Psychotria.] LXXV. RUBIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 169 



Shrubby. Leaves 5-7 by 1-2^ in., green when dry, rather thin, base narrowed 

 into a petiole |-f in., nerves slender ; stipules with often 2 recurved acute lobes. 

 Cymes 1 in. diam., often inclined; branches flattened, soon dividing; bracts elongate, 

 slender. Calyx minute; teeth broad or narrow, subacute, sometimes glandular. 

 Corolla-tube very short, hairy within. Fruit -^ in., red and yellowish, grooves 

 shallow. Seed undulated on the ventral face. This is one of the very few species 

 that wanders westward as far as the valley of Nipal. 



VAR. latifolia ; leaves broadly elliptic. Khasia Mts., De Silva. Psychotria sp., 

 Wall. Cat. 8340. 



VAR. pedunculata ; cymes axillary, peduncle 1-2 in. Nipal, Wallich. Psychotria, 

 Wall. Cat. 8369. 



29. P. fulva, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 8336, excl. B. ; glabrous or pubescent, 

 branches stout, leaves petioled elliptic oblong obovate or lanceolate, stipules 

 large cleft, cymes axillary and terminal peduncled or sessile, branches trichoto- 

 mous or whorled, flowers usually in dense globose heads, bracts broad often 

 whorled persistent, fruit large ellipsoid 8-grooved, calyx-limb persistent. P. 

 inonticola, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1872, ii. 315 ; For. Fl. ii. 11. Psychotria, 

 Watt. Cat. 8337 ; Griff. Notul. iv. 268 ; Ic. PL Asiat. t. 479, f. 2. 



ASSAM and the KHASIA MTS., ascending to 4000 ft. ; CACHAR, MUNNIPORE, and 

 PEGU. 



A large shrub. Leaves a foot long and under, very variable in breadth, usually 

 narrowed intp the petiole, rarely rounded at the base, variously coloured when dry, 

 often purplish-brown or reddish, thinly coriaceous ; nerves slender, spreading, some- 

 times pubescent beneath; petiole ^-1 in.; stipules -1 in., axils villous, segments 

 sometimes hooked and recurved. Cymes large or small, rarely 2 in. across ; peduncle 

 4 in. or less, pubescent or villous ; branches stout, short or long ; bracts and bracteoles 

 excessively variable, more or less persistent ; flowers subsessile, glabrous or pubescent. 

 Calyx minute; teeth 5, short or long. Corolla-tube short, glabrous, villous within. 

 Fruit capitate, ^- in. long, variable in shape, ellipsoid or ovoid, sometimes narrowed 

 towards the top ; grooves very shallow. Seed flat ventrally, with or without a 2-fid 

 groove. A very variable plant, covered with yellowish flowers in May, whence its 

 name, which, never having been published, would be superseded by Kurz's of P. mon- 

 ticola, were not the plant to which he gave that name an aberrant form, which is 

 moreover erroneously described as glabrous in the Forest Flora ; under which circum- 

 stances, and considering that the name monticola has been since applied to a tropical 

 African species, it is advisable to retain Hamilton's appropriate one of fulva for this 

 species. 



VAR. monticola; leaves more coriaceous, nerves distant pubescent beneath. P. 

 monticola, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1872, ii. 315; For. Fl. ii. 11. Karen hills, 

 Kurz. 



30. P. tortilis, Blume Bijd. 958 ; subherbaceous, stem simple, leaves 

 long-petioled broadly elliptic-ovate acute membranous puberulous beneath, base 

 cuneate rarely cordate, nerves 15-20 pair, veins reticulate, cymes all axillary 

 small subsessile rounded, fruit very small didymous compressed, grooves 8 very 

 shallow. DC. Prodr. iv. 520. P. microcarpa, Wall Cat. 8344. Streblosa 

 tortilis, Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. ii. 246. 



PENANG, Wallich ; SINGAPORE, Lobb. DISTRIB. Java, Sumatra. 



Stem 1 foot from a woody base, sparsely pubescent. Leaves 4-7 by 2- 4^ in., green 

 when dry, very membranous ; nerves spreading, slender ; petiole very slender, 1-2 in. ; 

 stipules ovate, acute, or broader with a long cusp. Cymes often from all the axils, 

 pubescent, contracted and dense-flowered but not capitate ; pedicels rarely 1-2 in. ; 

 bracts very small ; flowers minute. Calyx-teeth very minute, triangular. Corolla-tube 

 very short, hairy within. Fruit yV~i^ ^ n - di am -> broader than long, pale. Seed flat 

 on the ventral face. A very peculiar species, quite unlike any other in habit and 

 fruit. 



