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Konkan: S/ocl-s'.,I)ahe!/]; Banda {Wnri Cmmtry), Ka)iif/,-nr< Kan-aua: M'ondrowl; 

 coinnion thruiigliout. tlio evergreen furests of N. Kaiiara, Talbot; Yellapur, Talhot, 

 235!— DisTRiit. India (W. Peninsula), apparently endemic. 



■\. Psychotria flavida, Talbot, Trees 4- Shrubs, Bomb. eel. 1 (1894) 

 p. 1 13. A small sliriil). Leaves coriaceous, 4-10 by 2-4 in., elliptic- 

 oblong, acute or shortly acunli^at<^ glabrous, tapering to the base ; 

 main nerves 10-12 pairs; petioles |-j] in. long; stipules ovate, acumi- 

 nate, deciduous. Flowers numerous, small, in terminal pethuioled 

 cymes; i)ediincles 1-2 in. long; cyme-branches opposite^, Haltened, 

 shorter than the peduncles ; pedicels very short ; bracts leafy, deciduous. 

 Calyx -i\— ,V i'^' ^ong, truncate ; teeth obscure or 0. Corolla ,1 in. long ; 

 tube j-'y in. long, densely hairy in the throat inside. Fruit | in, in diam., 

 ellipsoid, compressed, crowned with the calyx, black when ripe ; pyrenes 

 with 1 dorsal ridge. Seeds plano-convex, with a narrow dorsal ridge, 

 rugose, black; albumen ruminate. Cyme-branches turning bright 

 yellow in fruit. Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 107. Closely allied to 

 P. nudijlora, Wight & Arn., from which it differs by the short corolla- 

 tube which is densely hairy within, that of P. nudijlora being longer 

 and glabrous inside. — Flowers: May-July. A''erx. Shivan-Yallulci. 



KoNKAX : HuJtciihac/irr.'iS') al, Law] Kanaka: abundant in tlie evergreen Atrests 

 of Sirsi and Siddapur; Ilulikal, Tn/hof, 3661 ! ; Ghats near Yellapnr, Tut6o(, 2'M ! — 

 DisTRiB. Konkan and Kanara, apparently endemic. 



5. Psychotria canarensis, Talbot, Trees 4' Shrubs, Bomb. ed. 1 

 (1894) p. 113. A small erect shrub uitli smooth branches. Leaves 2-5 

 by |-1| in., ovate, obovate, or lanceolate, acute, thin, nearly glabrous, 

 minutely punctate aud pale beneath, attenuate at the base ; main nerves 

 8 pairs, distinctly looping within the margin ; petioles i in. long ; 

 stipules short, acute, caducous. Flowers small, sessile, in few- or many- 

 flowered mostly terminal cymes 1-3 in. long ; branches opposite or 

 whorled, slender, as long as or longer than the peduncles ; bracts and 

 bracteoles minute, linear, caducous. Calyx short, tubular, 4-tootlied. 

 Corolla white, tubular or slightly fnnnel-shaped, the mouth of the tube 

 hairy inside ; lobes 4, spreading or reflexed. Stamens at the mouth of 

 the tube ; filaments very short. Ovary 4-lobed ; style as long as tlu; 

 corolla-tube. Fruit ovoid, slightly curved, black, shining, ridged, about 

 g in. long, crowned \^ ith the toothed calyx. Seeds with 1 ridge along 

 the back, ventrally flat; albumen uniform. There is but 1 specimen in 

 Herb. Kew. (in fruit). Thedescri[)tion has been taken from Mr. Talbot 

 (l. c). Talb. in Jotirn. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. G91, t. 12; Trees, 

 Bomb. ed. 2, p. 197. 



Kanara : moist evergreen forests near the Falls of Gairsoppa in X. Kanara, 

 Talbot ! — DiSTiUB. Apparently endemic. 



6. Psychotria octosulcata, Talbot, in Jonm. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 V. 11 (1S97) p. 237, t. 7. An erect shrtib 10-20 ft. high ; stem 1-2 in. 

 in diani. at the base ; bark smooth ; branches green, glabrous. Leaves 

 thin, 3-6 by 1-2 in., elliptic, obovate, or oblanceolate, shortly and 

 abruptly acuminate, shining above, pale beneath, glabrous, base much 

 tapered; main nerves 8-10 pairs, prominent, frequently with galls in 

 their axils ; petioles \-^ in. long ; stipules connate at the base, acuminate, 

 deciduous. Flowers white, in short terminal corymbose cymes 1-2 in. 

 long ; branches opposite. Calvx Jj in. long ; teeth 5, minute, triangular. 



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