Psijchotria.] LXIV. RUBIACEiE. 771 



each branch bearing a small dense cyme or head of small sessile flowers. 

 Bracts not exceeding the flowers. Calyx hirsute, the lobes or teeth acute, 

 longer than the tube. Corolla-tube broad, about 2 lines long ; lobes shorter than 

 the tube, hirsute outside ; anthers exserted. Fruits ovoid, pubescent, crowned 

 by the calyx-limb ; pyrenes and seeds longitudinally ribbed and furrowed. 

 Hab.: Point Danger to Cape Yoik. 



Var. angustifolia. Leaves narrow, on very short petioles, softly villous. Cymes with very few 

 flower-heads. Eockingham Bay, J. Dallachy. 



4. P. daphnoides (Daphne-like), A. Ciinn.; Hook. Bot. May. t. 3228; Benth. 

 Fl. Austr. iii. 428. Shrubby, glabrous, except the inflorescence. Leaves obovate 

 or oblong, very obtuse or rarely shortly acuminate, in some specimens under lin., 

 in others 2in. long or more, narrowed into a petiole, somewhat coriaceous, almost 

 veinless except the midrib. Cymes terminal, pedunculate, trichotomous or the 

 primary branches almost umbellate, 1 to nearly 2in. diameter, rather dense, the 

 flowers all sessile but not capitate, the branches and calyxes hoary-tomentose or 

 glabrous. Calyx-limb 5-toothed. Corolla about 2 lines long, glabrous outside, 

 bearded inside at the throat, the lobes as long as the tube. Fruit ovoid, the 

 pyrenes and seeds prominently ribbed and furrowed. 



Hab.: Cape York, ili'GiHiDTOi/; N.E. coast, A. Cunningham: Burnett Biver, F. v. ilneller 

 VoH Denison, Fitzalan ; Wide Bay, Bidioill ; Pitzroy River, Bowman; Eookhampton, Tlwzet 

 Dallachy ; Brisbane River, Moneton Bay, A. Cunningham, F. v. Mueller. 



Wood of a light colour and close grain. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 258. 



The tropical specimens have mostly large leaves ; the small-leaved specimens (mostly under 

 lin.) are chiefly subtropical. — Benth. 



Var. angustifolia. Leaves narrow-oblong. 



5. P. poliostemma (alluding to the little garlands of hoary flowers), Benth. 

 Fl. Austr. iii. 428. Nearly allied to -the larger forms of P. daphnoides, but the 

 leaves are larger, mostly 3 to 4in. long,' the flowers numerous, in more 

 pedunculate cymes, the corollas hoary-tomentose outside, and the fruit globular, 

 not ovoid. 



Hab.: Cape York, M'Gillivray ; Edgecombe Bay, Dallachy; Mount Elliott, Fitzalan. 



A. Gray, from a memorandum in Herb. Hook., thinks this may be a variety of his P. 

 tephrosanthes, from the Fiji Islands. We have no specimens to compare, but he describes t)ie 

 leaves as acuminate, the pedicels slender, and the calyx truncate, none of which points agree 

 with our plant, and which seem to indicate rather a species of the section Grmidlia. — Benth. 



6. P. Fitzalani (after E. Fitzalan), Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 428. Quite 

 glabrous. Leaves broadly ovate or obovate, obtuse, narrowed into a petiole, 2 to 

 3in. long, very thick and coriaceous. Cymes pedunculate, terminal, corymbose, 

 shorter than the leaves, glabrous. Calyx-limb short, distinctly toothed. Corolla 

 nearly 3 lines long, the tube almost ovoid, hairy inside ; lobes 5, shorter than the 

 tube. Anthers exserted. Style with 2 short oblong stigmatic lobes. Ovules of 

 Psychotria. Fruit not seen. 



Hab.: Port MoUe, Fitzalan (Burdekin Expedition). 



7. P. nematopoda (peduncles thread-like), F. r. M. Fragm. vii. and ix. 184. 

 A dwarf shrub, or, at times, arborescent ; silky-tomentose. Leaves ovate- 

 lanceolate, 1^ to 2i-in. long, pale on under side, shortly petiolate. Stipules 

 lanceolate, 4 lines long, biacuminate, nerves and veins conspicuous. Peduncles 

 axillary, 1 to 2in. long. Bracts subulate, 1| to 2 lines long. Calyx-teeth 4, 

 deltoid. Corolla bearded inside at the base, 4-lobed ; lobes ovate. Anthers 

 roundish, inserted at base of corolla ; filaments very short. Style 1 line long, 

 shortly bifid. Drupe globose-ovate, red, about 3 lines long ; pyrenes 2, smooth. 



Hab.: Mackay River, /. Dallachy (F. v. M.) 

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