Psyehotria.] lxxv. RUBUCEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 16S 



lower pair of branches long spreading racMs above them arrested, flowers in 

 many small beads terminating tbe branoblets, fruit globose areole small. Psy- 

 d^tna. ? Wall Cat. 8345. ' • 



Westbbn Peninsula ; Sheyagheiry and Dindygul hills, Wiffht. 



Branches stout, smootlii Leaves 6-8 by 2-3 in., groen and rathor flaccid when 

 dry, base narrowed inibo a patiala ^1^ in. ; nerves distant, about 10 pair; stipules 

 ■caducous-, viariable, sometimes tpothed. Cymes large, 3-4 in. diam. ; peduncles stout, 

 3 in. and less, lower pair of branches aseei>ding or recurved branched at the end, and 

 bearing small heads |--J in. diam. of glabrous flowers ; bracts caducous. Calyx-Umb 

 membranous, teeth very short, obtuse or acute. Corolla-tube broadly shortly funnel- 

 shaped, mouth villous. Fruit i in. diam., smooth. Beed J-terete, ventral face flat, 

 albumen ruminated. — ^Wight's originally distributed specimens hav& a terminal cyme, 

 with an elongated raehis ; all the numerous others have the rachis exceeded in height 

 by the ends of the lower branches of the cyme. 



8. P. truncata, Wall, in Roxh. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey ^ Wall. ii. 162 ; 

 glabrous, leaves large cuneate-obovate or orbicular rarely elliptic-obovate 

 abruptly apiculate coriaceous base cuneate, nerves 14-16 pair close and strong, 

 stipules very large, cymes peduncled or sessile bracbiate, lower branches 

 whorled, berry elKpsoid. P. Heyneana, Wall. Cat. 8327, in part. 



Western Peninsula ; on tbe Ghats from Conoan southwards, Seyne, &e. 



Branches stout, smooth. Leaves 6-8 by 3-4 in., pale green when dry, narrowed 

 into a stout petiole ^Ij in., upper surface usually raised between the spreading 

 nerves ; stipules sometimes 1 J in., broadly ovate or oblong, free or connate below, 

 coriaceous. C^mee terminal, often short and dense in flower, in fruit 5-6 in. diam., 

 ■stout, 3 in. and under ; branches long or short ; bracts deciduous ; flowers small, sub- 

 Bessile. Calyx-limb truncate. Corolla-rtiike very short, glabrous, mouth with a fringe 

 of hairs. Berry ^ in., sniooth. Seed J-terete, ventral face flat ; albumen ruminate. 

 — The ticket of Heyne marked March 2Q, 1837, identifies the H. Heyneana of Wallich's 

 ■catalogue with the H. truncata of his and Carey's edition of the " Flora Indica." 



9. p. Dalzellli, Hook. f. ; glabrous, very robust, leaves obovate or 

 oblong- or obcuneate-obovate coriaceous tip obtuse or rounded, base cuneate, 

 nerves 12-20 pair strong, stipules very large, cymes terminal peduncled 

 brachiate, branches whorled very stout with terminal capitate flowers, and 

 large persistent bracts. P. bracteata, W. ^ A. Prodr. 434, not of DC. 



Western Peninsula ; from Canara southwards. 



Branches sometimes as thick as the little finger, smooth, cylindric. Leaves 5-10 

 by 2—4 in., pale or black when dry, nerves strong on both surfaces ; petiole very 

 short, stout; stipules broadly oblong or orbicular, coriaceous, sometimes f in. diam., 

 axils glabrous. Cyme-pedunole 3 in. or less, lower branches 4-5 in a whorl, 1-2 in. ; 

 bracts-^- J in., broadly ovate or orbicular, very coriaceous ; bracteoles concave as long 

 as and forming an involucre round the heads of flowers. Calyx-teeth 6, short, rounded, 

 ciliate. Corolla-tube ^ in., glabrous, throat villous. Fruit young, glabrous, crowned 

 with tbe enlarged calyx-limb. — Dalzell has called this a Qrumiiea. I have seen no 

 ripe fruit. 



** Cyme-hranoheg opposite, whorled in 15. P. malayana, 



10. P. elong^ata, Wight Ic. t. 1036 (Grumilea) ; glabrous, leaves elliptic 

 or obovate obtuse subacute or cuspidate, base cuneate, nerves ] 0-14 pair, axUs 

 somcitimes perforated, uppermost stipules connate obtuse, cymes terminal, fruit- 

 ing elongate racemiform, branches veiy short opposite and peduncles very stout, 

 flowers crowded, fruit globose, calyx-limb minute. Psyehotria, Wall. Cat. 8350. 



NiLGHERET and'SHEVAQHEEET HiLLS, Noton, &c. Ceylon ; Central Province, alt. 

 7000 ft., Thwaites. 



Shrubby. Leaves 3-5 by 1^2J in., pale when dry ; nerves sl«nder, spreading ; 



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