■Psyehotria.] lx-xv. etjbiacej:. (J. D. Hooker.) 165 



obtuse, cymes terminal, peduncle and subopposite corymbose branches stout, 

 ■flowers pedicelled, fruit large subglobose, calyx-limb very small. 



Andaman Islands, Kwz. 



A shrub. Leaves 6-7 by I5-2J in., thinly coriaceous, dull green when dry, nerves 

 slender ; petiole ^1 in. Cymes 1-2 in. ; braDches snbopposite, short, dichotomously 

 divided ; pedicels stout. Calyx-teeth 5, minute. CoroUa small. Fniiit ^ in. long, 

 slightly oboToid, base suddenly contracted. Seeds ^-terete,, ventral face flat ; albumen 

 ruminate, — The seeds are not very satisfactory. 



16. F. malayana, Jack in Mai. Misc. 1. 3 ; glabrous, branches robust, 

 leaves elliptic-lanceolate acute or acuminate, nerves 12-16 pair, axils imperfo- 

 rate, stipules large acute or upper apiculate, cymes terminal peduncled many- 

 flowered, branches stout lower or all whorled and with whorled branchlete, 

 flowers pediceUed and sessile in the forks, corolla-tube elongate. DC. Prodr. 

 iv. 520. P. aurantiaca, Wall, in JRoxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey ^ Wall. ii. 165 ; Cat. 

 8335 ; JDC. I 0. 619. P. expansa, Blvme Bijd. 963 ; BC. I. c. 521. Grumilea 

 ..aurantiaca (exol. descript. of fruit) and Ohasalia expansa, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 

 296 and 281. 



Penang, Ja/>k. — DisTRiB. Java. 



Branches Soft, smooth, upper compressed. Leaves 4-8 by 1^3 in., greenish when 

 -dry, nerves slender ; petiole j-J in. ; stipules coriaceous. Cymes stout, puberulous or 

 glabrous, very many-flowered ; peduncle 3 in. and less, and branches angled or com- 

 pressed ; bracteoles caducous. Calyx-limb truncate, obscurely 5-toothed. Corolla-tube 

 J in., lobes lanceolate, and' throat villous. Fruit " obovoid, as large as a cherrystone, 

 orange-coloured," Wallich. — Jack's description is too imperfect for identification, but 

 .as "Wallich has his aurantiaca from Jack, there is little room for doubt as to this being 

 his species. I have seen no fruit, but that of a very similar Bornean species differing 

 only in the opposite cyme branches is that of a Grumilea. Some of Miquel's synonyms 

 -are too unsatisfactory to be quoted : his G. awantiaca is described as having 10-ribbed 

 fruit ; of the loose fruits transmitted with his Chasalia expansa to Herb. Kew, one is 

 lO-ribbed, and does not, I suspect, belong to the plant. 



16. P. polycarpa, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 295 (Grrumilea) ; scandent, 

 glabrous, leaves obovate or elliptic-obovate acute or abruptly acuminate, nerves 

 6-7, axils imperforate, cymes terminal brachiate, branches elongate, branchlets 

 divaricate, flowers pedicelled, fiuit very small ellipsoid imibonate. P. obovata, 

 Wall. Cat. 8380 A. 



Malacca, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 3042), Maingay (924); Sinoapoee, Wallich. — 

 — DisTBiB. Sumatra. 



Branches soft, cylindric, smooth. Leaves 2^3 in., variable in width, dull greenish 

 when dry, coriaceous, nerves indistinct, veins ; petiole ^-^ in. ; stipules ovate, ob- 

 tuse, caducous. Cyme much corymbosely branched, sometimes 6 in. diam. ; peduncle 

 3 in. and less, and the branches angled ; flowers very small, on divaricating pedicels. 

 Valyx-limh tvoDcaXe. CoroZto A in., throat villous. Fruit ^ in. long ; calyx-limb de- 

 pressed, surrounding the prominent esserted obtuse stout disk, as in P. pendala. — This 

 species, notwithstanding its ruminated albumen and ^-terete seed, must stand next to 

 JP. sanmntosa. 



Sect. n. Seeds dorsaUy convex with 4 furrows, 



* Stem scandent. 



17. P. sarmentosa, Blume Bijd. 964 ; climbing, glabrous, leaves elliptic 

 ■or elliptic-obovate acute or acuminate, nerves 6-8 pair, petiole slender, cymes ter- 

 iminal subsessile compressed corymbiform or brachiate, branches opposite, flowers 

 ■pedicelled, fruit sm^ obovoid 8-grooved, calyx-limb very smalL DC. Prodr. 

 iv. 522 ; Wiyht Ic. t. 1038 ; Thw. Enum. 148 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 14. , P. scandens, 



