66 RUBIACE/E 



feet, the leaves are only 2 to 3 inches long and the fruit 

 invariably has two plano-convex seeds, t. 366. 



Psychotria clongata Wight ; RB.L iii 163, LXXV 10. 

 A shrub of the sholas with nearly elliptic, opposite leaves, 

 impressed on the upper side with 13 or so very regularly 

 placed pairs of nerves with perforations at the axils, and 

 small white flowered cymes in erect terminal spikes 

 subtended at the base by two very large stipules which 

 form a divided tube, % inch long. Whole plant quite 

 glabrous, branches smooth and shining. Stipules early 

 caducous. Calyx obsolete. Corolla tube J^ inch lobes 

 shorter, spreading; throat hairy. Stamens erect, fila- 

 ments white. Fruit % inch diameter. Seeds two, flat 

 on the inner face. Endosperm ruminate, t. 367. 

 Wight Ic. t. 1036. 



Nilgiris at 5,000 feet in dark sholas. Also near Coonoor, 

 6,000 feet under light shade but appears not to fruit well there. 

 Fyson 6266. 



Psychotria bisulcata W&A.; Vol. I p. 197. t. 368. 



Nilgiris : Kotagiri in large sholas. Coonoor under light 

 shade, of Elaeocarpus oblongus, etc. Fyson 6392 (figure). 



LASIANTHUS. 



See Vol. I p. 197. 

 ' Lasianthus coffcoidcs Fyson ; Vol. I p. 199- t. 369. 

 Apparently only on the Pulneys. 



Lasianthus strigillosus Hook. /.; RB.L iii 185, LXXIX 

 26. Shrub, moderately branched. Leaves similar in 

 shape but smaller than in L. coffeoides, with 4 or 5 

 pairs of nerves, and very numerous, very faint cross 

 nerves : drying gray. Cymes sessile. Flowers white. 

 Fruit J4 inch diameter, black. 



Nilgiris : Coonoor, under the dense shade of Hydnocarpus 

 alpinus at 6,000 feet, etc. 



