616 LXX. RTJBIACE.Ti. 



TC AXAR.v : Soutliern Gln'its of N. Kanara in evergreen forests ; common on the 

 Nilkund Ghiit, Talbot; Falls of Gairsoppa, Talbot, ^bSl 



A"ab. peninsular is, Hook. f. Fl. B. I. 1. c. Leaves smaller, more 

 obovate ; cymes always sessile, their branches moderate or short, or 0, or 

 the inflorescence a peduncled globose head. 

 KoNKAN : Law, 34 ! 



2. Psychotria truncata, Wall, in Roxh. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, v. 2 

 (1824) p. 162. A stout erect glabrous shrub. Leaves 4-7 by 2-3 in., 

 green above, pale beneath, obovate, shortly and abruptly acuminate, 

 margins slightly recurved, base cuueate ; main nerves 14-16 pairs, 

 arcuate, very prominent ; petioles |-1 in. long, stout ; stipules large, 

 reaching sometimes 1 in. and even more in length, combined into a 

 sheath, very caducous. Flowers sessile or shortly pedicelled, in dense 

 terminal cymes ; branches long or short, usually whorled. Calyx J^ in. 

 long, broadly campanulate, truncate ; teeth or very obscure. Corolla 

 waxy-white ; tube -^-^ in. long, straight, broad, glabrous outside, with a 

 I'ing of hairs at the mouth ; lobes g in. long, oblong, subacute. Fruit 

 ellipsoid, \ in. long, smooth, crowned by the truncate calyx ; pyrenes 

 without furrows, plano-convex. Seeds plano-convex ; albumen rumi- 

 nate. Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 197 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 11 (1S98) p. 646. Griimilea vaginnans, Dalz. in Dalz. & Gibs. Bo. Fl. 

 (1861) p. 111. Grumilea congesta, Grab, Cat. p. 92 (not of Wight & 

 Arn.). — Flowers : Apr.-May. 



Deccan : Mabableshwar, Cooke !, Woodrow ; near Carnac Point, Mahablesbwar, 

 H. M. Birdwood. S. M. Country : Chorla Ghat, Ritchie, 171)2 ! Kanaka. : Law ! ; 

 Mendele, Ritchie, 1792!; Diggi, Woodrow; evergreen forests of N. Kanara Ghdts, 

 Talbot. — DiSTUiB. India (W. Peninsula). 



3. Psychotria Dalzellii, Hooh.f. Fl. B. I. v. 3 (1880) p. 163. A 

 lar"-e shrub reaching 20 ft. high ; stem 2 in. in diam. at the base, not 

 much branched. Leaves coriaceous, 5|-9 by 2-3:^ in., obovate-oblong, 

 rounded and apiculate at the apex, glabrous, cuneate at the base ; main 

 nerves 12-20 pairs, prominent ; petioles ^-| in. long, stout ; stipules 

 I in. long, broadly ovate, acuminate. Flowers in terminal peduncled 

 brachiate cymes ; branches whorled, the lower usually in whorls of 5, 

 subtended by 4 large bracts, the upper in whorls of 3 subtended by 2 

 bracts ; branches of the lower whorl often reaching 2 in. long ; each 

 branch carrying a head of 1-5 sessile or nearly sessile flowers surrounded 

 by large oblong or suborbicular more or less cucuUate bracteoles. Calyx 

 broadly campauulate, glabrous, i in. long ; teeth a little shorter than 

 the tube, oblong, rounded or truncate at the apex, emarginate, the 

 margins membranous, ciliate. Corolla-tube very short, straight, densely 

 bearded in the throat ; lobes I by ^ in., ovate-oblong, acute. Fruit | in. 

 in diam., subglobose, smooth, succulent, black when ripe, edible, crowned 

 by the calyx-limb ; pyrenes with 1 conspicuous dorsal ridge. Seeds 

 plano-convex, rugose, with a conspicuous dorsal ridge ; albumen 

 ruminate. Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 197; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Kat. V. 11 (1898) p. 646. Fni/choiria bracteata, Wiglit & Arn. Prodr. 

 (1834) p. 434 (not of DC). — Flowers : June-July. 



The name P. bracteata given to the plant by Wight & Arn. (1834) 

 had been given by DC. in 1830 to a dift'erent plant, a native of Guiana. 



