r-xx. la'iiiACE.Tf. 01/5 



or ellipsoid, lleshy, j' in. in diain. — Flowers : Apr. T.-ilb. Trees, Bomb, 

 ed. 2, p. 19(5. Morinda lomentosa (sp.), lieyiie, in K(;tli, Nov. PI. Sp. 

 (1821) p. 147 ; Ualz. & Gibs. p. 114. 



Deccan: Cbattcrsingi liill near Poona, B/iival; Sliolapiir districts, Woodrow \ ; 

 Gokiik jungles, Hifchir, 1785!; Hotgi, Coohc\ S. M. CoUNTiiy : Badaini, Wondrow \ 

 Kanaka: Kunii/Mrl 



23. PSYCHOTRIA, Linn. 



Shnibs or small trees, usually erect. Leaves opposite, rarelv \vborl(d ; 

 stipules intrapetiolur, often connate, solitary or in pairs, ol'teii with 

 glandular hairs. Flowers in terminal (rarely axillary) cymes, heads 

 or fascicles, bracteate or not. Calyx-tiibe short ; limb often deciduous. 

 Corolla-tube straight, short (in the Indian species), throat naked or 

 hairy ; lobes 5, rarely 4 or 6, valvate in bud. Stamens as many as the 

 corolla-lobes, inserted on the throat or mouth of the corolla; filaments 

 short or long ; anthers included or exsertcd. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 

 solitary in each cell, basal, erect, anatropous, usually cuneate ; style 

 long or short, with 2 brandies. Fruit small, ovoid, globose or oblonu' 

 (rarely didymous), with 2 plano-convex 1-seeded pyrenes, rarely separating 

 into 2 cocci. Seeds usually plano-convex (the ventral base rarely 

 concave), often longitudinally grooved ; testa thin ; albumen hard, some- 

 times ruminate; embryo small, basal; cotyledons broad, thin; radicle 

 inferior. — Distuib. Tropics of the world ; species about 500. 



Albumen ruminate. 



(Jynie-branc-lies wliorlod. 



Flowers mixed wii h reddisli-brown bair8 1, P. TJncaitesii. 



Flowers not mixed with reddisli-brown hairs. 



Calyx truncate, teeth or obscure ; seeds without dorsal 



i-idges 2. P. fruncafa. 



Calyx-teeth distinct, with membranous ciliate margins; 



seeds with 1 dorsal ridge 3. P, DuheUii. 



Cyme-branches opposite, brigbt-yellow in fruit; seeds with 



1 dorsal ridge 4. P.flacida. 



Albumen uniform (not ruminate). 



Cyme-branches opposite or whorled ; seeds with 1 dorsal 



ridge .5. P. canarensis. 



Cyme-branches opiiosite ; seeds witii 4 dorsal ridges 6. P. octosulcata. 



1. Psychotria Thwaitesii, Hool-. f. FJ. B. I. y. 3 (1880) p. 162. 

 A stout glabrous shrub ; branchlets smooth, compressed. Leaves 4-8 

 by l2-2| in., subcoriaceous, elliptic-obloug, obovate-oblong or oblong- 

 lanceolate, acuminate or acute, glabrous ; base tapering into the petiole • 

 main nerves 12-15 pairs, prominent; petioles i-| in. long ; stipules 

 variable, usually broadly ovate, acute, small. Flowers sessile or nearly 

 sessile, with reddish-brown hairs at their bases, in small round heads on 

 the usually whorled glabrous branches of pyramidal pedunoled cymes. 

 Calyx yV in, long ; limb deciduous ; segments broad. Corolla | in. 

 long ; tube short, straight, with a few white hairs at the mouth ; lobes 

 jij iu. long, oblong, obtuse. Fruit ellipsoid or subglobose, ^-| in. in 

 diam., marked with the scar of but not crowned by the calyx-limb- 

 pyrenes without furrows, plano-convex. Seeds plano-convex ; albuiuen 

 very ruminate. Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 358 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, 

 p. i97 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Xat. v. 11 (1898) p. ()4(i. — Flowers ; 

 Mar. -Apr. 



