196 RUBIACE^. 



entire, shiny above : nerves about six pairs, very distinctly 

 raised on the underside, hardly impressed on the upper. 



Flowers in corymbs of perfect cymes, terminating 

 short branches in the upper axils ; branches stout, the 

 lower sheathed by '%. inch broad, thin, stipules : pedicels 

 slender ^ to Ji inch. Calyx 1/20 inch, with minute tri- 

 angular teeth, dark green, glabrous. Corolla tube ^ to M 

 inch, white : lobes J4 inch reflexed, in bud green on the 

 outside, twisted. Anthers very slender, % inch long, 

 attached by short slender filaments to the top of the 

 corolla tube. Style twice as long as the corolla tube, 

 thickened at the end and greenish, undivided, persistent 

 after the fall of the corolla. Ovary two-celled, with one 

 ovule in each cell. Fruit black, 2/5 inch across, contain- 

 ing one or two stones. Wight Ic. t. IO35. 



Under the shade of shola trees, as an undershrub : on both 

 plateaus flowering summer, fruiting winter months. Fyson 1887, 

 2660. Bourne 988. 



PSYCHOTRIA. F.B.I. 75 Lxxv. 



Shrubs or small trees with flowers in terminal clusters, 

 and characterised by the short straight corolla tube, 

 petals valvate in bud, ovary of two cells each with one 

 wedge-shaped ovule erect from the base, and fruit a 

 drupe containing two plano-convex pyrenes each with 

 one plano-convex thin-coated seed with hard endosperm 

 and small basal embryo. Another characteristic is the 

 presence of glandular hairs in the axils of the stipules. 



A large genus of 500 species all tropical or sub-tropical. 



Psychotria congesta Wight and Arnott ; F.B.I, iii 162, 

 LXXV 5. All parts glabrous. Leaves 2 to 5 inches 

 by a third as broad obovate or oblanceolate, broadest 

 well beyond the middle, bluntly cuspidate or acute, and 

 narrowing gradually to the % to I inch stalk: nerves 

 eight to the pairs, very regular and strong. Cymes dense 



