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acute, reflexed, -2 or -3 in. long ; the peduncle 1-5 to 2-5 in. long, scaly, 

 tomentose ; ultimate branches short, bearing at their apices dense 

 capitules of small sub-sessile flowers, mixed with short broad brac- 

 teoles. Flotvers about -1 in. long. Calyx cupular-campanulate, pubes- 

 cent ; the mouth wide and with 5 blunt, triangular, spreading lobes. 

 Corolla exceeding the calyx, widely tubular, with 5 or 6 short inflexed 

 teeth, glabrous inside, hairy outside. Anthers oblong, blunt at each 

 end, the filaments short. Fruit ellipsoid, tapering equally to each end, 

 boldly 10-ridged, somewhat compressed, crowned by the hairy calyx- 

 lobes, otherwise sub-glabrous, -25 to -3 in. long and -2 in. across. Seeds 

 with 5 dorsal ridges, the ventral surface plane. 



Perak, on Birch's Hill, elev. 4,000 feet : Scortechini 258 ; Wray 1 ; 

 Ki7ig's Collector 2134, 2950, 7348. Selangor : Bidley 7432. 



The flowers are described as white, and the ripe fruit as cherry red. Named in 

 honour of Mr. Birch, a British civil officer, who was murdered by the aborigines in 

 Perak. 



21. PsYCHOTEiA FULVA, Buch.-Ham. ex. Wall. Cat. 8366, excl. B. A 

 shrub ; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, dark brown when 

 dry, bearing a few scattered coarse hairs. Leaves thickly membranous, 

 elliptic, shortly acuminate and tapering almost equally to the base ; 

 upper surface without hairs except a few on the midrib near the base, 

 under surface with dark cinereous pubescence on the midrib and 15 to 

 18 pairs of sub-horizontal slightly curved main -nerves ; length 5 to 

 7 in., breadth 1-75 to 3'5 in. ; petioles 1-25 to 2-4 in., coarsely and 

 deciduously pubescent. Stipules membranous, broadly oblong, the 

 apex deeply and acuminately bifid, the edges coarsely ciliate ; length 

 about 1 in. Cymes pedunculate, axillary, trichotomous, the flowers in 

 condensed capitular cymes at the ends of the short branches, enveloped 

 when in bud in 2 or 3 large deciduous bracts ; in fruit about 2 in. across 

 and less in length ; peduncles about 2 in. long ; branches about "5 in. long, 

 horizontal ; all, like the short flower pedicels, coarsely rusty-pubescent. 

 Calyx cupular, with 5 deep, spreading, narrow, acuminate lobes. Corolla 

 not seen. Fruit narrowly elliptic, somewhat compressed, tapering 

 slightly to each end, the apex crowned by the erect connivent calyx- 

 lobes, boldly but somewhat unequally 12-ridged, glabrous, -45 in. long 

 and -25 in. in diam. Seeds 5-ridged on the dorsal, the ventral surface 

 flat. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 169, excl. syn. P. monticola, Kurz. 

 Psychotria, Wall. Cat. 8337; Griff. Notulse, IV. 268; Ic. PI. Asiat. 

 t. 479, f. 2. 



Perak, On Ulu BatungPadang : Wray 1615. — Distrib. E. Bengal, 

 Griffith (K.D.) 3022, 3034, 3035, 3036 ; Khasia, Hook f. d Thorns. 14. 



P. monticola, Kurz, a Burmese plant, has been reduced to P. fulva, Buch.-Ham., 

 but in my opinion it is quite distinct. 



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