Psychotria] LXI. KUBIACE.E 395 



octosulcata, Talbot, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. xi.'237. Falls of Gairsoppa, North 

 Kanara. An erect shrub with green branches, cymes short sessile, trichotomous, 

 branches slender. Fr. black and succulent when ripe, pyrenes i in. long, 4-ridged on 

 back. 20. P. canadensis, Talbot Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xi. 691 t. xii. Falls of 

 Gairsoppa, North Kanara. A small erect shrub, fr. ovoid, curved, A in. long, pyrenes 

 with 2 furrows down the back. 21. P. bisulcata, W. et A. Nilgiris, fr. J in. ovoid, 

 pyrenes with 2 shallow furrows on the back. 22. P. connata, Wall. (P. laevigata, W. et 

 A. ; Wight Ic. t. 828). Courtallum. L. coriaceous, shining above, nearly sessile, 4-7 in. 

 long, stipules ovate or lanceolate, simple or bifid. Cymes pedunculate, lower branches 

 whorled, bracts coriaceous, connate, persistent, p3 _ renes with 2 broad shallow furrows. 

 23. P. anamallayana, Bedd. Ic. PI. Or. t. 236. Anamalais, 3-4,500 ft. on banks of rivers. 

 A large shrub or small tree, 1. chartaceous, oblanceolate, blade 8-10, narrowed into 

 petiole 1^—3 in. long. Cyme short, on a stout peduncle, lower branches whorled, bracts 

 deciduous. 



b. Eastern species, pyrenes with 4 dorsal ridges. 



24. P. erratica, Honk. f. Nepal. Sikkini, ascending to 6,000 ft. Khasi and Naga 

 hills. Siam. Au evergreen shrub, 1. thinly membranous, lanceolate, blade 5-7, pet. 

 slender J-f in. long, stipules often with 2 recurved lobes. Cymes trichotomous, 1 in. 

 diam., bracts lanceolate. Cal3"x-teeth longer than tube. Fr. succulent, red and yellow. 

 25. P. sulcata, Wall. Pegu and Tenasserim. 1. lanceolate, blade 3-9, narrowed into pet. 

 i-li in. long, stipules large, almost persistent. 26. P. andamanica, Kurz. Andamans 

 and Xicobars, possibly only a form of 25 with broader 1. 27. P. fulva. Ham. (including 

 /'. monlicola, Kurz). Assam. Khasi hills. Cachar. Pegu. L. elliptic-lanceolate, 

 blade 5-12, pet. A-l in. long, sec. n. 15-18 pair, stipules i-1 in., bifid. Cymes axillary or 

 terminal, compact, usually pedunculate, fr. |-i in. long. 



C. Eastern species, pyrenes with 1, rarely 3 dorsal ridges. 



28. P. angTilata, Korth. Tenasserim. Malay Peuius. and Archip., 1. coriaceous, 

 shining, oblanceolate, blade 4-8, pet. A in. long. Cymes pedunculate, branches stout, 

 whorled. 29. p. symplocifolia, Kurz. Khasi and Naga hills. Hills east of Toungoo. 



1.. oblan date, caudate-acuminate, blade 3-5, pet. J in. long. Cymes pedunculate 



trichotomous, branches slender. 80. P. Helferiana, Kmv. Pegu. Tenasserim. Malay 

 Pen ins. Yunnan. Branchlets, underside of 1. hirsute, I. elliptic, blade 5-10, pet. J— 2 

 in. long. Cymes pubescent axillary or terminal, peduncled, il. minute, greenish-white 

 in dense heads, mixed with hirsute persistent bracteoles, fr. often hirsute ovoid, crowned 

 by the pi linent calyx-segue nt,-.. 



Chasalia curviflora, Thw. — Syn. Psychotria ambigua, W. et A.; Wight 111. t. 127. 

 Si kk i in 2-6,0011 ft. Assam, Khasi bills. Tenasserim. Western Peninsula on the 

 west side, from the Konkan southwards, mostly in evergreen forests. Malay Penins. 

 Ceylon, moist region to 6,000 ft. A slender shrub. 1. membranous, ell ipt ic-laneeolate or 

 oblanceolate, blade 1-s. |».t. .i,_:; iii. lone;, ('vines terminal trichotomous, peduncles 1-2 

 in. long. PI. 1-o-ineioiis, dimorphic, anthers exserted, stigmas included or the reverse, 

 calyx-teeth triangular. ( lorolla J \-K iii. long, waxy white, t hroat yellow, disk prominent, 

 < ical. Fr. A in. diam., inky purple, pyrenes cup-shaped. \vr\ cmeave ventrally. 



Hydnophytum formicarium, .lack; Kurz P. FI. ii. 8. Mangrove swamps of South 

 Andamans. Malay Penins. and Archip. A small evergreen epiphytic perfectly 

 glabrous shrub, with a thick tuber-like trunk, often hollow, in which ants make their 

 iie-is, branches few, stout. I., coriaceous, elliptic or obovate, obtuse, - 1 in. long, 

 sessile or narrowed into a short stoul petiole. I'l. white, sessile, solitary or in few-fld. 



fascicles rolla-1 ube ,'_. in. long, glabrous without, hirsute within, lobes I. valvate in 



bud, Ovary --celled, stigma 2-lobed. Drupe oblong 2 :i in. long (Kurz), orange- 

 crimson. 



28. SAPROSMA, Blume ; FI. Brit. fad. iii. 192, 



Shrubs, fetid when braised, 1. opposite or whorled, ineinluiiiioiis, stipules 

 deciduous. FI. usually while, i 5-inerous, axillary or terminal, solitary or 

 cviiio.se, bracts and bracteoles miDute. Calyx-tube obconic, limb dilated, 

 persistent. Corolla bell- or funnel-shaped, throat villous, lobes broad, obtuse, 

 valvate with indexed edges, Ovary "-'-celled, stigmas '-'.ovules ha sal, erect. 



Drupe small with I or "_' pyrenes, endocarp orustac is, embryo nearly as long 



as seed. Species 8 or P. India. Tonkin and South China, Malay Archip. 



