Psychotria.] RubidCece. 357 



Pyrenes with 4 furrows on back and 2 shallow 



ones on face ; endosperm not ruminate . 7. P. SARMENTOSA. 

 Pyrenes with 2 broad furrows on back, none on 

 face ; endosperm not ruminate. 

 Fl. sessile. 



L. over 6 in., stip. ciliate . . . 8. P. Moonii. 



L. under 4 in., stip. not ciliate . . 9. P. sordida. 



Fl. pedicellate. 



Petiole over 1 in 10. P. longepetiolata. 



Petiole under \ in. 

 Lat. veins numerous. 



Cal.-segm. linear-lanceolate . . 11. P. plurivenia. 

 Cal.-limb nearly truncate . . . 12. P. filipes. 

 Lat. veins few; cal.-segm. triangular . 13. P. bisulcata. 



1. P. stenophylla, Hk.f. in Fl. B. Ind. iii. 161 (1880). 

 Grumilea stenophylla, Thw. Enum. 147. C. P. 2609. 



FL B. Ind. iii. 161. 



A much dichotomously branched bush,branchlets thickened 

 at the nodes, smooth and shining; 1. 3-5 in., linear or linear- 

 lanceolate, tapering at both ends, acute, quite glabrous, midrib 

 broad, conspicuous, lat. veins scarcely visible, rather coriaceous, 

 margins somewhat recurved, pale green, petiole very short or 

 none with a tuft of brown hair in axil, stip. large, connate, 

 ovate, obtuse, glabrous, caducous ; fl. sessile, surrounded with 

 ferrugineous hair, in small globose, stalked clusters, usually in 

 a whorl of 4, and a terminal one forming a small pedunculate, 

 pyramidal cyme (occasionally axillary) ; cal.-segm. very shallow, 

 cor.-tube very short, pilose in throat, lobes 4, ovate, acute; 

 berry \ in., broadly ovoid, shining, bright purple ; pyrenes 

 without furrows, endosperm ruminate. 



Moist low country to 2000 ft.; rare. Nillowe Kande; Ratnapura; 

 Reigam Korale ; Ambagamuwa. Fl. Feb., March ; green. 

 Endemic. 



2. P. g-landulifera, Thw. ex Hk.f. Fl. B. Ind. iii. 161 (1880). 

 C. P. 391 1. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 161. 



Shrub, branchlets glabrous ; 1. 4-7 in., oblong-lanceolate, 

 acute at base, suddenly acuminate, acute, glabrous, pale be- 

 neath, with the lat. veins conspicuous, and with large and 

 deep glandular pits in their axils, petiole \-\ in., stip. as in 

 the last; fl. few, nearly sessile, in short, sessile, trichotomous 

 cymes; cal.-limb long, segm. very shallow, acute; berry | in., 

 ovoid, crowned with large cal.-limb. 



Only found near Adam's Peak, where the C. P. specimens (in bud and 

 fruit; wore collected, March, 1866. 



Endcrin' . 



I have seen only the C. P. specimens, and unfortunately the fruit is 

 not sufficiently ripe to show the character of the seed. 



