Psychotria, pentandria monocynia. 16X 



cription and figure of this species (Carp. i. 120. tab. 125) agees 

 perfectly. 



Obs. There can hardly be any doubt of this being Linn em's 

 plant. It agrees peifectly in regard to its fruit with Gartner's; 

 also with Browne's Psychotrophum c i, Hist, of Jamaica 160, t. 17, 

 f. 2. (marked Psychotria asiatica i on the plate.) 



2. P. herbacea, Willd. Spec. i. 967. Jacq. Amer. 66. t. 46. 

 Heibaceous, creeping. Leaves round-cordate. Stipules semi- 

 lunar. Flowers few, terminal on (he little erect branchtets. 



Karirita kali, Rheed. mal. x. 41. t 21. 



K.oodi inwnkoon?, the vernacular name in Sillier, where it grows 

 in moist places under the shade of trees, &c. Flowering time the 

 months of May and June. 



Addition by N. W. 

 Berry almost round, smooth, even, crowned with the persistent 

 calyx, of the size of a large currant. Pulp thick and fleshy. Seeds 

 two, plano-convex, a little rugose, with a dorsal elevated line. — The 

 rest as in P. asiatica. 



3. P. spkarocarpa, Wall. 



Leaves ovate, elliptic, coriaceous, smooth. Stipules large, ovate, 

 two-lobed, lobes acuminate. Corymb terminal, rounded, with crowd- 

 ed small flowers. — Berries sphaerical, smooth, even. 



Native of the hills near Silhet, from whence I received the fruit in 

 1815, and flowering specimens in 1821. 



Native name the same as that of Psych, asiatica. 



Shrubby. Branches round, thick, smooth, their upper extremi- 

 ties compressed — Leaves broad-elliptic, acuminate, entire, acute, 

 sometimes rounded at the base, from eight to twelve inches Ion?-, 

 coriaceous, smooth, shining above, strongly marked underneath with 

 approximate parallel nerves, which unite by sub-marginal veins. — 

 Fetiolswx inch long, rouuded.— Stipules as in P. asiatica.— Corymb 



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