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Cymes terminal, puberulous, shorter than the leaves, on short peduncles,, 

 cymosely branched ; the branches angled, spreading, many-flowered 

 bracteoles minute, linear. Flo^vers about -15 in. long, puberulous out- 

 side, on short pedicels. Calyx campanulate, with 5 short triangular 

 teeth. Corolla villous at the base in the interior. Fruit elhpsoid,. 

 •25 in. long, with 10 vertical ridges (2 of them double). Seeds with 

 4 dorsal ridges, the ventral surface plane. DC. Prod. IV. 522 ; Wight. 

 Ic. 1038; Thwaites Enum. PL Ceyl. 148; Kurz For. Fl. Burm. II. 

 14; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 165. P. obovata, Wall. Cat. 8380. 

 Grumilea Jnmjlmlnviana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 296. Psycliotria sp.,. 

 Wall. Cat. 8382, 8352 ?, 8384. 



Singapore : EicUcy 2874, 2875, 9112. Malacca : Griffith (K.D.). 

 3043. Peeak: King's Collector 4967, 7572. Penang : King 1346;. 

 C2irtis 951, 2781.— DiSTRiB. Burma, Wallich ; Heifer (K.D.) 3041, 

 &c. ; Indian Peninsula; Ceylon ; Malay Archipelago ; Andaman Islands. 



Var. ixichyphylla, King & Gamble. Leaves thickly coriaceous,, 

 shining, gi'eenish when dry, 3 to 4 in. long ; fruit -25 in. long, sub- 

 globular. 



Penang : Bidlcy 9363 ; Curtis 2215. 



5. PsYCHOTRiA Kunstleri, n. sp.. King & Gamble. A glabrous- 

 epiphyte with slightly angled stems thinner than a goose-quill, pale 

 yellowish when dry. Leaves succulent, glossy and bluish-green when 

 fresh, but yellow on both surfaces and dull when dry, narrowly elliptic- 

 oblong, rarely oblong-oblanceolate, gradually and equally tapering to 

 each end ; the midrib bold, channelled on the upper surface ; main- 

 nerves 4 to 6 pairs, spreading, very indistinct; length 3 to 5-5 in. ; 

 breadth -8 to 1'4 in. ; petioles 4 to -8 in. long. Stipules forming a car- 

 tilaginous persistent cup with an entire mouth, about '1 in. long. Cyme 

 solitary, umbellate, terminal, longer than the leaves (the naked peduncle 

 of 2 to 3 in. being included), lax, from 2 to 4 in. broad; branches 

 spreading, dividing near their apices into umbellate cymes ; bracteoles 

 few, linear, acute. Floioers not seen : on basally bracteolate pedicels- 

 as long as themselves. Fruit -35 in. long, ellipsoid, deeply 10-grooved, 

 crowned by the rather large remains of the 5-toothed calyx, 10-ridged. 

 Seeds dorsally 4-ridged, the ventral surface flat. 



Peeak: ScortecJiini ; King's Collector 1886, 4953, 6588; Wray 

 2230.— DisTRiB. Sumatra, Forbes 2823. 



6. Psychoteia penangensis, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. HI. 175. A 

 shrubby epiphyte or climber, 8 to 12 feet long, all parts except the 

 inflorescence glabrous ; young branches slightly compressed, thinner 

 than a goose-quill, dark-coloured. Leaves thinly coriaceous, broadly 

 elliptic-obovate or sub-ovate, shortly and abruptly triangular, acumi- 



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