Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 623 



Leaves glabrous : — 

 Leaves narrowly elliptic-oblong, usually under 4 in. in 

 length : — • 

 Flowers 4-merous .. .. .. ..1. G.viminea. 



, Flowers o-merous . . . . . . . . 2. G. Koenigii var. 



Leaves oblong-oblanceolate, much tapered to the long petiole, [oxyphylla. 



7 to 12 in. in length: — 



Cymes densely umbellate, crowded. . .. ..3. G. ohesa. 



Cymes laxly paniculate. . .. .. ..4. G. ohlancp.olatn. 



Leaves hairy beneath, elliptic-oblong, slightly narrowed at the 



base ; petiole not very long . . . . . . . . 5. G. grisea. 



1. Gaeetneea viminea, Hook. f. ex Clarke in Fl. Br. Incl. IV. 91 

 (1883). A shrub; young shoots as thick as a crow-quill, glabrous. Leaves 

 membranous ; narrowly lanceolate, apex caudate-acuminate, the base 

 much narrowed ; both surfaces brown when dry, the upper glabrous, the 

 lower minutely scaly; length 2-5 to 3'5 in., breadth -6 to '8 in. ; petiole 

 about •! in. long. Floivers only about "25 in. long, in small terminal 

 trichotomous nearly glabrous cymes ; lowest bracts linear, sometimes 

 •4 in. long ; pedicels very short. Calyx cupular, with 4 spreading 

 teeth. Corolla villous at the throat, 4-lobed. Fruit obovoid-globose, 

 •2 in. long. Psychotria viminea, Wall. Cat. 8354. 



Singapore : WalUch 8354 ; Bidley 4828, 9500. 



2. Gaektneea Koenigii, Wight Ic. 1318 (1850) ; var. oxyphylla, 

 Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 91 (1883). A small tree ; all parts except 

 the inflorescence glabrous ; young branches thicker than a crow-quill, 

 pale brown, terete. Leaves thinly coriaceous ; narrowly elliptic-oblong, 

 sometimes somewhat oblanceolate, apex shortly caudate-acuminate, base 

 much narrowed ; both sm'faces pale olivaceous-brown when dry, the lower 

 minutely scaly; midrib distinct; main nerves 6 to 8 pairs, curving up- 

 wards, thin but distinct on the lower surface ; length 2-5 to 4 in., 

 l)readth -8 to 1-35 in. ; petiole -2 to -4 in. long. Stipules forming an 

 oblong sheath, 5-toothed or bifid, -25 in. long ; the apex and ultimately 

 the whole deciduous. Panicles terminal, cymose, lax, less than half as 

 long as the leaves when in flower, elongating in fruit ; branches divari- 

 cate, opposite, the ultimate branches 3-flowered. F'lowers -25 in. 

 long, on puberulous pedicels longer or shorter than themselves, bracteo- 

 late near the apex. Calyx short, tubular, irregularly 5-toothed. Corolla 

 tubular, glabrous outside, slightly curved ; the mouth with 5 (sometimes 

 4) thick spreading subacute lobes. Stamens included ; anthers linear, 

 slightly bifid at the base, on short filaments. Ovary 2-celled, each cell 

 1-ovuled. Fruit globular, -3 in. in diam., slightly compressed, with a 

 deep vertical groove on each side (subdidymous), glabrous, smooth; the 

 apex areolate, but without remains of the calj^. G. thyrsiflora, Blume 



