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22. PsYCHOTRiA FULVOiDEA, n. sp., King & Gamble. A small 

 shrub ; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, dark- coloured, 

 glabrous. Leaves membranous, narrowly elliptic, acuminate, crenu- 

 late, the base cuneate ; upper surface glabrous, dark brown when dry, 

 the lower reddish-brown ; the midrib, nerves and reticulations rusty- 

 pubescent, otherwise glabrous ; midrib prominent on both surfaces, 

 the 10 to 14 pairs of spreading, curving main-nerves slightly prominent 

 on the lower ; length 6 to 7 in. ; breadth 2 to 2'5 in. ; petiole 1 to 

 1-3 in. Stipules membranous, ovate, caudate-acuminate, the edges 

 irregularly serrate, ciliate, length about 1 in. Cymes axillary, trichoto- 

 mous, condensed, about 2 in. broad when in fruit and 1-25 in. long, 

 on defiexed, coarsely but shortly pubescent peduncles 3 in. long ; 

 their branches short, spreading, bracteate at the divisions and coarsely 

 pubescent. Floivcrs condensed into globose capitulate cymes at the 

 apices of the branches, sessile. Calyx narrowly eampanulate, pubes- 

 cent, with 5 erect acute teeth. Corolla unknown. Fruit narrowly 

 elliptic, tapering to each end, the apex crowned by the short pubescent 

 lobes, with 12 deep ridges and grooves, glabrous, '4 in. long and -2 in. 

 in diam. Seed dorsally 5-ridged, ventrally 2-grooved. 



Peeak : Scortechini 538. 



This approaches P. fulva, but is a snialler plant, with crenulate leaves quite 

 glabrous on the upper surface and nearly so on the lower. 



23. PsYCHOTEiA STiPULACEA, Wall, in Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & 

 Wall. II. 164. A shrub, 1 to 2 feet high, aU parts except the inflores- 

 cence glabrous ; stems as thick as a goose-quill, brown when dry. 

 Leaves membranous, broadly oblanceolate to elliptic, or oblong, abruptly 

 and shortly acuminate, much narrowed to the base ; both sm'faces 

 glabrous, when dry brown with a reddish tinge ; midrib very stout, main- 

 nerves 11 to 13 pairs, spreading, slightly curved, distinct on both sur- 

 faces ; length 5 to 9 in. ; breadth 2 to 4 in. ; petioles "5 to 1*25 in. long, 

 winged near the apex. Stipules large, sub-persistent, ovate, sometimes 

 bifid, "75 to 1 in. long, and about "4 in. broad. Cyme usually solitary, 

 corymbose, trichotomous, terminal, on a short peduncle, bracteate at the 

 base, about 2 to 3 in. in diam. ; its branches puberulous, bracts and brac- 

 teoles triangular. Floivers -15 in. long, on short pedicels, clustered in 

 dense, cymose, capituHform cymes at the ends of the ultimate branches. 

 Calyx eampanulate, with 5 broad pubescent lobes, the tube glabrous. 

 Corolla longer than the calyx, widely eampanulate, 4- or 5-toothed. 

 Frtdt ellipsoid, sub-compressed, 10-ridged, crowned by the small calyx, 

 •3 in. long, and -15 in. in diam. Seed dorsally 5-ridged, ventrally con- 

 cave, with one central ridge. Wall. Cat. 8329 ; DC. Prod. IV. 519 ; 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 167. 



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