8 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Peeak: ScortecMni 311, 404, 426; King's Collector 897, 2566, 



5373. 



This closely resembles P. laxiflora, BL, but has 5-merous flowers and longer, less 

 clavate fruit. 



8. PsYCHOTKiA piLULiFEEA, n. sp., King & Gamble. A small tree 

 or climber ; all parts except the inflorescence glabrous ; young branches 

 about as thick as a crow-quill, terete, pale brown when dry. Leaves 

 coriaceous, narrowly elliptic, much tapered to both ends ; both surfaces 

 olivaceous when dry, the lower slightly the paler ; main-nerves 6 or 

 7 pairs, inconspicuous, the midrib bold beneath when dry ; length 2-5 to 

 3-5 in.; breadth -75 to 1 in. ; petiole -35 to -4 in. long, slender. Inflores- 

 cence a terminal, few-branched, puberulous panicle of condensed 8-10- 

 flowered globular cymes. Floivers and their short pedicels minutely 

 tomentose. Calyx shortly campanulate, the mouth with 5 spreading 

 triangular acute lobes. Corolla tubular ; the lobes oblong, broad, with 

 small inflexed apices. Anthers 5, attached to the throat by short fila- 

 ments surrounded by coarse hair. Fruit sub-globose, with 10 bold 

 vertical ridges (2 of them double), crowned by the small calyx, -2 long 

 and -15 in. in diam. Seeds with 3 bold ridges on the dorsal surface ; 

 ventral surface plane. 



Perak, at elevations of 3,000 to 5,000 feet : Wray 287, 398, 434, 946, 

 3870. 



9. PsYCHOTRiA ovoiDEA, Wall. Cat. 8383. A slender woody climber, 

 20 to 40 feet long ; stems thinner than a goose-quill, densely rusty- 

 pubescent. Leaves with recurved margins, coriaceous, ovate- or 

 elliptic-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, the base cuneate or rounded, 

 sometimes minutely cordate ; upper surface olivaceous when dry, 

 glabrous, the main-nerves depressed ; the lower brown, pubescent on 

 the stout midrib and 5 to 7 pairs of prominent curved ascending main- 

 nerves, puberulous on the interspaces; length 1'5 to 2'5 in.; breadth -85 

 to 1"25 in. ; petioles "15 to '25 in. long. Stiindes connate, ovate-lanceo- 

 late, -25 in. long, caducous. Cymes "75 to 2 in. in diam., trichotomous, 

 solitary, terminal, rusty-pubescent, on angled peduncles '5 to 1 in. long. 

 Floivers about -15 in. long, on short pedicels, crowded in dense cymes 

 at the ends of the branches and mixed with linear bracteoles. Calyx 

 campanulate, with 5 spreading acute teeth. Corolla twice as long as 

 the calyx, salver-shaped, with 5 lobes, the tube villous inside. Fruit 

 ovoid-globose, "15 in. long, the apex crowned by the calyx, the sides 

 with 6 faint vertical ridges. Seeds faintly 3-ridged on the dorsal surface ; 

 the ventral surface broad, flat. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 166. 



Singapore : Wallich, Seeman 2348. Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 

 923 ; Bidley 97, 8407. 

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