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cartilaginous cocci with 3 bold ridges. Seeds bluntly 5-ridged on the 

 dorsal, broadly grooved on the ventral surface. DC. Prod. IV. 520 ; 

 Hook. m. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 169. P. microcarpa, Wall. Cat. 8344. 

 Streblosa tortilis, Korth. Kruidk. Arch. II. 246. 



Penang : Wallich 8344 ; Curtis 405, 1269. Singapokb : Lobb. 

 Peeak : King's Collector 710, 2627 ; Scortechini. — Disteib. Sumatra, 

 Forbes 1495. 



15. PsYCHOTEiA Geiffithii, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 171. A 

 shrub ; glabrous except the puberulous inflorescence ; young branches 

 thinner than a goose-quill, terete, of a dark colour when dry. Leaves 

 coriaceous, oblong or elliptic, shortly and somewhat abruptly acumi- 

 nate, the base cuneate, the edges slightly recurved and pale, both 

 surfaces drying olivaceous-green, shining, the midrib and the 12 to 

 15 pairs of curved spreading main-nerves distinct ; length 6 to 10 in. ; 

 breadth 1-75 to 3-5 in. ; petiole -4 to -8 in., slightly winged above, 

 stout. Stipules broadly triangular, sub-acute, '2 to '3 in. long. Cymes 

 terminal, solitary, pyramidal, about 1*5 in. long and the same in 

 breadth, on naked compressed peduncles 1'5 in. or more long (lengthen- 

 ing to 2 in. or more in fruit) ; branches short, stout, puberulous, 

 ebracteolate ; the ultimate ones bearing the shortly pedicelled flowers 

 in cymules of three. Floioers -2 in. long. Calyx campanulate, with 

 5 broadly triangular acute sub-erect teeth. Corolla as long as the 

 calyx, fleshy, tubular, with 5 broad oblong hooded lobes ; the tube 

 finely sericeous inside, otherwise glabrous. Anthers 5, broadly oblong, 

 entire, dorsifixed ; the filaments thin, compressed, broad. Style short, 

 with 2 broad flat lobes. Fruit elliptic, slightly obovoid, the apex sub- 

 truncate, crowned by the remains of the disk and calyx, glabrous, black 

 when dry, -4 in. long and '35 in. broad ; with 4 broad vertical ridges, two 

 of them grooved externally and consisting of two ridges united, the 

 other two single ; 2-celled, and 2-seeded. Seeds large, the dorsal 

 surface with a single ridge, the ventral flat, not grooved, everywhere 

 smooth. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 3044; Maingay (K.D.) 918; Hervey ; 

 Derry 367. Perak : Bidley 2873. Singapore : Bidley 2872, 2873, 

 6314, 6468, 6556; Htillett 848. 



16. PsYCHOTRiA ANGULATA, Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. II. 243. 

 A shrub 4 to 6 ft. high, glabrous except the inflorescence ; young 

 branches pale brown when dry, thinner than a goose-quill, terete. 

 Leaves coriaceous, oblanceolate to oblanceolate-elliptic, the apex shortly 

 and rather abruptly acuminate, the base much narrowed ; both surfaces 

 brown when dry, tinged with olivaceous ; the upper very shining, the 

 broad midrib and nerves depressed ; the lower less shining, the midrib 



