Fsychotda.] lxxv. eubiacbj:. (J. D. Hooker.) ]73 



petiole stout, nerves 12-14 pair, stipules large rufous, cymes subseasile, flowers 

 crowded, bracts and bracteoles minute, fruit broadly ellipsoid, calyx-limfe 

 minute. 



NicoBAK IsJLANDS ; coral-peef forests on the east coast of Katchall, Kurz. 



Stem subsessile, 1-2 ft., very stout, rusty-pubescent. Leaves 6-10 by 2-4 in., 

 rather succulent, base acute, brown when dry ; petiole very stout, ^1 in. ; stipules 

 J-f in., broadly ovate, 2-fid. Cymes puberulous ; branches very short in a flowering 

 specimen, long and spreading in fruiting ones ; flowers pedicelled, very small. Calyx- 

 teeth ovate, acute. Corollontube ovoid, throat villous ; lobes acute, reflexed. Fruit 

 J in. long, glabrous, pyrenes acutely ribbed. — I have very imperfect materials, and 

 depend on Kurz's character. This describes the albumen as spuriously ruminate, 

 alluding, no doubt, to the furrows. 



Sect. IV. Seeds dorsally convex and rounded, not or slightly ridged or 

 grooved. 



44. P. calocarpa, Kurz in Jmirn. As. Soc. 1872, ii. 316 ; For. Fl. ii. 9 ; 

 subherbaceous, young parts and leaves beneath puberulous vyith crisped hairs 

 finally glabrate, leaves long- or short-petioled lanceolate or elliptic-bnceolate 

 acuminate often variegated margins entire or broadly crenate, intra-marginal 

 nerve conspicuous, stipules large ovate often 2-fid, cymes small axiUary and 

 terminal shortly peduncled, calyx-teeth slender, fruit ellipsoid or subglobose 

 crowned with the calyx-teeth. P. asiatica, Wall, in Soxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey 

 8f Wall. ii. 160 ; Cat. 8331 ; not of lAnn. or of Roxh. P. viridiflora, Reinw. 

 var. 2, Kwrz Far. Fl. ii. 13. P. piota. Wall. Cat. 8353 ; and Psychotria, 8359. 

 Psychotria, 24, 25, 26, Herh. Ind. Or. B.f. ^ T. 



NrPAL, Wallich. Sickim HnnALATA, alt. 2-4000 ft., J. D. H. Uppbe Assam ; 

 Suddya, Griffith. Khasia Mrs., ascending to 4000ft.,2)ei&7*a, &c. CkcsAjt, Keenan. 

 Chittasokg, Maetabah, and Tbhasseeim:, Gomez, &c. 



A small evergreen subherbaceous bush, 1-3 ft. high, with often a creeping stem 

 sending up erect soft branches. Leaves very variable in size and shape, 4-8 by 1-3 

 in., dark or pale green when dry, narrowed into a petiole J-2 in. long, shining or 

 opaque above, thinly coriaceous or membranous, nerves sometimes margined with 

 white ; margin often crenate, the crenatures following the loops of the intramarginal 

 nerve ; stipules usually ovate or orbicular, and 2-cuspidate, J-J in. diam. Q/mes 

 often secund and drooping, with spreading or reflexed fruiting branches, glabrous or 

 pubescent, lax or dense-flowered; bracts lanceolate, caducous or subpersistent ; 

 flowers subsessile, pink greenish or white. Calyx-teeth linear, ciliate. Corolla tvbe 

 very short, throat villous. Fruit \ in. long, succulent, orange or red ; pyrenes dor- 

 sally obscurely 4-ribbed. Beed with or without a T-shaped ventral groove. — P. 

 mridifolia, Eeinwdt., referred here by Kurz, is a Grumilea. I have not seen his 

 specimens, of which he makes 2 varieties : one with entire leaves and inconspicuous 

 calyx-teeth, the other (from Chittagong) with waved leaves and larger calyx-teeth. 



45. P. Thomsoni, Booh.f. ; cymes pubescent, leaves petioled lanceolate 

 caudate-acimunate, intra-marginal nerve conspicuous, stipules large 2-cuspidate, 

 cymes terminal long-peduncled trichotomous, calyx-teeth triangular. ' Psy- 

 chotria, No. 25, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. ^ T. 



Khasia Mts., Griffith (Kew Distrib. 3027) ; Churra, alt. 4000 ft., J. D. H. ^ T. T. 



Very similar to P. calocarpa in foliage, but quite different in the elongate cyme, 

 which is stout erect and with the peduncle 3-4 in. long, and the very short broad 

 calyx-teeth. The stipules are ^-| in. long, orbicular, with two long cusps, and the 

 bracteoles are subulate. 



46. P. denticulata, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey ^ Wall. ii. 166 ; 

 .Cat.. 8326 ; glabrous or leaf-nervea beneath and cymes puberulous, leaves petioled 

 large broaidly elliptic or obovate or oblanoeolate acute or abruptly acuminate. 



