represented and another which I have called G. elongata, in reference to the flowers which form an elongated 
panicle like cyme. I introduce the distinctive characters of both to prevent their being confounded. 
I shall conclude these general remarks on the two genera which perhaps I should have united under the 
older name by appending a few observations extracted from my Icones just published. 
“Ons. These two genera Grumilea and Psychotria ought to be united as they are truly one in every 
thing except the ruminated albumen of the former; a character, which, however good in a mere carpological 
system, is too limited for a vegetable one (which requires its generic characters to be taken from more organs 
and structures than one) as it can only be made out from ripe seed. If both are preserved, I believe, I 
may almost predict that probably half the present genus Psychotria must ultimately be transferred to Gru- 
milea and then, without specimens furnished with ripe fruit no man can tell whether an unknown species be- 
Jongs to the one or other genus. Our P. bractiata | feel certain will, when the ripe seed is found, prove a 
Grumilea: Wallich’s P. truncata I am all but certain is a Grumilea, and I think identical with our G. congesta 
-—Genera in a natural system surely ought not to rest on a solitary character, unsupported by habit, and still 
less so when that is only to be found in the ripe seed which, as distinct from Psychotria, is certainly the case 
with Grumilea.” 
GrumiLea ELoNGATA (R. W.) shrubby glabrous: broadly triangular, cuspidate, caducous: corymbs 
leaves fre — obovate oblong, cuspidately acu- sessile, at first compact and scarcely longer than ths 
min 
: penninerved; becoming yellowish in drying : stipules, sa aitee larger but also compact or rarely 
aeiguiel eadacas, ovate oblong, broad soheed; cymes oa eading when in fruit, naked : calyx-li ewhat 
elongated, cle-shaped, compact when in flower, bluntly B-toothed : tube "of the corolla short, scarcely 
prunes sccnstohiat: fruit : limb minutely longer pe Mp e calyx-limb: berry-ovoid, not farrow~- 
5-toothed: tube of the corolla short, throat pis ed.—W. and A. Prod. p. 432. 
with hairs : te embraced at the base by a Both ire frequent in ae w “er about Ootacamund, 
= hare Fie disk, — exserted, dilated, 2- lobed. Talso possess specimens of t chen from several 
EA coNGesTA (W. and A.) erect: leaves other stations, Foc galiein: pede &e. The 
shoe petioled, bong xiii nate at both ends, are unquestionably very nearly allied ‘Bs each cee 
penninery g yellowish by drying: stipules but are, I think, abundantly distinct species, as 
