418 RUBIACEAE. 



united at the base; anthers narrowly oblong, connate. Ovary 2-celled; ovules 

 1 in each cavity, erect, anatropous; style pubescent; stigma 2-lobed. Fruit a 

 small fleshy drupe, containing 1 or 2 stones. Seed oblong; endosperm fle&hy; 

 embryo minute. [Named for Karl Strumpf, professor in Halle.] A mono- 

 typic West Indian genus. 



1. Strumpfia maritima Jaeq. Enum. 28. 1760. 



A shrub 2 m. high or less, the rather stout twigs densely pubescent or 

 puberulent, scarred by the persistent stipule-bases. Leaves 1-2.5 cm. long, 

 apiculate, pubescent when young, the margins revolute so as to meet and cov^er 

 the under surface; peduncles pubescent, 2-10 mm. long; calyx about 1 mm. 

 long; calyx-lobes triangular-ovate, acute; corolla pubescent, 3-4 mm. long, 

 its short tube campanulate, its lobes much longer than the tube; drupes 

 white or red, 3-6 mm. in diameter. 



Coastal rocks and rocky plains, throughout the archipelago from Abaco, Great 

 Bahama and Andros to Grand Turk and Inagua : — Florida ; West Indies and Cozu- 

 mel. Strumpfia. 



15. PSYCHOTRIA L. Syst. ed. 10, 929. 1759. 



Shrubs or trees, rarely perennial herbs, with opposite or rarely verticillate 

 leaves, the stipules persistent or deciduous, the small flowers in terminal 

 corymbs or panicles, rarely in axillary fascicles. Calyx short, the limb 4-5- 

 toothed. Corolla funnelform or subcampanulate, the limb 4-5-lobed, the lobes 

 valvate. Stamens 5, borne on the corolla-tube, the filaments mostly short, the 

 anthers linear or oblong. Ovary 2-celled; ovules 1 in each cavity, erect, anat- 

 ropous; style short or elongated; stigma 2-cleft. Fruit a globose to oblong 

 drupe containing 2 pyrenae, smooth, angled or ribbed. Seed convex; endo- 

 sperm fleshy or cartilaginous. [Greek, to give life, from supposed medicinal 

 properties.] A very large genus, containing 500 species or more, natives of 

 tropical and subtropical America. Type species: Psychotria asiatica L., of 

 Jamaica. 



Fruit subdidymous, broader than long; pyrenae angled. 1. P. piibescens. 

 Fruit ellipsoid ; pyrenae furrowed. 



Panicles sessile. 2. P. undata. 



Panicles stalked. 3. P. Ugustrifolia. 



1. Psychotria pubescens Sw. Prodr. 44. 1788. 



Myrstiphylhim puhescens Hitchc. Eep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 4: 95. 1893. 



A shrub, 3 m. high or less, rarely a small tree 5 m. high, the branches 

 slender, sometimes constricted at the nodes, the twigs, leaves and inflorescence 

 finely pubescent or puberulent, rarely glabrous. Leaves membranous, elliptic 

 to oblong-lanceolate, 7-15 cm. long, acuminate at the apes, narrowed at the 

 base, prominently pinnately veined, the slender petioles 8-18 mm, long, the 

 subulate geminate stipules united by their broad bases; panicles peduncled, 

 usually many-flowered; pedicels very short; calyx about 1 mm. long, its teeth 

 ovate; corolla yellow, whitish or pinkish, 4-5 mm. long, usually puberulent 

 outside, pubescent in the throat, its oblong lobes shorter than the tube; drupe 

 subglobose, black, 3-4 mm. in diameter, the pyrenae angled. 



Pine-lands and coppices, Abaco, Great Bahama. Andros and New Providence : — 

 Cuba to St. Thomas ; St. Kitts ; Jamaica. Hairy Wild Coffee. 



