Psychotria.~\ LXXV. EUBIACEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) 173 



petiole stout, nerves 12-14 pair, stipules large rufous, cymes subsessile, flowers 

 crowded, bracts and bracteoles minute, fruit broadly ellipsoid, calyx-limb 

 minute. 



NICOBAR ISLANDS ; coral-reef forests on the east coast of Katchall, Kurz. 



Stem subsessile, 1-2 ft., very stout, rusty-pubescent. Leaves 6-10 by 2-4 in., 

 rather succulent, base acute, brown when dry ; petiole very stout, -1 in. ; stipules 

 -f in., broadly ovate, 2-fid. Cymes puberulous ; branches very short in a flowering 

 specimen, long and spreading in fruiting ones ; flowers pedicelled, very small. Calyx- 

 teeth ovate, acute. Corolla-tube ovoid, throat villous ; lobes acute, reflexed. Fruit 

 A in. long, glabrous, pyrenes acutely ribbed. I have very imperfect materials, and 

 depend on Kurz's character. This describes the albumen as spuriously ruminate, 

 alluding, no doubt, to the furrows. 



SECT. IV. Seeds dorsally convex and rounded, not or slightly ridged or 

 grooved. 



44. P. calocarpa, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1872, ii. 315 ; For. FL ii. 9 ; 

 subherbaceous, young parts and leaves beneath puberulous with crisped hairs 

 finally glabrate, leaves long- or short-petioled lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate 

 acuminate often variegated margins entire or broadly crenate, intra-marginal 

 nerve conspicuous, stipules large ovate often 2-fid, cymes small axillary and 

 terminal shortly peduncled, calyx-teeth slender, fruit ellipsoid or subglobose 

 crowned with the calyx-teeth. P. asiatica, Wall, in Roxb. FL 2nd., ed. Carey 

 fy Wall. ii. 160 ; Cat. 8331 ; not of Linn, or of Roxb. P. viridiflora, Reimv. 

 var. 2, Kurz For. FL ii. 13. P. picta, Wall. Cat. 8353 ; and Psychotria, 8359. 

 Psychotria, 24, 25, 26, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. 



NIPAL, Wallich. SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 2-4000 ft., J. D. H. UPPER ASSAM ; 

 Suddya, Griffith. KHASIA MTS., ascending to 4000ft., De Silva, &c. CACHAR, Keenan. 

 CHITTAGONG, MARTABAN, and TENASSERIM, Gomes;, &c. 



A small evergreen subherbaceous bush, 13 ft. hitrh, with often a creeping stem 

 sending up erect soft branches. Leaves very variable in size and shape, 4-8 by 1-3 

 in., dark or pale green when dry, narrowed into a petiole -2 in. long, shining or 

 opaque above, thinly coriaceous or membranous, nerves sometimes margined with 

 white; margin often crenate, the crenatures following the loops of the intramarginal 

 nerve; stipules usually ovate or orbicular, and 2-cuspidate, --| in. diam. Cymes 

 often secund and drooping, with spreading or reflexed fruiting branches, glabrous or 

 pubescent, lax or dense-flowered ; bracts lanceolate, caducous or subpersistent ; 

 flowers subsessile, pink greenish or white. Calyx-teeth linear, ciliate. Corolla tube 

 very short, throat villous. Fruit % in. long, succulent, orange or red ; pyrenes dor- 

 sally obscurely 4-ribbed. Seed with or without a T-shaped ventral groove. P. 

 viridifolia, Reinwdt., referred here by Kurz, is a Grumilea. I have not seen his 

 specimens, of which he makes 2 varieties : one with entire leaves and inconspicuous 

 calyx-teeth, the other (from Chittagong) with waved leaves and larger calyx-teeth. 



45. P. Thomson!, Hook. f. ; cymes pubescent, leaves petioled lanceolate 

 caudate-acuminate, intra-marginal nerve conspicuous, stipules large 2-cuspidate, 

 cymes terminal lonar-peduncled trichotomous, calyx-teeth triangular. Psy- 

 chotria, No. 25, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. fy T. 



KHASIA Mrs., Griffith (Kew Distrib. 3027); Churra, alt. 4000 ft, J. D. H. $ T. T. 



Very similar to P. calocarpa in foliage, but quite different in the elongate cyme, 

 which is stout erect and with the peduncle 3-4 in. long, and the very short broad 

 calyx-teeth. The stipules are -f in. long, orbicular, with two long cusps, and the 

 bracteoles are subulate. 



46. P. denticulata, Wall, in Roxb. FL Ind., ed. Carey $ Watt. ii. 166 ; 

 Cat. 8326 ; glabrous or leaf-nerves beneath and cymes puberulous, leaves petioled 

 large broadly elliptic or obovate or oblanceolate acute or abruptly acuminate, 



