Psychotria.] lxxv. eubiacbj). (J. D. Hooker.) 167 



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Erect shrubs. 



21. P. 'Wig'Iitiaiia, Thiv. Enum. 148 (Gmmilea) ; branches leaves be- 

 neatli and cymes villous with rufous hairs, leaves elliptic-lanceolate finely 

 acuminate, nerves 8-10 pair, cymes terminal cruciately hrachiate, tranches few 

 naked with terminal globose heads of sessile flowers or cymes reduced to a soli- 

 tary long peduncled or sessile globose head. Lasianthus ? dubius, Wight in 

 Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 516. 



Ceylon ; Ambagamowa and Saflragan districts, on banks of streams, Walker, &o. 



A small shrub, branches stout. Leaves 5-7 by 2-S\ in., rather eoriaeeous, brownish 

 green when dry, smooth and opaque above, nerves strong beneath ; petiole i-f in. ; 

 stipules oblong, connate, villous. Cymes densely villous, sessile or peduncled ; branches 

 and peduncle stout, the latter sometimes deflexed; bracteoles miinnte, obtuse ; heads 

 of sessile flowers dense, villous, ^-^ in. diam. Calyx veiy short, cupular, limb trun- 

 cate, teeth triangular. Corollor-tube very short, pubescent; throat hairy. Fruit 

 " subspherical, hairy, J-^ in. diam., subcarinate," Thwaites. 



Vah. ? affinis; leaves sparsely hairy narrowly elliptic-lanceolate 4 by -J-f in. 

 Grumilea affinis, Thw. Enum. 148. 



22. P. xnadraspatana, ^00%./. ; petioles leaves beneath and inflores- 

 cence rusty-tomentose, leaves large long-petioled elliptic or eUiptic-obovate 

 obtuse or subacute, nerves 20-30 pair, cymes reduced to a globose sessile head, 

 fruit ellipsoid and grooved, calyx-limb very short. Psychotria, Wall. Cat. 

 8366. 



" Heeb. Madisas," WalUch. 



Branches very stout, woody, covered with brown shining bark, tips pubescent with 

 spreading hairs. Leaves 6-12 by 2|-4 in., thinly coriaceous beneath, finely pubescent 

 between the rufous-tomentose numerous slender nerves ; base narrowed into a 1^ in. 

 petiole ; stipules connate, villous, membranous. Head 1 in. diam., terminating the 

 stout branch, and in one specimen covering the bases of the pair of petioles, densely 

 rufous-pubescent ; bracts and bracteoles numerous, as long as the flowers, linear or 

 oblong, membranous, villous, persistent, outer broader. Calyx-tube shorter than the 

 6 unequal lanceolate villous lobes. Corolla not seen. Fruit ^ in. long, villous, 

 crowned by the lanceolate calyx-lobes. Seed with very deep dorsal and 2 narrow 

 ventral grooves. — In habit and appearance this resembles P. Wightiana and Helferiana, 

 but differs entirely from both ; I have seen no specimen but that in Wallich's Her- 

 barium. 



23. P. stipulacea, Wall, in Roxh. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey Sr Wall. ii. 164 ; 

 Cat. 8329 ; very robust, glabrous, leaves very long oblanceolate or obovate-oblong 

 acuminate narrowed into the very stout winged petiole, nerves about 20 pair, 

 cymes trichotomous, peduncle and branches very stout, flowers pedicelled, fruit 

 ellipsoid deeply 4-grooved. DC. Prodi: iv. 519. 



Penano, Jack, Phillips, Wallich. 



Branches as thick as the middle finger, soft, compressed, and foliage reddish brown 

 when dry. Leaves 8-14 by 3-5 in., not coriaceous, nerves slender; petiole 1-1 J in.; 

 stipules -j-f in. Long, broadly ovate, acute, often 2-fid. Cymes 2-3 in. diam., broader 

 than long ; peduncle and branches very stout ; bracts and bracteoles triangular, upper 

 persistent; flowers very small. Calyx-teeth short, triangular. Corolla-tube ^ in., 

 glabrous, villous within. Fruit \ in. long, grooves deep ; calyx-limb small. Seed, 

 ventrally concave. 



24. P. Jackil, Hook. f. ; glabrous, leaves petioled elliptic or obovate- 

 lanceolate obtusely a,cuminate, nerves 10-12 pair, cymes shortly peduncled 

 brachiate, branches slender, fruit pedicelled 8-grooved. Psychotria, WdU. Cat. 

 8343. 



Penano, Jack, Wallich; Malacca, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 3021). 



Branches slender, polished, nodes with broad stipular scars. Leaves 5-7 by lj-2J 



