12 RUBIACER. [ Psychotria. 
deciduous ; leaves lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate at 
both ends, on a }-1 in. long petiole, 4-6 in, long, entire, thick 
membranous, glabrous, somewhat glaucescent ; flowers small, white, 
sessile, densely crowded into 3 short-peduncled or almost sessile 
racted heads on a 4 to 1} in. long strong peduncle, arising soli- 
of a pea, red and lucid, crowned by the calyx-limb ; yrenes longi- 
ious] 
Has.—Frequent in the damper hill forests of the Martaban hills down to 
oper Tenasserim, at 3,500 to 6,000 ft. elevation.—-F], Fr. March-Apr.— s,— 
=Metam. . 
lowly cup-shaped, with 5 very short and rather obsolete teeth ; 
corolla about a line long, glabrous, villous at the throat. 
parts quite glabrous ; stipules ovate, acuminate, deciduous ; leaves 
drying usually turning brown ; flowers small, greenish white. on 
; berries ellip- 
tical or oblong, 4-5 lin. long, crowned by the short calyx-limb, oa 
and glossy, smooth; pyrenes 5-ribbed and -furrowed ; albumen 
slightly and spuriously ruminate on the surface. 
Var. 1: stipules broad and rather large; leaves i m 
entire ; 
puberulous ; calyx-teeth inconspicuous, as it feces 
