Psychotria.] LXXV. RUBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 163 



lower pair of branches long spreading rachis above them arrested, flowers in 

 many small heads terminating the branehlets, fruit globose areole small. Psy- 

 chotria ? Wall. Cat. 8345. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; Shevagherry and Dindygul hills, Wight. 



Branches stout, smooth. Leaves 6-8 by 2-3 in., green and rather flaccid when 

 dry, base narrowed into a petiole ^1^ in. ; nerves distant, about 10 pair; stipules 

 caducous, variable, sometimes toothed. Cymes large, 3-4 in. diam. ; peduncles stout, 

 3 in. and less, lower pair of branches ascending or .recurved branched at the end, and 

 bearing small heads -5- in. diam. of glabrous flowers ; bracts caducous. Calyx-limb 

 membranous, teeth very short, obtuse or acute. Corolla-tube broadly shortly funnel- 

 shaped, mouth villous. Fruit in. diam., smooth. Seed ^-terete, Ventral face flat, 

 albumen ruminated. Wight's originally distributed specimens have a terminal cyme, 

 with an elongated rachis ; all the numerous others have the rachis exceeded in height 

 by the ends of the lower branches of the cyme. 



8. P. t rune at a, Watt, in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey $ Wall. ii. 162', 

 glabrous, leaves large cuneate-obovate or orbicular rarely elliptic-obovate 

 abruptly apiculate coriaceous base cuneate, nerves 14-16 pair close and strong, 

 stipules very large, cymes peduncled or sessile brachiate, lower branches 

 whorled, berry ellipsoid. P. Heyneana, Wall. Cat. 8327, in part. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; on the Grhats from Concan southwards, Heyne, &c. 



Branches stout, smooth. Leaves 6-8 by 3-4 in., pale green when dry, narrowed 

 into a stout petiole ^-lg in., upper surface usually raised between the spreading 

 nerves; stipules sometimes 1 in., broadly ovate or oblong, free or connate below, 

 coriaceous. Cymes terminal, often short and dense in flower, in fruit 5-6 in. diam., 

 stout, 3 in. and under ; branches long or short ; bracts deciduous ; flowers small, sub- 

 sessile. Calyx-limb truncate. Corolla-tube very short, glabrous, mouth with a fringe 

 of hairs. Berry \ in., smooth. Seed ^-terete, ventral face flat ; albumen ruminate. 

 The ticket of Heyne marked March 20, 1837, identifies the H. Heyneana of Wallich's 

 catalogue with the H. truncata of his and Carey's edition of the " Flora Indica." 



9. P. Dalzellii, Hook. f. ; glabrous, very robust, leaves obovate or 

 oblong- or obcuneate-obovate coriaceous tip obtuse or rounded, base cuneate, 

 nerves 12-20 pair strong, stipules very large, cymes terminal peduncled 

 brachiate, branches whorled very stout with terminal capitate flowers, and 

 large persistent bracts. P. bracteata, W. $ A. Prodr. 434, not of DC. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; from Canara southwards. 



Branches sometimes as thick as the little finger, smooth, cylindric. Leaves 5-10 

 by 2-4 in., pale or black when dry, nerves strong on both surfaces ; petiole very 

 short, stout; stipules broadly oblong or orbicular, coriaceous, sometimes in. diam., 

 axils glabrous. Cyme-peduncle 3 in. or less, lower branches 4-5 in a whorl, 1-2 in. ; 

 bracts - in., broadly ovate or orbicular, very coriaceous ; bracteoles concave as long 

 as and forming an involucre round the heads of flowers. Calyx-teeth 5, short, rounded, 

 ciliate. Corolla-tube in., glabrous, throat villous. Fruit young, glabrous, crowned 

 with the enlarged calyx-limb. Dalzell has called this a Grumtiea. I have seen no 

 ripe fruit. 



** Cyme-branches opposite, whorled in 15. P. malayana. 



10. P. elongata, Wight Ic. t. 1036 (Grumilea) ; glabrous, leaves elliptic 

 or obovate obtuse subacute or cuspidate, base cuneate, nerves ] 0-14 pair, axils 

 sometimes perforated, uppermost stipules connate obtuse, cymes terminal, fruitn 

 ing elongate racemiform, branches very short opposite and peduncles very stout, 

 flowers crowded, fruit globose, calyx-limb minute. Psychotria, Wall. Cat. 8350. 



NILGHERRY and SHEVAGHERRY HILLS, Noton, &c. CEYLON ; Central Province, alt. 

 7000 ft., Thwaites. 



Shrubby. Leaves 3-5 by 1^-2^ in., pale when dry; nerves slender, spreading; 



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