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19. PsYGHOTEiA viEiDiFLOEA, Reinw. ex Blume Bijdr. 965. A small 

 tree or a bush, all parts, except the inflorescence, glabrous ; young 

 branches thinner than a goose-quill, dark brown. Leaves membranous, 

 oblong-elliptic to oblanceolate-elliptic, shortly and stoutly acuminate, 

 the base much narrowed ; both surfaces brown when dry ; main-nerves 

 8 to 14 pairs, curved, spreading, rather faint on both surfaces ; length 

 3-5 to 8 in. ; breadth 1-25 to 2-5 in. ; petiole '4 to '75 in. occasionally as 

 much as 1*25 in. long. Stipules broadly oblong, narrowed to the apex, 

 but not acute, "3 to '5 in. long, deciduous. Cymes on naked peduncles 

 (■3 to 1'5 in. long) in broad panicles 1 to 2 in. long and as much wide 

 (more when in fruit) ; branches divaricating, puberulous, with small 

 broad bracteoles. Floioers in small cymes, on the ultimate branches, 

 *1 in. long, on short pedicels, glabrous outside. Calyx cupular with 

 irregular, short, sharp teeth. Corolla longer than the calyx, widely 

 tubular, with 5 broad sub-acute lobes ; the throat sericeous. Anthers 5, 

 oblong, blunt, attached by short filaments in the throat. Fruit elliptic, 

 with a wide shallow areola on the apex, the sides with 10 bold vertical 

 ridges (2 of them double), glabrous, about -25 in. long and -2 in. in 

 diam. Seeds plano-convex, the convexity deeply 5-grooved, the ventral 

 surface flat. P. sulcata, Wall. Cat. 8370 ; Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. III. 

 168. P. Jachii, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 167. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 3021; Goodenough 1878; Derry 457, 

 1224; Bidley 1600. Pangkore : Curtis 1369. Teang : Wray 2778. 

 Negri Sembilan : Bidley 1930. Selangor : Bidley 7434. Peeak : 

 Scortechini; Bidley ^^19, 3067; Wray 290, 2027, 2778, 2956; King's 

 Collector 2655, 4275, 4374, 5964, 6327, 7224. Penang : Wallich 8343, 

 8370.— DiSTEiB. Burma, Heifer & Griffith (K.D.) 3040; Sumatra, 

 Forbes ; Java, Blume ; Borneo, Beccari ; Motley ; Haviland. 



20. PsYCHOTRiA BiECHiANA, n. sp., King & Gamble. Herbaceous; 

 woody at the base ; all parts softly rusty-pubescent ; stems 6 to 18 in. 

 high, thinner than a goose-quill, their pubescence crisped, dense, coarse, 

 and entirely or partly deciduous. Leaves thickly membranous, elliptic 

 to elliptic-oblong, sometimes sub-obovate, acute, the base rounded or 

 minutely cordate or sometimes cuneate ; both surfaces brown when 

 dry, the lower sometimes paler and with fewer hairs ; the midrib 

 prominent and very hairy on both sides, the 10 to 12 pairs of rather 

 faint little-curved spreading main-nerves less hairy than the midrib ; 

 length 3-5 to 5 in. ; breadth 1-5 to 2-25 in. ; petiole -5 to 1 in., covered 

 with coarse tomentum mixed with ovate-acuminate scales. Stipules 

 oblong-ovate, acuminate, -5 to -75 in. long. Cymes pedunculate, 

 solitary, terminal, spreading, 1-5 to 2 in. across, and about as long, the 

 branches spreading, bracteate at the divisions, the bracts lanceolate, 



