428 LXI. RUBIACER. [ Psychotria. 
tomentose or softly pubescent, or rarely the em S at length glabrous be 
to 
Leaves ovate elliptical or oblong, acuminate or almost obtuse, narrowe 
a petiole, mostly 2 to 3 in. long. Peduncles grob but often appearing 
ie a wag Gage cyme i or head of small s idle heen Bracts not ex- 
tube, hirsute Qicide: anthers exserted.' Fruits ovoid, pubescent, crowned 
by the calyx-limb ; pyrenes and seeds longitudinally ribbed and furrowed. 
Queensland. Wide Bay, Bidwill; Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, 4. Cunningham, 
F. Mueller. 
. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the et Dese R. Brown, Sieber, n. 263, and 
dier; Port SEN Backhóuse, M‘Arth 
Var. angusti ifolia s narrow, on very e t pote softly villous, Cymes with 
very few flower-heads. nw erii Ban Dallac. 
P. daphnoides, 4. Cunn.; Hook. . Mag. t. 3228. Shrubby, 
i er except the inflorescence. Leaves pe. or oblong, mE ode 
or rarely shortly acuminate, in some specimens under 1 in., in "others 2 in. 
long or more, narrowed into a petiole, somewhat coriaceous, almost ëch 
except the midrib. Cymes terminal , pedunculate, trichotomous or the primary 
branches almost umbellate, 1 to nearly 2 in. diameter, rather dense, the 
brous outside, bearded inside at the throat, the lobes as long as the tube. 
Fruit ovoid, the pyrenes and seeds eee ribbed and furrowed. 
KR Cape York, M'Gillivray ; N.E. coast, 4. Cunn ingham ; — E 
rt Denison, Fitzalan ; Wide Bay Wer? Fitzroy river, ` 
D zs dio, dore AA Brisbane irr Marston Bay, A. Cunningham, F Mei T 
Clarence river 
tropical Lo have mally ja Myr iir; the small-leaved specimens (mostly ander 
1 in) are chiefly subtro 
Var. angustifolia. ves narrow-oblong. Queensland, Bowman. 
P. emma, Benth. Nearly allied to a larger forms of 
5s e but the leaves are larger, mostly 3 to 4 in. long, the ges 
rous, in more pedun aser cymes, the corollas hoary-tomentose outer 
oe: the E globular, not ovoid. 
Queensland. Cape York, Mir Edgecombe Bay, deg i pech Elli es 
Fitzatan. e Gray, from a memorandum in Herb. Hook., thinks this may coe 
is P. tephrosanthes, from the Fiji islands. We Se e no specimens s to compare, D ` hich 
scribes the leaves as acuminate, the pedicels slender, and the calyx truncate, none 0 section 
EE Gs with our plant, and which seem to indicate rather a species of the 
rum 
6. P. Pitzalani, Benth. Quite glabrous. Leaves broadly ovate Ge 
obovate, obtuse, narrowed into a petiole, 2 to 3 in. long, very thi ck vedi 
ceous. Cymes pedunculate, terminal, corymbose, shorter than the pee 
glabrous.  Calyx-limb short, distinetly toothed. Corolla nearly 3 lines iie 
the tube almost ovoid, hairy inside; lobes 5, shorter than the tube.“ 
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