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rather thinner than a goose-quill, sub-terete, glabrous, rather pale 

 brown when dry. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic or broadly elliptic-lan- 

 ceolate, shortly and abruptly acuminate, much narrowed to the base; 

 upper surfaces glabrous, brown, shining when dry, the lower dull and 

 sparsely pubescent, often tinged reddish, the edges slightly recurved ; 

 main-nerves 12 to 18 pairs, ascending, little curved, bold on the lower 

 surface and faint on the upper ; length 5 to 10 in. ; breadth 2-5 to 

 4-5 in. ; petioles -4 to 1-5 in. SUpules broadly ovate, blunt, about 

 •35 in. long. Cyme terminal, on an angled, sub-compressed peduncle 

 •5 to 1 in. long (lengthening in fruit), the branches corymbose, whorled, 

 many-flowered ; ultimate cymules 3-flowered. Flowers -5 in. long, 

 2 on each cymule, on short pedicels (the middle one sessile), minutely 

 bracteolate at the base. Calyx under -1 in. long, tubular, the truncate 

 mouth minutely 5-toothed. Corolla tubular, -4 in. long, with 5 oblong 

 sub-acute lobes ; the throat villous inside. Fruit "4 in. long and 'S in. 

 in diam., elliptic-ovoid, vertically 10-ridged, the apex with very slight 

 remains of the calyx. Seeds faintly 4-ridged on the dorsal, the 

 ventral surface plane with a faint central groove. DC. Prod. IV. 520. 

 P. aurantiaca, Wall, in Eoxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey & Wall., II. 165; 

 Blume Bijdr. 962 ; Wall. Cat. 8335. Grumelia aurantiaca and 

 Chasalia expansa, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 296 and 281. 



SiNGAPOEE : Ridley 6468, 8422 ; Hnllett 904. Pahang : Bidley 

 2197. Peeak: King's Collector 6327,7168; Wray 2956; Scortechini 

 307. — DisTRiB. Borneo, Java. 



The corolla of this is larger than that of any other Malayan species of PsycJiotria, 

 being about -4 in. long when dry. 



Species Imperfectly Known. 



27. Psychotria Weayi, n. sp., King &, Gamble. A small shrub, 

 glabrous except the inflorescence ; young branches as thick as a swan's- 

 quill, terete, dark-coloured when dry. Leaves coriaceous, oblanceolate- 

 elliptic, shortly acuminate, gradually narrowed from about the middle 

 to the short, partially winged petiole ; both surfaces dark ohvaceous- 

 brown when dry, the midrib rather prominent ; main-nerves 13 to 15 

 pairs, oblique, almost straight, thin but pale and rather distinct on the 

 lower surface, indistinct on the upper ; length 6 or 7 in. ; breadth 2 to 

 2-5 in. ; petiole about -5 in., winged above. Stijyules broadly ovate, 

 sub-acute, the edges coarsely cihate, -5 in. long. Cymes terminal, on 

 short peduncles, bracteate at the base, umbeiliform, widely spreading, 

 about 4 in. broad and only half as long ; the branches 4-angled, sub- 

 compressed, pubescent, divergent. Floivers crowded at the extremities 

 of the branchlets, -25 in. long, on short thick pedicels. Calyx deeply 



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