356 RtlbidCece. [Psychotria. 



forming a short tube ; fl. moderate in size, 1-4, usually in 

 pairs at end of twigs, ped. 1-1J in., slender, divaricate; cal. 

 glabrous; cor.-lobes oblong, acute, excavated at base, about 

 as long as tube ; fil. very short ; fruit f in., nearly globose, 

 broader than long and very slightly didymous, purple. 



Var. j3, Ferguson!!, Trim. P. Fergusonii, Thw.* ex. Bedd. FL 

 Sylv. Fl. Man. 134, 10. Fl. B. Ind. iii. 159. 



Pedicels 5-10, in terminal usually stalked umbels, corolla- 

 segments less fleshy. 



Moist region, rare, extending up to 4000 ft. Between Negombo and 

 Kurunegale; Ambagamuwa; Dolosbagie ; Maskeliya. Var. /?, Colombo 

 (Ferguson). Fl. March, April ; yellowish-white, sweet-scented. 



Also in Khasia, Burma, Malaya; not in Peninsular India. 



Var. /3 is maintained as a species in Fl. B. Ind. on the ground of 

 Beddome's statement that the corolla-lobes are imbricate. This, is, 

 however, not the case; the aestivation is strictly valvate, the prismatic 

 lobes forming an angular bud. Indeed, their extremely fleshy nature 

 necessitates a valvate or reduplicate-valvate aestivation. The stipules, 

 exude a resinous gum. I have never seen 4-merous flowers. 



39. PSVCKOTRIA,t L. (part). 



Shrubs, rarely climbing, branchlets usually compressed 

 and glabrous, stip. various, often connate, fl. small-, in terminal 

 cymes usually without bracts ; cal.-limb long or short, segm. 

 broad or narrow, sometimes caducous ; cor.-tube short, straight, 

 hairy or glabrous in throat, lobes 5 (rarely 4), valvate; stam. 

 inserted in throat of cor. ; ov. 2-celled, with one erect ovule in 

 each cell, stigmas 2 ; fruit small, berry-like, with 2 plano- 

 convex, i-seeded pyrenes; endosperm plane or ruminate. — 

 Sp. 500; 52 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Nine of our 13 species are endemic. 



Pyrenes without furrows on either surface; endosperm ruminate {Grumilea)* 

 Branches of cyme whorled. 

 Leaves glabrous. 



Lat. veins invisible . . . . 1. P. STENOPHYLLA. 

 Lat. veins conspicuous. 

 Berry \ in. long. 

 Cal.-limb long . . . 2. P. glandulifera. 



Cal.-limb very short 

 Berry near \ in. long . 

 Leaves hairy beneath 

 Branches of cyme in pairs . 



3. P. Gardneri. 



4. P. Thwaitesii. 



5. P. Wightiana. 



6. P. ELONGATA. 



* Thwaites informed me that he had no recollection of bestowing 

 this as a specific name, and that he never considered the plant specifically 

 distinct from P. albidiflora. 



+ Psychotria altered from PsychotroftJnim, the name given to a W. 

 Indian plant by P. Browne, now Psychotria Brownei, Spreng. 



