18 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Penang: Wallich 8329; Curtis 732. Trang : Kunstler 1382. 

 Pahang : Bidley 2216. Peeak : Biclley 2918 ; King's Collector, 

 1357, 1382; Wray 3440; Scortechini 278, 307, 558, 692.— Distrib. 

 Sumatra. 



24. PsYCHOTRiA CuRTisii, n. sp.. King & Gamble. A shrub, 6 

 feet high ; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, rusty-pubes- 

 cent. Leaves elliptic, sometimes somewhat obovate, tapering equally 

 to each end, shortly acuminate, the base cuneate ; both surfaces oliva- 

 ceous-brown when dry, the upper glabrous or with a few hairs on the 

 midrib near the base, the lower rusty -puberulous between the 9 or 10 

 pairs of bold, shortly and densely rusty-pubescent curved ascending 

 main-nerves ; length 5 to 8 in. ; breadth 1*5 to 3 in. ; petioles "5 in., 

 densely rusty-pubescent. Stiyules caducous. Cijme solitary, terminal, 

 3-branched, on a pubescent peduncle from -3 to "5 in. long (much 

 longer in fruit), branches bearing 3 to 5 sessile flowers in capitula at 

 their apices ; bracteoles linear. Floioers '25 in. long, rusty -pubescent. 

 Calyx half-superior, campanulate, the mouth with 5 long, spreading, 

 ovate-acuminate lobes. Corolla longer than the calyx, salver-shaped, 

 with 5 oblong lobes. Fruit ovoid, tapering to the apex, crowned by 

 the long lobes of the calyx, the sides puberulous, 10-ridged. Seeds 

 with 4 ridges on the dorsal surface, the ventral plane. 



Penang : Curtis 2695. 



25. PsYCHOTRiA RHiNOCEROTis, Eeinw. ex Blume Bijdr. 961. A 

 shrub ; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, at first rusty-tomen- 

 tose, afterwards glabrescent and pale brown. Leaves coriaceous, 

 obovate-oblong or obovate-oblanceolate, the apex broad, but usually 

 with a small abrupt apiculus, the base cuneate ; upper surface oliva- 

 ceous, glabrous, the lower brown and softly and finely rusty-pubescent ; 

 the midrib broad, more prominent on the upper than on the lower 

 surface; main-nerves 10 to 14 pairs, slightly curved, oblique, distinct on 

 both surfaces ; length 3 to 5 in. ; breadth 1-35 to 2-5 in. ; petiole -2 to "6 

 in., stout. Panicle solitary, terminal, 1*5 in. long and slightly wider; 

 branches few, lax, divaricate, cymosely few-flowered. Frjiit elliptic- 

 ovoid, slightly compressed, with 10 vertical grooves (2 of them 

 double), crowned by the rather broad, bluntly 5-toothed calyx, 

 acutely 10-ridged (2 ridges double), pubescent between the ridges ; 

 length "25 in. ; breadth "2 in. Seeds dorsally 4-ridged, ventral surface 

 plane. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 292; DC. Prod. IV. 521; Korth. 

 Kruidk. p. 242. 



Perak : King's Collector 8272 ; Scortechini. 



26. PsYCHOTRiA MALAYANA, Jack in Mai. Misc. I. 3 ; reprinted in 

 Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. IV. (1843), p. 26. A shrub ; young branches 



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