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PsYCHOTRIA TRIVIALIS sp. n. 
Glabrous; branchlets slender, lax; stipules 2 or 3 mm. long, 
triangular-ovate, acute, deciduous; leaves .5 to 1 dm. long, 2-3 
cm. broad, oblong-ovate, the base tapering into a short petiole, 
the apex abruptly acuminate, acute, entire, thin, pale, the primaries 
or 8 pairs, strongly ascending ; peduncles solitary, terminal, 1— . 
3 cm. long, sharply angled, the panicles 3 or 4 cm. long and broad, 
opum the i slender pedicels 2 or 3 mm. long; flowers 
seen; fruit at urity depressed-globose, 4 or 5 mm. broad, 
um calysclimb enk, bright red, the seed licht aet deeply 
sulcate 
Espirito Santo, 1891 (1186)—Schlimm's No. 584, from New 
Granada, 4,000 ft. 
PSYCHOTRIA LUXURIANS Sp. n. 
ous, except the minutely puberulent inflorescence ; 
branchlets elongated, ascending, somewhat quadrangular; stipules 
connate, 6 or 7 mm. long and broad, triangular, acute, entire ; 
leaves 1.25—2.5 dm. long, .5-1 dm. broad, oval, the base very 
abruptly acuminate into a short petiole, the apex similarly point- 
ed ; entire, bright green, pale underneath, very thin, the primaries 
about 16 pairs, falcate-ascending ; pedun ncles .8-1 dm. long, 
purplish, quadrangular, the panicle 1-2 dm. long, 1-1.5 dm 
broad, pyramidal, obtuse, loose, the rhachis flexuous, the ee 
divaricat e, the bracts linear-oblanceolate, herbaceous, 1—I.5 
ong; ridus actually sessile, but mostly appearing aa EAN ba 
terminating the branchlets ; bud ovoid, with rounded apex; calyx 
green, turbinate- -campanulate, I.5 mm. long, toothed midway, the 
teeth acute, tardily, if at all, deciduous; corolla infundibular, about 
4 mm. long, the pod obtusish lobes 1.5 mm. long ; fruit 3 or 4 
mm. long, deeply sulca 
Between Tipuani xe Guanai, Dec., 1892 (1741) — Mathews, 
Peru, 1167. Very near P. platyphylla DC. 
Psychotria rigida Kunth, Nov. Gen. 3: 289. Var. BREVIPES var. nov. 
Differs from the type in the petioled leaves and very short and 
stout branchlets, peduncles and branches of the po all of 
which are blackish. 
Between Tipuani and Guanai, Dec., 1892 (1667). 
Psychotria—specimen not matched at Kew, but cannot be deter- 
mined without flowers. Espirito Santo, 1891 (1184). 
Psychotria—unfit for determination. Between Tipuani and Guanai, 
Dec., 1892 (1727). | 
Palicourea riparia Benth. Hook. Journ. Bot. 3: (1841) 224. Es- 
pirito Santo, 1891 (1243). - 
