162 pentanddia monogynia. Psychotriu* 



terminal, compact, sub-globular, peduncled, villous. — Flowers very 

 small, sessile, densely crowded, appearing almost capitate. Calyx 

 rather fleshy, with subulate teeth ; corolla densely bearded at the 

 throat; in other respects as in asiatica. Berry perfectly round 

 and smooth, as large as a marrowfat pea, of a bright, pale red colour, 

 •without ribs, but obscurely marked with two opposite lines, its 

 vertex not crowned, but only marked by a vestige of the calycine 

 Jaciniae. Dissepiment very thin, almost membranous, being at length 

 obliteiated. Seeds two, hemisphaeric, flat on one side, on the other 

 convex and gibbous, without ribs or furrows. 



Obs. The leaves and stipules are much like those of P. asiati- 

 ca ; the inflorescence is much more crowded than in that species, 

 as are also the berries, which differ remarkably iii their colour and 

 form, as is apparent from the description given abDve. The fissure 

 along the inner surface of the perisperm is deep and divides inter- 

 nally in two branches, resembling, after the fruit has been cut nans- 

 tersely, the letter T. in this respect both these species approach 

 very closely to C affect, 



4. P. truncata, Wall. 



Leaves elliptic, ovate, acute, tapering at the base. Stipules large, 

 ovate, entire. Corymb terminal, small, fleshy, with small bractes. 

 Calyx truncate. Corolla iufundibuliform, with a hairy throat. 



Specimens without any name are preserved in Dr. Heyne's hor* 

 tus siccus, dated 20th March, lb 17- 



Shrubby? All the parts smooth, except the axils of the petiols 

 which conceal a tuft of long white hair. — Branches round ; 

 the upper ends compressed. — Leaves coriaceous, broad, ovate, 

 elliptic, acute, entire, base tapering, from six to eight inches long 

 by four broad, becoming yellowish on being dried, pefectly smooth, 

 with parallel, approximate, numerous nerves, whose axillae are fo» 

 veoiate. — Peiiol about an inch long, sub-marginate. — Stipules large p 

 ovate, acute, entire, coriaceous, deciduous, often longer than (ho 

 petiolsj their back depressed, concave, sub-triangular. — Corymb ter- 

 minal, peduucled5 about two° thirds shorter than the uppermost pair 



