Psychotrla, pentandria monooynia. 167 



Native of Sillier, blossoming in the hot season. Specimens as 

 well as growing plants were from thence sent to this garden in 1815, 

 by the late Mr. Smith. 



Beng. Alada Choonau. 



A small ramous shrub with opposite, round, ash-grey branches; 

 the uppermost dichotomous, somewhat compressed- Leaves op- 

 posite, coriaceous, lanceolate, acuminate, acute at the base, trans- 

 versely rugose, shining above, pallid, with parallel nerves underntath, 

 the axils of the latter with a deep glandular fovea which is contracted 

 at the mouth, and appears elevated en the upper surface; from three 

 to four inches long. Petiols scarcely half an inch long, rounded, 

 with a number of jointed hairs within their base. Stipules adpressed, 

 broad-ovate, equalling, and sometimes slightly exceeding the petiols, 

 their base connected into a tube which is villous within; deckhwus^ 

 keeled on the back. — Raceme terminal, erect, about the thickness 

 of a small finger, scarcely equalling the uppermost pair of leaves in 

 length ; mostly with a few small branches at the base. — VeduncLs 

 flattened, from one to three inches long, surrounded at the base with 

 two opposite, sheathing, aristate-acuminate bractes ; partial, very 

 short, approximate, opposite, twicevor thrice trichotomous, with very 

 small brad lets.— Flowers small, greenish, fascicled, sub-sessile.—- 

 Calyx truncate, obscurely five-toothed. — Corolla with a short in fun- 

 dibuliform tube; lacinia lanceolate, acute ; faux villous.— Stamina 

 recondite among the villi of the throat.— Stigma in the mouth of the 

 corolla divided into two oval, fleshy, scabrous lobes. 



06s. The inflorescence of this species renders it \ery distinct 

 from all those of the East Indies. The leaves are remarkably 

 glandular in the axils of the nerves ; a circumstance which is more 

 or less the case with all genuine Psychotria. The leaves of the 

 young shoots are generally twice as large as the rest, of an oblong, 

 bub- ovate form. 



11. P. curviflora, Wall. 



Leaves lanceolate-oblong, long, acuminate, tapering much down- 





