Psychotria.'] LXXV. RUBIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 175 



SPECIES OF WHICH THE FRUIT IS UNKNOWN. 



49. P. polyneura, Kurz in Land. Journ. Sot. 1875, 327 ; For. Fl. ii. 

 11, not of DC., all parts except the leaves above ferruginous-pubescent or 

 -tomentose, leaves very large long-petioled broadly or narrowly elliptic acute 

 at both ends, nerves 30 pair close-set and spreading, stipules very large, cymes 

 terminal small subsessile trichotomous ebracteolate, flowers sessile crowded. 



SOUTH ANDAMAN ISLAND, Kurz. 



Branches stout. Leaves 7-12 by 3|-5i in., membranous, red-brown when dry, 

 nerves slender ; petiole 2-2| in. ; stipules f in. broadly ovate, conuate, entire or cleft 

 at the top. Cymes densely tomentose, 23 in. diam., branches spreading ; flowers 

 small. Calyx minutely 5-toothed. Corolla-tube very short. Habit a good deal of 

 P. Helferiana, but less hirsute, with fewer nerves, and wanting the bracteoles. 



50. P. penang-ensis, Hook. f. ; scandent, glabrous, leaves rhombic- 

 elliptic or -obovate abruptly acuminate narrowed into the petiole, nerves very 

 obscure, cymes terminal long-peduncled, branches umbellate, flowers pedicelled 

 umbellate, bracts and bracteoles persistent. 



PENANG ; top of Government Hill, Maingay. 



Dark brown or blackish when dry, apparently rather fleshy when fresh. Leaves 

 4-5 by lf-2 in., thin when dry, nerves 6-8 pair, very spreading and arched; petiole 

 -1 in. ; stipules rounded, connate, persistent. Cymes with a very stout erect peduncle 

 2-3 in.; primary branches about 5, stout, f-1^ in.; bracts \ in., subulate; umbel- 

 lules \ in. diam., very many-flowered ; pedicels ^- in., bracteoles subulate. Calyx- 

 tube obconic ; teeth triangular, glabrous or puberulous. Corolla-tube broad, much 

 longer than the calyx, hoary ; throat hirsute. Fruit (unripe) stoutly pedicelled r ^- 

 in. long, narrowly ellipsoid, furrowed, crowned by the calyx-teeth. 



51. P. Johnsoni, Hook. f. ; glabrous, leaves obovate or elliptic-obo- 

 vate or oblanceolate acute or abruptly acuminate tapering into a very short 

 petiole, nerves 6-10 pair very slender, cymes terminal sessile or subsessile very 

 small short ovoid or subglobose dense-flowered ebracteolate villous at the base, 

 flowers sessile. Psychotria, Watt. Cat. 8352. 



WESTERN PENINSULA; Cochin, Wight (Kew Distrib. 1442), Johnson. 



Branches stout, smooth, terete, pale. Leaves 3-5 by 1^-2 in., pale when dry, 

 rather coriaceous, nerves finely reticulate ; stipules ovate, acute or rounded and cus- 

 pidate, coriaceous, glabrous. Cymes very rarely effuse and l in. diam. ; peduncle 

 or short, arising out of long villous hairs ; branches stout, short, opposite ; flowers 

 subternate, very small, glabrous. Corolla very shortly funnel-shaped, throat villous. 

 A very distinct species, of which I have seen no fruit. 



52. P. nudiflora, W.fyA. Prodr. 434 ; glabrous, leaves obovate cuneate- 

 obovate or oblanceolate abruptly acuminate narrowed into the petiole, nerves 

 12-15 pair very slender, stipules connate ovate obtuse, cymes peduncled sub- 

 capitate or shortly panicled ebracteolate, calyx-limb truncate, corolla-tube 

 elongate cylindric. Psychotria, Wall. Cat. 8346. 



TRAVANCORE, Heyne ; Courtallam, Wight. 



Branches smooth. Leaves 4-7 by l-2 in., brown or greenish when dry, thin ; 

 nerves hardly stronger than the veins, very spreading; petiole -f in.; stipules -^ 

 in., coriaceous, broad, obtuse. Cyme-peduncle 1 in. and less; branches opposite sub- 

 opposite and obscurely whorled, very stout, short, irregularly dichotomously divided ; 

 flowers nearly i in. long. Calyx very short, limb quite entire. Corolla the longest 

 of the Indian species^ 4-1 obed, glabrous without and within. Wight labels this 

 Grumilea, but there is no fruit advanced enough to determine this point. 



DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



P. WALLICHIANA, DC. Prodr. iv. 520. P. nervosa, Don Prodr. 137; "leaves oval 



