164 LXXT. KUBiACEiB. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Psychotria. 



petiole very short ; stipules forming a sheathing 2-fid tube to the peduncle, obtuse or 

 subacute, axils glabrous. Cymes 2-3 in. long in fruit ; peduncle 2 in. and under, 

 stout ; branches not ^ in., bracts caducous ; flowers sessile or very shortly pedicelled. 

 Calyx minutely 5-toothed. Corolla-tube very short, throat villous. Fruit size of a 

 small pea; calyx-limb obsolete. Seeds ^-terete, ventral face flat; albumen rumi- 

 nated. — Leaves of the Ceylon specimen broader and with more nerves than the 

 peninsular. Beddome's flgure of P. elongata (Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. xvii. f. 6) has 

 glabrous throat to the corolla, and is a different plant. From the appearance of the 

 inflorescence and persistent large calyx-limb it is probably P. congesta. 



11. P. adenopbylla, Wall, in jRoxh. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey Sr Wall. ii. 

 166 ; Cat. 8349 ; glabrous, leaves elliptic-lanceolate or oblong acute acuminate 

 or cuspidate, nerves 14-20 pair, axUs minutely perforated, upper stipules 

 connate sheathing truncate, axils hairy, cymes terminal rarely axillary fruiting 

 elongate racemiform, branches short opposite and slender, flowers pedicelled, 

 fruit pyriform, calyx-limb minute. DC. Prodr. iv. 520. P. connata, Kurz 

 For. Fl. ii. 10, not of Wcdlich. 



Keasia Mts. and Cachak, alt. 0-4000 ft. Pegu, MClelland; Chittagong,. 

 J. D. H. ^ T. T.; Tenasseeim and Andaman Islands, Heifer, Kurg, &e. 



A shrub. Leaves very variable, 4-7 by 1-2J in., tip rounded and cuspidate or 

 more or less gradually acuminate, base the same ; nerves variable in number ; petiole 

 J-^ in. ; stipules ^-\ in., truncate, obtuse or subacute. CyTnes with the peduncle 

 3-5 in., or 7 when fruiting; branches opposite and subopposite; bracts caducous; 

 flowers very small. Calyx-limb truncate, quite entire. Corolla-tube ^ in., throat 

 villous. Fruit J in. long. Seeds ^terete, ventral face flat ; albumen ruminate. — 

 Very diflerent from P. congesta in the shape of the leaves, slender cymes, flowers, 

 calyx-limb, and fruit. The hoUow glands at the nerve-axils from which Wallich 

 derived the specific name are minute and not always visible. 



12. P. tylophora, Kurz in Lond. Joum. Sot. 1876, 328; glabrous, 

 leaves elliptic-obovate or -lanceolate abruptly acuminate narrowed into the- 

 petiole, nerves 12-16 pair axils perforate, stipules ovate-oblong acute, cymes 

 peduncled terminal erect, rachis slender elongate, opposite and alternate short 

 branches slender, fruit ellipsoid pedicelled, calyx-limb minute. 



Nicobar Islands ; woods of Katchall, Kurs. 



A shrub. Leaves 4-7 by 1^-2 J in., rather membranous, pale when dry; nerves 

 slender, arched ; petiole J-| in. ; stipules glabrous, axils hairy. Cymes racemose in 



fruit, 3-4 in. long, short, branches dichotomously divided. Fruit nearly ^ in. long. 



I have seen but one imperfect specimen. 



13. P. pendula, Hook.f. ; glabrous, leaves elliptic-obovate or -lanceolate 

 abruptly obtusely acuminate, narrowed into the petiole, nerves 12-16 pair, axils 

 imperforate, cymes peduncled terminal, fruiting pendulous very long, rachis and 

 very short distant opposite branches stout, fruit depressed-globose sessile- 

 crowned with the enlarged calyx-limb. 



Andaman Islands ; Passage Bay, Heifer. 



Branches smooth, stout, pale green. Leaves 4-6 by l|-2^ in., pale green when 

 dry, nerves slender ; petiole ^-J,in. ; stipules not seen. Fruiting cymes racemose, 5- 7 

 in. long. FVuit J in. broad, somewhat contracted at the base, obscurely didymous ; 

 calyx-limb cupular, 5-toothed, with a central obtuse projecting enlarged disk. Seeds 

 hemispheric, ventral face flat ; albumen not deeply ruminate. — This differs from P; 

 tylophora in the imperforate nerve-axils and long pendulous fruiting cymes with very 

 stout branches, and sessile fruit of a totally different shape, and large calyx-limb. 



14. P. platjmeura, Kurz in Trimen Jmrn. Bot. 1875, 327 ; Fm: Fl. 

 ii. 10 ; glabrous, leaves elliptic-obovate or -lanceolate abruptly acuminate nar- 

 rowed into the stout petiole, nerves about 20 pair, stipules broad ovate upper 



