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22. PsYCHOTEiA FULvoiDEA, n. sp., King & Gamble. A small 

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

 glabrous. Leaves membranous, narrowly elliptic, acuminate, crenu- 

 late, the base cuneate ; upper surface glabrous, dark brown when dry, 

 the lower reddish-brown ; the midrib, nerves and reticulations rusty- 

 pubescent, otherwise glabrous ; midrib prominent on both surfaces, 

 the 10 to 14 pairs of spreading, curving main-nerves slightly prominent 

 on the lower ; length 6 to 7 in. ; breadth 2 to 2-5 in. ; petiole 1 to 

 1-3 in. Stipules membranous, ovate, caudate -acuminate, the edges 

 irregularly serrate, ciliate, length about 1 in. Cymes axillary, trichoto- 

 mous, condensed, about 2 in. broad when in fruit and 1-25 in. long, 

 on deflexed, coarsely but shortly pubescent peduncles 3 in. long ; 

 their branches short, spreading, bracteate at the divisions and coarsely 

 pubescent. Floivers condensed into globose capitulate cymes at the 

 apices of the branches, sessile. Calyx narrowly campanulate, pubes- 

 cent, with 5 erect acute teeth. Corolla unknown. Fruit narrowly 

 elliptic, tapering to each end, the apex crowned by the short pubescent 

 lobes, with 12 deep ridges and grooves, glabrous, -4 in. long and -2 in. 

 in diam. Seed dorsally 5-ridged, ventrally 2-grooved. 



Perak : Scortechini 538. 



This approaches P. fulva, but is a smaller plant, with crenulate leaves quite 

 glabrous on the upper surface and nearly so on the lower. 



23. PsYCHOTRiA STiPULACEA, Wall, in Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & 

 Wall. II. 164. A shrub, 1 to 2 feet high, all parts except the inflores- 

 cence glabrous ; stems as thick as a goose-quill, brown when dry. 

 Leaves membranous, broadly oblanceolate to elliptic, or oblong, abruptly 

 and shortly acuminate, much narrowed to the base ; both surfaces 

 glabrous, when dry brown with a reddish tinge ; midrib very stout, main- 

 nerves 11 to 13 pairs, spreading, slightly curved, distinct on both sur- 

 faces ; length 5 to 9 in. ; breadth 2 to 4 in. ; petioles -5 to 1-25 in. long, 

 winged near the apex. Stipules large, sub-persistent, ovate, sometimes 

 bifid, -75 to 1 in. long, and about -4 in. broad. Cyme usually solitary, 

 corymbose, trichotomous, terminal, on a short peduncle, bracteate at the 

 base, about 2 to 3 in. in diam. ; its branches puberulous, bracts and brac- 

 teoles triangular. Floivers '15 in. long, on short pedicels, clustered in 

 dense, cymose, capituliform cymes at the ends of the ultimate branches. 

 Calyx campanulate, with 5 broad pubescent lobes, the tube glabrous. 

 Corolla longer than the calyx, widely campanulate, 4- or 5-toothed. 

 Fruit ellipsoid, sub-compressed, 10-ridged, crowned by the small calyx, 

 •3 in. long, and '15 in. in diam. Seed dorsally 5-ridged, ventrally con- 

 cave, with one central ridge. Wall. Cat. 8329 ; DC. Prod. IV. 519 ; 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 167. 



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