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Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 174; Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. I. 112. G 

 acuminata, Benth. I. c. G. Junghuhnii, Miq. El. Ind. Bat. II. 383. 

 Sykesia Koenigii and S. thyrsiflora, Arn. Pug. PL Ind. Or. 35 ; DC. 

 Prodr. IX. 35. Psychotria vaginans, DC. Prodr. IV. 520 ; W. & A. 

 Prodr. 434. Psychotria sp., Wall. Cat. 8342, 8388. P. oxyphylla 

 Wall. Cat. 8374 ; Benth. I. c. 



Perak : at elevations over 3000 ft., Scortechini 305 ; King's Collector 

 8063 ; Wray 214, 279, 4113, 4122. 



3. Gaertnera obesa. Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. IV. 92 (1883). A small 

 shrub ; young branches compressed, as thick as a swan's quill or thicker, 

 almost glabrous, pale brown, their apices often quite enveloped in the 

 large stipules. Leaves subcoriaceous, large; oblong-lanceolate or oblong- 

 elliptic, shortly acuminate at apex, narrowed at the base into the 

 stout winged petiole ; both surfaces drying brown, glabrous, the lower 

 minutely lepidote when young ; midrib broad ; main nerves 9 to 12 pairs, 

 slightly curved, ascending, conspicuous on the lower surface, the inter- 

 mediate nerves also distinct although thin ; length 9 to 12 in., breadth 

 3 to 3-5 in. ; petiole 1 to 1*5 in. long, broadly channelled ; its upper part 

 winged. Stipules 1-25 to 1-5 in. long, coriaceous, broadly oblong, 

 acuminate when young, but afterwards, from the breaking off of the 

 upper part, blunt or obscurely bifid; the base auricled. Cymes (including 

 their peduncles) not much exceeding the leaf-petioles in length, usually 

 terminal, densely umbellate, about 1*25 in. across, bearing about 3 um- 

 bellate main branches compressed and puberulous like the peduncle 

 but much shorter, and at the base several linear bracts about -5 in. long. 

 Flowers -3 in. long, sessile or shortly pedicelled in short, few-flowered, 

 broadly bracteolate cymelets on the ultimate branchlets. Calyx cam- 

 panulate, puberulous outside; the limb obscurely toothed, entire and 

 truncate, enlarging with age. Corolla twice as long as the calyx, fleshy, 

 tubular ; the limb with 5 short acute inflexed lobes, glabrous outside, 

 densely hairy in the upper half inside. Anthers 5, oblong, blunt, 

 cordate at the base, inserted by short filaments near the base of the 

 tube. Fruit unknown. Psychotria obesa, Wall. Cat. 8328. 



Perak : Scortechini. Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 925. Singapore : 

 on Bukit Timah, Bidley 2680 ; Htdlett 118, 137 ; Walker 212. 



Var. angustifolia. King & Gamble. Leaves not exceeding 2-75 in. 

 in breadth. Cymes axillary, 1-5 in. long. 



Perak : Scortechini. Only a single specimen collected. 



4. Gaertnera oblanceolata. King & Gamble, n. sp. A glabrous 

 shrub, 4 to 8 ft. high ; branches about as thick as a goose-quill, sub- 

 quadrangular, dark-coloured. Leaves subcoriaceous ; oblong-oblanceo- 

 late, shortly and somewhat abruptly acuminate, gradually narrowed 



