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'2 to -5 in. Stipules caducous, leaving a pale narrow scar between the 

 petioles. Cymes terminal, about 2 in., rarely 3 in. long; the branches 

 compressed and angled, scurfy-puberulous, two of them springing from 

 the base, the other three umbellate at the apex of the main axis, each 

 bearing at its apex a dense, many-flowered, minutely bracteolate 

 capitulum less than -5 in. in diam. Flowers -2 in. long, sessile. 

 Calyx crupular, the mouth with 5 small blunt teeth. Corolla twice as 

 long as the calyx ; the mouth with 5 deep oblong blunt lobes ; throat 

 densely sericeous. Anthers 5, short, elhptic, basifixed on stout fila- 

 ments. Style cylindric, thickened upwards ; stigma of 2 broad lobes. 

 Fruit short, compressed ovoid-elliptic, with 8 vertical ridges (2 of 

 them double) crowned by the small calyx, • 25 in. long and -15 in. 

 in diam. from front to back ; seeds with 4 dorsal ridges ; ventral 

 surface plane. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 166. Psychotria? Wall. 

 ■Cat. 8355. 



Perak : King's Collector 2585, 2665 ; Scortechlni 1826 ; Wray 4001. 

 Penang : Wallich ; Curtis 478. 



3. PsYCHOTEiA Maingayi, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 166. A slender 

 woody climber ; young branches half as thick as a goose-quill, pubes- 

 cent, ultimately pale and glabrous. Leaves thickly membranous, nar- 

 rowly elliptic, caudate-acuminate, the base much narrow^ed ; both 

 surfaces glabrous, when dry pale olivaceous, the tipper rather the 

 darker ; main-nerves about 6 pairs, indistinct on both surfaces 

 like the midrib ; length 2 to 3'25 in. ; breadth -65 to 1-2 in. ; petiole 

 •1 to "2 in., slender. Stipules cartilaginous, persistent, connate into a 

 tube "15 in. long with a few hairs at the truncate and toothed or acute 

 apex. Cymes axillary, on slender, compressed, coarsely pubescent 

 peduncles shorter than the leaves, few-branched. Flotvers sessile, 

 bracteoles linear. Calyx much longer than the pubescent ovary, widely 

 campanulate ; the lobes ovate-triangular, caudate-acuminate, spreading. 

 Corolla unknown. Fruit broadly ellipsoid, with 8 deep vertical grooves, 

 pale, nearly glabrous when ripe, -2 in. long. 



Singapore : Maingay (K.D.) 926 ; Bidlcy 6924. 



4. Psychotria sarmentosa, Biume Bijdr. 964. Scandent ; woody ; 

 young stems thinner than a goose-quill, pale, glabrous. Leaves thinly 

 coriaceous, elliptic-oblanceolate to elliptic, acute or shortly and abruptly 

 acuminate, much narrowed at the base, edges slightly recurved ; both 

 surfaces pale brown tinged with olivaceous when dry, minutely reticu- 

 late ; the upper glabrous, the lower sometimes pubescent only on the 

 stout midrib ; main-nerves 7 to 10 pairs, curving slightly upwards, 

 faint ; length 2-5 to 4 in. ; breadth 1 to 1-75 in. ; petioles -4 to -75 in., 

 winged above. Stipules broad at the base, the apex caudate-acuminate. 



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