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Streblosd ' is a climbing Psychotria of the Indian Archipelago, with 

 leaves slightly hairy, whose corolla is said to be slightly imbricate ; 

 but we have always seen it valvate. 



Mapouria ^ comprises Psychotrias in which the face of the albumen 

 is neither traversed by a vertical furrow, nor concave, nor involute, 

 but flat or nearly so. The large caducous stipules are often mem- 

 branous/ 



Straussia* consists of Oceanic Psychotrias, vfith long-pedunculate 

 cymes, short articulate pedicels, and basifixed anthers. 



Parastraussia,' also Oceanic, has flowers united in loose cymes, 

 with an obconical, depressed ovary, a short campanulate calyx, 

 a shojt corolla, much depressed in the bud, covered with silky hairs, 

 and stamens inserted between the lobes of the corolla. 



Cleisocratera ' is a Psychotria of Borneo, with "leaves slightly 

 serrulate," tetramerous flowers united in slender terminal cymes and 

 dentate calyx. 



ProscepKalium ^ is a Javan Psychotria, said to be " pseudo-para- 

 sitic," the pentamerous flowers of which have a thick pedicel, a 

 bilocular ovary and a style with a large stigmatiferous head, obtusely 

 bilobed. 



Galycosia,^ Oceanic Psychotrias whose calyx, often caducous, is 

 usually developed into a rather large membranous 5-fid horn. The 

 terminal inflorescences are cymes which may contract and conse- 

 quently resemble capitules. 



Suteria^ has also a calyx in the form of a bell or dilated tube, 

 particularly in Oodonocalyas,^" where it is divided above into five wide 

 lobes. . 'The flowers are in terminal or oftener axillary cymes, and 



1 KoKTH. Ned. KniidJc. Arch. ii. 246.— Mia. n. 260.— H. Bn. Adansonia, xii. 327. 



Ann. Mm. Zugd.-Sat. iv. 211, 262.— H. Bn. ^ h. t&th. Adansonia, -x^. 251, 329 (New Cale- 



Adansonia, xii. 325. donian species). 



2 AuEL. Guian. 175, t. 67.— Eich. Rub. 93.— ^ Korth. Verh. Nat. Geschied. 256, t. 62.— 

 Endl. Gen. n. 3149. — Benth. (Erst. Rub. Cent- B. H. Gen. n. 123, n. 262.— H. Bn. Adansonia, 

 roamer. 10.— M.AS.B. I'lora{W 5), i57.— Simira xii. 327. 



•AuEl. loc. cit. i. 170, t. 65. ' Korth. Ned.Kruidh. Arch. ii. 248;— B. H. 



3In U. viburnifoUa, of Mexioo, which we ©dn.ii. 122,n. 261.— H.Bn. ^<?a»so»i(»,xii. 327. 



have made a section OpuUgoga {Adansonia, xii. « A. Gkay, Froc. Amer. Acad. iv. 48.— Seem. 



330), the wide and memhranous caducous sti- Fl.Vit. 133.— B.H. Gen. u. 122, n. 259.— H. Bn. 



•pules at first completely envelope the terminal Adansonia, xii. 326. 



cymes. The lobes of the corolla are oomiculate » DO. Frodr. iv. 536.— Endl. Gen. n. 3144.— 



as in Rudgea; the leaves, are crenelate and B.H. Gen. u. 130, n. 116.— B..-&Ti. Adansonia, 



covered with a whitish down. xii. 326. . 



* DG.Frodi: iv. 502 [Ooffea sect. 4).— A. Gray, " Miers, Lindl. Veg. Kingd. 764 (not Bl.). - 



Froc. Amer. Acad. iv.. 43.— B.H. Gen. ii. 122, Lindl. Collect, t. 21 (^CepAielis). 



