Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. ' 13= 



very prominent, and the 8 to 10 pairs of spreading nerves thin but 

 distinct; length 4 to 6 in. ; breadth 1 to 1-75 in. ; petiole -2 to -5 in., 

 slightly winged near the apex. Stiindes broadly triangular, acute, sub- 

 acute or bifid, -25 in. long. Cyme solitary, terminal, pyramidal, about 

 1-5 in. long, on a naked peduncle 1-25 to 3 in. long; branches whorled, 

 shortly bracteolate at their bases, spreading ; the ultimate branchlets 

 crowded at their ends with numerous sessile flowers -25 in. long. 

 Calyx pale, widely cupular, -05 in. long, with irregular small teeth. 

 Corolla thick, tubular, its 5 broad lobes with acute inflexed apices ; the 

 throat densely sericeous. Anthers elliptic, blunt, on short filaments. 

 Fruit ovoid or narrowly obovoid, pulpy, obscurely ridged, glabrous, 

 crowned by the small calyx, -5 in. long and half as much broad (unripe), 

 2-celled. Seeds 2, plano-convex. Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. IV. 

 210; Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. III. 172. Psychotria, Wall. Cat. 8348. 

 Chasalia perforata, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl, 546. 



Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 3037. Province Wellesley : Ridley 7026. 

 JoHGEE : Pudley 11161. Singapore : Piidley 2867. Pahang : Bidley 

 1353. Penang : Curtis 14, 726 ; King's Collector 1683. Perak : 

 King's Collector 4170. — Distrib. Burma. 



17. Psychotria Helferiana, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., 1872, 

 II. 314. A shrub ; the whole plant more or less rusty-pubescent ; 

 young branches as thick as a goose-quill or thicker, the pubescence 

 dense and deciduous. Leaves thickly membranous, elliptic or oblong- 

 elliptic, rarely obovate-elliptic, the apex acuminate, the base usually 

 cuneate but sometimes rounded ; both surfaces dark brown when dry, 

 the lower somewhat tinged with red and less hairy than the upper ; 

 the hail's on both adpressed and very numerous on the stout midrib, 

 less so on the 9 to 16 pairs of spreading curved main-nerves ; length 

 6 to 12 in. ; breadth 2*5 to 4-5 in. ; petioles 1 to 1'75 in. Stiindes 

 broadly ovate to oblong-lanceolate, often as much as 1 in. long, the 

 apex acuminately bifid. Flozvers '2 in. long, numerous, mixed with many 

 unequal bracteoles mostly longer than themselves, all acuminate and 

 some of them bifid and crowded in dense pedunculate capitula in a 

 few-branched axillary cyme usually shorter than the leaf-petioles. 

 Calyx-tnbe narrowly campanulate, with 5 lanceolate erect lobes nearly 

 as long as itself, everywhere pilose. Corolla similar to the calyx, but 

 smaller and less hairy. Stamens almost sessile ; anthers broad, blunt. 

 Fruit ovoid or ellipsoid, somewhat compressed and boldly 8-ridged, 

 crowned by the lobes of the calyx, -3 in. long and -2 in. in diam. Kurz 

 For. Fl. Burm. II. 11 : Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 172. 



Singapore : Wallich 8368 ; Goodenough 184 ; Maingay (K.D.) 921. 

 Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 921 ; Bidley 184 ; Lobb. Johore : Bidley^ 



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