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broad-ovate, '1 in. long. Flowers solitary, axiLiry, sub-sessile. Fruii 

 as large as a currant, fleshly, bright-red, 



Perak: Scortechini 4i\2. — Distrib. Java: on the Gedeh Volcano, 

 King. Sumatra : Beccari 44 ; Forbes 2059. 



2. Geophila pilosa, H. H. W. Pearson in Hook. Ic. Plant., t. 2691. 

 More slender than O. reniformis, the stem, leaves, peduncles and calyx 

 with much stiff pubescence. Leaves broadly ovate-cordate, with sub- 

 acute apices and slightly waved edges, both surfaces and petioles with 

 pale stout curved hairs, the upper olivaceous, the lower paler green ; 

 main-nerves 3 pairs, much curved, spreading and ascending, rather dis- 

 tinct (when dry) on the lower; length "6 to 1 in.; breadth '35 to '65 

 in. ; petiolea "5 to 2 in. Stipules ovate, "1 in. long. Peduncles terminal, 

 •5 to "8 in. long, tomentose. Flowers solitary, or 2 to 3 in an umbel 

 with 2 lanceolate hairy bracts at its base. Floioers "25 in. long, sub- 

 sessile. Gahjx-bihQ cylindi'ic, densely hairy, its lobes linear. Corolla 

 tubular, with 5 deep ovate-acute teeth, pilose externally. Fruit sub- 

 globular, black, crowned by the sub-coherent calyx-lobes, '3 in. in diam. 



Singapore : Ridley 9516. — Distrib. Borneo : Barber 249. 



3. Geophila reniformis, Don. Prodr. 1.36. /S^r ?» as thick as a crow- 

 qnill, 6 to 18 in. long, glabrous, the branches short. Leaves broadly 

 ovate-cordate to reniform, the apex sub-acute or obtuse ; upper surface 

 brown when dry, the lower paler, both glabi'ous, the main-nerves mostly 

 radiating from the base of the midrib, 3 or 4 paii's, not prominent ; length 

 •5 to 1*5 in.; breadth '5 to 1'75 in.; petioles "35 to 2 in., often puberu- 

 lous. Stiptiles small, semilunar, the apex reflexed. Peduncles slender, 

 *6 to 2 in. long, slender, 1- to 3-flowered. Flowers "6 in. long, without 

 pedicels, with lanceolate bracts at their bases. Calyx-lohes deep, narrow- 

 ly lanceolate. Corolla much exceeding the calyx, its lobes lanceolate, 

 glabrous or pubescent externally. Berry red, crowned by the calyx-lobes, 

 sub-globular, "35 in. in diara. DO. Prod. IV. 537; W. & A. Prod., 

 436; Wight Icon. t. 54; Dalz. & Gibs. PI. Bomb. Ill; Miq. FI. Ind. 

 Bat. II. 311; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 178. G. diversifolia, DC. I.e., 

 Wall. Cat. 8325. Psychotria herbacea, Linn. Sp. PI. 245; Roxb. Fl, 

 Ind. I. 533. Cephaelis herbacea, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1877, 

 II. 140. G. diversifolia, Bl. Bijdr. 1004. 



Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 927 ; Goodenough 1526. Perak : Scor- 

 techini 130, 2183; Wray 3368; King's Collector 265, 905. PenanG: Curtis 

 1930 ; Deschamps. Poongah : Curtis 3235. Kedah : Curtis. — Distrib. 

 Malayan Archipelago, Ceylon, British India, Andaman Islands, 

 Polynesia, S. China, tropical America and Africa. 



4. Geophila melanocarpa, Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. (2) III. 

 313, t. 62. Steins 6 to 18 in. long, compressed, as thick as or thicker 



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