4 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Seeds with 4 ridges on the dorsal surface and a faint 

 groove on the ventral ; leaves elliptic or elliptic- 

 lanceolate, 12- to 18-nerved . . . . . . 26. P. malayana. 



Species Imperfectly Known. 



Psychotria Wrayi, No. 27. 

 ,, incequalis, No. 28. 



,, condensa, No. 29. 



1. Psychotria laxiflora, Blume Bijdr. 964. Scandent or epiphy- 

 tic, glabrous except the inflorescence ; young branches shghtly thicker 

 than a crow-quill, terete, dark-coloured, brown, shining. Leaves 

 membranous, narrowly elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate, much acuminate, 

 the base cuneate; both surfaces olivaceous-brown when dry, the lower 

 the paler, midrib distinct ; main-nerves 4 to 6 pairs, faint, curved, 

 ascending; length 2 to 4 in.; breadth -5 to 1 in.; petiole -15 to -2 in. 

 long. Stipules forming a tube from -15 to -3 in. long, sharply toothed. 

 PaJiicles solitary, terminal, lax, more than half as long as the leaves, 

 on naked peduncles about 1 in. long ; branches cymose, with small 

 acute bracteoles at their bases, puberulous. Floivers '15 to -2 in. long, 

 puberulous, in cymules of three at the ends of the branchlets ; their 

 pedicels short, with broad acute caducous bracteoles at their bases. 

 Calyx shortly funnel-shaped, the mouth sub-truncate or obscurely 

 4 toothed. Corolla longer than the calyx, broadly clavate in bud, 

 funnel-shaped ; the mouth with 4 broad obtuse lobes, throat sericeous. 

 Anthers 4, elliptic, blunt, sub-sessile. Fruit clavate-ellipsoid, with 8 

 vertical ridges (2 of them double), glabrous ; seeds with 4 bold ridges 

 on the dorsal surface ; the ventral surface quite flat. Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. II. 187. 



Singapore : Bidley 13, 4828. Johore : Bidley. Perak : King's 

 Collector 4117, 8428; Wray 110.— Distrib. Sumatra, Forbes 1297, 

 1309, 1710, 2466 ; Java, Koorders 23550b. 



2. Psychotria morind^flora. Wall. Cat. 8438 A. B.C. in part. A 

 woody climber, 15 to 20 feet long, glabrous except the puberulous 

 inflorescence ; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, dai-k brown 

 when dry, terete, somewhat thickened at the nodes, the internodes 

 minutely lenticellate and faintly striate. Leaves coriaceous, ovate to 

 elliptic, sometimes oblong-lanceolate, shortly and rather bluntly acumi- 

 nate, the base slightly cuneate or rarely rounded ; upper surface'oliva- 

 ceous-greenish when dry, the lower purplish-brown ; the midrib 

 channelled on the upper surface, prominent on the lower ; main-nerves 

 6 to 8 pairs, rather straight, spreading, thin but rather distinct on both 

 surfaces when dry ; length 3 to 4-5 in. ; breadth 1-75 to 2-5 in. ; petiole 



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