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very prominent, and the 8 to 10 pairs of spreading nerves thin but 

 distinct; length 4 to 6 in. ; breadth 1 to 1'75 in. ; petiole "2 to -5 in., 

 slightly winged near the apex. Stipules broadly triangular, acute, sub- 

 acute or bifid, -25 in. long. Cyme solitary, terminal, pyramidal, about 

 1'5 in. long, on a naked peduncle 1"25 to 3 in. long; branches whorled, 

 shortly bracteolate at their bases, spreading ; the ultimate branchlets 

 crowded at their ends with numerous sessile flowers '25 in. long. 

 Calyx pale, widely cupular, -05 in. long, with irregular small teeth. 

 Corolla thick, tubular, its 5 broad lobes with acute inflexed apices ; the 

 throat densely sericeous. Anthers elliptic, blunt, on short filaments. 

 Fruit ovoid or narrowly obovoid, pulpy, obscurely ridged, glabrous, 

 crowned by the small calyx, -5 in. long and half as much broad (unripe), 

 2-celled. Seeds 2, plano-convex. Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. IV. 

 210; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 172. Psychotria, Wall. Cat. 8348. 

 Ghasalia perforata, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 546. 



Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 3037. Province Wellesley : Pdclley 7026. 

 JoHOEE : Biclley 11161. Singapore : Bidley 2867. Pahang : Ridley 

 1353. Penang : Curtis 14, 726 ; King's Collector 1683. Perak : 

 King's Collector 4170. — Disteib. Burma. 



17. Psychotria Helfeeiana, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., 1872, 

 II. 314. A shrub ; the whole plant more or less rusty-pubescent ; 

 young branches as thick as a goose-quill or thicker, the pubescence 

 dense and deciduous. Leaves thickly membranous, elliptic or oblong- 

 elliptic, rarely obovate-elliptic, the apex acuminate, the base usually 

 cuneate but sometimes rounded ; both surfaces dark brown when dry, 

 the lower somewhat tinged with red and less hairy than the upper ; 

 the hairs on both adpressed and very numerous on the stout midrib, 

 less so on the 9 to 16 pairs of spreading curved main-nerves ; length 

 6 to 12 in. ; breadth 2*5 to 4'5 in. ; petioles 1 to 1'75 in. Stipules 

 broadly ovate to oblong-lanceolate, often as much as 1 in. long, the 

 apex acuminately bifid. Floioers -2 in. long, numerous, mixed with many 

 unequal bracteoles mostly longer than themselves, all acuminate and 

 some of them bifid and crowded in dense pedunculate capitula in a 

 few-branched axillary cyme usually shorter than the leaf -petioles. 

 Calyx-tVihe narrowly campanulate, with 5 lanceolate erect lobes nearly 

 as long as itself, everywhere pilose. Corolla similar to the calyx, but 

 smaller and less hairy. Stamens almost sessile ; anthers broad, blunt. 

 Fruit ovoid or ellipsoid, somewhat compressed and boldly 8-ridged, 

 crowned by the lobes of the calyx, -3 in. long and -2 in. in diam. Kurz 

 For, Fl. Burm. II. 11 : Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 172. 



Singapore : Wallich 8368 ; Goodenough 184 ; Maingay (K.D.) 921. 

 Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 921 ; Bidley 184 ; Lohh. Johore : Bidley 



