RUBIACEAE. 419 



2. Psychotria undata Jaeq. Hort. Schoen. 3: 5. 1798. 



Fsychoiria lanceolata Nutt. Am. Journ. Sci. I. 5: 290. 1822. 

 Myrstiphyllum undatum Hitchc. Eep. Mo. Bot. Gard. 4: 95. 1893. 



A shrub, 0.5-3 m. high, the twigs, leaves and inflorescence usually gla- 

 brous, sometimes pubescent. Leaves elliptic to oblong-elliptic, chartaceous, 

 6-12 cm. long;, strongly pinnately veined, acuminate at the apex, narrowed at 

 the base, bright green abov3, pale-green beneath_, the slender petioles 15 mm. 

 long or less, the stipules connate-sheathing, deciduous; panicle sessile, several- 

 many-flowered; flowers sessile or very nearly so; calyx about 1 mm, long, its 

 limb nearly truncate; corolla white, about 4 mm. long, its lobes shorter than 

 the tube; drupe red, ellipsoid, blunt, 5-7 mm. long; pyrenae grooved. 



Pine-lands, scrub-lands and coppices, tliroughout the arcliipelago from Abaco, 

 Great Batiama, the Biminis and Andros to Watling's and Long Island : — Florida and 

 the West Indies ; Central America. ?P. asiatica of Schoepf. Wild Coffee. 



3. Psychotria li^strifdlia (Northrop) Millsp. Field Mus. Bot. 2: 172. 1906. 



Myrstiphylhim ligustrifolhim Northrop, Mem. Torr. Club 12: 68. 1902. 

 Psychotria haJiamensis Millsp.; Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3: 451. 

 1905. 



A nearly glabrous shrub, rarely more than 2.5 m. high. Leaves thin, 

 lanceolate to oblanceolate, broadest at or above the middle, narrowed to the 

 apex and to the petiole, slightly pilose beneath, especially along the mid-rib; 

 stipules large, orbicular, dimidiate-sheathing, apiculate ; inflorescence panicu- 

 late, peduncled, 4-chotomous, exceeded by the leaves; calyx with 5 short deltoid 

 teeth; corolla-tube glabrous without, bearded in a ring at the insertions of 

 the filaments within, its lobes 5, elliptic, acute, strongly deflexed, nearly as 

 long as the tube; fruit ellipsoid, red, about 5 mm. long; pyrenae plano- 

 convex, grooved. 



Pine-lands and scrub-lands, throughout the archipelago from Abaco. Great Ba- 

 hama, the Biminis and Andros to Mariguana, North Caicos and Inagua : — Florida ; 

 Bermuda ; Cuba ; Hispaniola ; Porto Rico. Smooth Wild Coffee. 



16. MORINDA L. Sp. PI. 176. 1753. 



Shrubs, vines or trees, with opposite or verticillate leaves, and mostly per- 

 fect, white or red flowers in dense terminal or axillary capitate clusters. Calyx 

 truncate or obscurely toothed. Corolla funnelform or salverform, its 4-7 lobes 

 valvate. Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes, the short filaments adnate to 

 the throat of the corolla. Ovary mostly 2-celled; styles connate; stigmas 

 slender; ovules 1 in each cavity, ascending. Fruit a fleshy syncarp. [Latin, 

 Indian Mulberry.] Forty species or more, of tropical distribution, the follow- 

 ing typical. 



1. Morinda Royoc L. Sp. PI. 176. 1753. 



A shrub, 3 m. high or less, with slender straggling branches, or a vine up 

 to 7 m. long, glabrous or very nearly so throughout. Leaves oblong to oblong- 

 oblanceolate, thin, but somewhat fleshy, 5-10 cm, long, acute or acuminate at 

 the apex, narrowed or cuneate at the base, darkening in drying, the petioles 

 5-10 mm. long, the broad persistent stipules subulate-tipped ; flowers white 

 or pinkish, in axillary, short-peduncled heads; corolla 6-8 mm. long, its oblong 

 lobes shorter than the tube; syncarp subglobose, 8-25 mm. in diameter, yellow. 



Coastal rocky plains, Abaco. Great Bahama, Andros and Eleuthera : — Florida ; 

 Cuba : Hispaniola ; Jamaica ; Bonaire ; Curacao : Aruba ; South Mexico to Colombia ; 

 recorded from Bermuda. Called Rhubarb. Wild Mulberry. 



