Psychotria.] RUBIACER. 9 
4, included or somewhat exserted, the filaments short. Ova ary 2- 
celled, with a solitary erect ovule in each cell ; style simple, with 
a 2- cleft stigma. Drupes crowned with the calyx-limb, contain- 
ing 2 plano-convex pyrenes, smooth or longitudinally furrowed or 
ribbed, spuriously ruminate or even. Embryo at the base of the 
homogeneous cartilaginous albumen; cotyledons leafy, lnncathati 
—Trees, shrubs, or rarely undershrubs, with interpetiolar, free, or 
often connate and often very deciduous stipules. Flowers small, 
white, in axillary or terminal cymes 
* meres epiene: -convex, abn te os or dorsal keel, enclosed 
white thin membra 
Small creeping aide — the ‘ech and often also the nerves 
beneath shortly tomentose . P. calocarpa. 
* : cede plano-convex, with an obsolete longitudinal 
sal rib. 
Glabrous ae it nals: raceme . P. connata. 
As former, leaves bei panicles aoe or corymbose . £. platyneura. 
enes fet sere the inner face flat, the 2 lateral 
less a Pe — a thick rib, 
x Quite at guabrovs, resenbin cng . 2. symplocifolia. 
5 de 9 eg wes geen sessile, clustered, 
Flower-heads vey state Kav dees above - P. polyneura. 
Flower-heads rather large, co 3 lea es hirsute o n both des . P. Helferiana. 
* ae Tenes ieapunainatie ribbed and p beter (ribs 
hd 
x Flowers assis or nearly so, clustered or in heads, form- 
ing scr ce icles 
Leaves opaque; ¢ act, somewhat tomentose ; bracts subulate P. monticola. 
Traces Peale paniols Meni ved a. smooth ; bracts broadly 
ov: - £. adenophylla. 
x P8 "Flowers pedicelled, in loose cymes or corymbs, 
O Small erect shrubs. 
+ Leaves thick, membranous or rather r pergama- 
ceous, ere ra} more or less brownish in drying. 
A Drupe 4 ot six bee glabrous ; cymes es 
puberul ; . P. viridiflora. 
4 Drupe oly 2-3 lin. tong. 
Cymes rusty- puberulos . aig « «+ P. Andamanizca. 
Cymes glabrou: . P. divergens, 
+ t Leaves thin membranous and 1 fined, remain- 
ing green ; all ag glabro . BP. viridissima. 
O O Large scandent shru 
Corymbs at the lower branchin _— fornished with 2 —— 
narrow floral leaflets - P. sarmentosa, 
P. calocarpa, Kz.—A_ low, almost herbaceous eam epi 
1- 7 ‘ft. ‘high, with a creeping rhizome, the younger stems 
less puberulous from short debile crispate hairs; stipules 2-cleft, 
from a broader base subulate-acuminate and often brownish-pubes- 
cent at the apex ; leaves from oblong to ovate-oblong, acute at 
the base, on a thick petiole often Seayrdd crispate- tomentose se 
the back, acute to acuminate, 3-7 in. long, enti aceo 
glabrous, or more usually shortly sek often indistinetly uberis 
