176 LXXT. BUBiACEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Psychotria. 



acuminate serrulate nerves glabrous, stipules simple, ealyx-teeth rounded mem- 

 branous, panicles terminal glomerate." — Nipal, Wallich. 



I suspect that this is P. dmticulata badly described. The term serrulate is appli- 

 cable to no Eubiaceous genus but Carlemannia, which is not Kipalese, and which 

 Don would never have referred to Pyschotria. The only other Nipalese species are 

 P. calooarpa, which has broadly erenulate leaves, but slender calyx-teeth, and P. 

 erratioa, which differs in the cyme and calyx too. 



P. sPHiEEOCAEPA, Wall, iii Boxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey ^ Wall. ii. 161 ; glabrous 

 except the cymes, leaves petioled large broad elliptic acuminate or acute coriaceous, 

 nerves strong dose-set, cymes terminal pednneled compact subglobose villous, flowers 

 subcapitate, fruit spherical smooth. — Silhet hills, Wallich. 



Shrubby; branches thick, ends compressed. Leaves 8-12 in., base sometimes 

 rounded, shining above; petiole 1 in., rounded; stipules large, ovate, 2-lobed, lobes 

 acuminate. Calyx-teeth subulate. CoroUa-tvhe short, throat villous. Fruit size of 

 a large pea, petioled, without ribs; septum at lei^h obliterated. Seeds hemi- 

 spheric, ventral face flattened with a X-sl'^.ped groove. — I have seen no specimens, 

 and have taken the description from Wallich. It evidently resembles P. silhetensis, 

 of which the leaves are never rounded at the base, and the flowers not capitate ; 

 moreover, "Wallich has silhetensis under another name. He says he received it in 

 1815 and 1821, and I find in his herb, a specimen of P.fulva marked as P. sphcero- 

 oarpa ?, received from Silhet in the latter year. Possibly P. sph<eTocar'pa is made up 

 of leaves and flowers of fulva and fruit of silhetensis, or it may be a form of P. 



P. vAGiNANS, DC. Frodr. iv. 520, from Ceylon, is not identifiable from the de- 

 scription ; it may be a Gaertnera. 



P. ?vAaiNAHS, DC. of W. S[ A. Frodr. 434; Wight Cat. 1352.— I find no speci- 

 mens of this in Wight's Herbarium, and, the fruit being unknown, it is unre- 

 cognisable. 



P. {Grumilea) vaginans. Dais. mss. in Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Ill; shrubby, 

 erect, glabrous, leaves large obovate, stipules ovate or lanceolate acute caducous 1^ 

 2 in. long, combined in a sheathing tube, cymes terminal peduncled paniculate 3- 

 chotomous puberulous, flowers small white, fruit like a black peppercorn. — Chorla 

 Grhat and Mahableshwur, rare. — I suspect this to be P. tnmcata. 



P. ampla. Wall. Cat. 8333, is a FavMa. 



P. AsiATicA, lAnn. Amam. Acad. v. 395, is a Jamaican plant received by Linnseus 

 from Patrick Browne, and is P. Brownd, Spreng. 



P. oxTPHYLLA, Wall. Cat. 8374, is a Gaertnera, as are Psyehotria, 8341, 8342, 

 8388, 8389. 



PsYOHOTRiA, Wall Cat. 8362, is in part Chasalia cuniiflora and in part a Morinda ; 

 8363 is in part Chasalia eurviflora and in part a Leea ; 8376 is an Ixora, as is 8387 ; 

 8379 is an Apocynea. 



76. CKASAIiXA, Comnu. 



Characters of Psyehotria, but corollar-tube usually slender and curved ; seeds 

 orlaicular, dorsally much compressed, ventrally deeply concave, hence some- 

 what cup-shaped; albumen equable. — Distkib. About 10 species, tropical 

 Asiatic and African. 



1. C. eurviflora, Thw. Ermm. 150, 421 ; glabrous, leaves membranous 

 from broadly elliptic to obovate-lanceolate oblanceolate or narrowly linear-oblong 

 acute cuspidate acuminate or caudate-acuminate, base narrowed into a long or 

 short petiole, nerves few or many, cymes terminal bracteate trichotomous dense- 

 or lax-flowered, corolla tubular curved. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 14. 0. lurida, eurvi- 

 flora, tetrandra (exel. syn. rostrata), and Sangiana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 282, 

 Arm.. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iv. 202, 203, and Fl. Ind. Bat. Su/ppl. 646. Psyehotria 

 lurida, -BZ. 5i/S. 959 ; DC. Frodr. iv. 521. P. eurviflora and ophioxyloides. 

 Wall, in Boxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey ^ Wall. ii. 167, 168, Cat. 8360, 8364; DC. 

 I. c. 520. P. ambigua, W. ^ A. Prodi: 433; Wt. le. t. 127. P. tetrandra, 



