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shallow groove. P. ohovata, Wall. Cat. 8380a. Grumilea polycarpa,. 

 Miq. M. Ind. Bat. II. 295. 



Singapore : Bidley 2029. Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 3042 ; Main- 

 gay (K.D.) 924 ; Hullett 402. Johoee : Bidley 4090, 11160. Penang : 

 Curtis 1095. Perak : Wray and King's Collector many numbers. 

 DiSTRiB. — Java, King ; Forbes 1061 ; Koorders 28043b. 



12. PsYCHOTEiA CALOCAEPA, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., 1872, II. 

 315. A glabrous shrub 2 to 4 feet high ; young branches thinner than 

 a goose-quill, dark-coloured w^hen dry. Leaves thickly membranous, 

 oblong-oblanceolate or oblanceolate, shortly caudate-acuminate at the 

 apex, much attenuate at the base, the edges sometimes broadly crenate ; 

 both surfaces olivaceous v^hen dry, the midrib and nerves broad, distinct, 

 and pale ; main-nerves 10 to 12 pairs, slightly curved, spreading and 

 interarching to form a bold pale intramarginal nerve "1 to '15 in. from 

 the edge; length 5 to 8 in.; breadth 1-65 to 2-5 in.; petiole -75 to 

 1-25 in., slightly winged near the apex. Stipules broadly triangular,, 

 acuminate, membranous, sometimes bifid, "2 in. long. Cymes terminal 

 or axillary, sessile or shortly pedunculate, shorter than the petioles, 

 about 1"25 in. across and "5 in. long, branched from near the base, 

 the branches compressed, trichotomous ; the bracteoles lanceolate, 

 acuminate. Flowers "2 in. long, on short pedicels. Calyx with a 

 short cylindric tube and 4 longer oblong blunt sub-erect concave lobes. 

 Corolla exceeding the calyx, narrowly campanulate, bluntly 4-lobed,. 

 the throat densely sericeous, otherwise glabrous. Fruit sub-globose or 

 ovoid, sub-compressed; the epicarp fleshy, glabrous, rugulose when 

 dry ; -3 in. in breadth and rather less in length, the persistent calyx- 

 lobes small. Seeds large, the dorsal surface faintly 1-ridged, the ventral 

 deeply grooved, Kurz For. Fl. Burm. II. 9 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 III. 173. P. asiatica, Wall, in Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 160; 

 Wall. Cat. 8331 : not of Linn, nor of Eoxb. P. viridifiora, Reinw. 

 var. tmdulata, Kurz For. Fl. Burm. II. 13. P. j^icta, Wall. Cat. 8353 ; 

 and Psychotria, I.e. 8359. 



Perak: Bidley 7199 ; Wray 2200; King's Collector 1930, 2348, 6798, 

 10772 ; Scortechini. Malacca : Ilervey. — Distrib. Himalaya, Assam, 

 Burma. 



This plant is very common in the lower Himalaya, Assam, and Burma. In the 

 Flora of British India it is described as herbaceous, but the Malayan specimens are all 

 woody. The leaves are always readily distinguished, when dry, by the pale broad main- 

 nerves and by the very conspicuous intra-marginal nerve. In Malaya the plant is 

 glabrous, but in the Indian specimens the under surfaces of the leaves are deciduously 

 puberulous. 



13. Psychotria multicapitata, n. sp. King & Gamble. An erect. 

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