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19. PsYGHOTEiA viEiDiFLORA, Reinw. ex Blume Bijdr. 965. A small 

 tree or a bush, all parts, except the inflorescence, glabrous ; young 

 branches thinner than a goose-quill, dark brown. Leaves membranous, 

 oblong-elliptic to oblanceolate-elliptic, shortly and stoutly acuminate, 

 the base much narrowed ; both surfaces brown when dry ; main-nerves 

 8 to 14 pairs, curved, spreading, rather faint on both surfaces ; length 

 3-5 to 8 in. ; breadth 1-25 to 2-5 in. ; petiole -4 to -75 in. occasionally as 

 much as 1*25 in. long. Stipules broadly oblong, narrowed to the apex, 

 but not acute, "3 to '5 in. long, deciduous. Cymes on naked peduncles 

 (•3 to 1-5 in. long) in broad panicles 1 to 2 in. long and as much wide 

 (more when in fruit) ; branches divaricating, puberulous, with small 

 broad bracteoles. Floivers in small cymes, on the ultimate branches, 

 '1 in. long, on short pedicels, glabrous outside. Calyx cupular with 

 irregular, short, sharp teeth. Corolla longer than the calyx, widely 

 tubular, with 5 broad sub-acute lobes ; the throat sericeous. Anthers 5, 

 oblong, blunt, attached by short filaments in the throat. Fruit elliptic, 

 with a wide shallow areola on the apex, the sides with 10 bold vertical 

 ridges (2 of them double), glabrous, about -25 in. long and -2 in. in 

 diam. Seeds plano-convex, the convexity deeply 5-grooved, the ventral 

 surface flat. P. sulcata, Wall. Cat. 8370 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 

 168. P. JacUi, Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. III. 167. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 3021; Goodenough 1878; Derry 457, 

 1224 ; Bidley 1600. Pangkoee : Curtis 1369. Trang : Wray 2778. 

 Negri Sembilan : Bidley 1930. Selangor : Bidley 7434. Perak : 

 Scortechini; Bidley 2919, 3067; Wray 290, 2027, 2778, 2956; King's 

 Collector 2655, 4275, 4374, 5964, 6327, 7224. Penang : Wallich 8343, 

 8370.— DiSTEiB. Burma, Heifer & Griffith (K.D.) 3040; Sumatra, 

 Forbes; JaYa., Bhime ; Borneo, Beccari ; Motley; Haviland. 



20. PsYCHOTRiA Birchiana, n. sp., King & Gamble. Herbaceous; 

 woody at the base ; all parts softly rusty-pubescent ; stems 6 to 18 in, 

 high, thinner than a goose-quill, their pubescence crisped, dense, coarse, 

 and entirely or partly deciduous. Leaves thickly membranous, elliptic 

 to elliptic-oblong, sometimes sub-obovate, acute, the base rounded or 

 minutely cordate or sometimes cuneate ; both surfaces brown when 

 dry, the lower sometimes paler and with fewer hairs ; the midrib 

 prominent and very hairy on both sides, the 10 to 12 pairs of rather 

 faint little-curved spreading main-nerves less hairy than the midrib ; 

 length 3-5 to 5 in. ; breadth 1-5 to 2 '25 in. ; petiole -5 to 1 in., covered 

 with coarse tomentum mixed with ovate-acuminate scales. Stipules 

 oblong-ovate, acuminate, -5 to -75 in. long. Cymes pedunculate, 

 solitary, terminal, spreading, 1-5 to 2 in. across, and about as long, the 

 branches spreading, bracteate at the divisions, the bracts lanceolate, 



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