TREES AND SHRUBS. 



PSYCHOTRIA, L. 



Psychotria, Linnaeus, Syst. ed. 10, 929 (1759). — Meissner, Gen. 169. — Endlicher, Gen. 532. — 

 Bentham & Hooker, Gen. ii. 123. — Engler & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. pt. iv. 112. 



Myrstiphyllum, P. Browne, Hist. Jam. 152 (1756).- Hiern, Cat. Afric. PL Welwitsch, ii. 

 493(1898). 



Psychotrophum, P. Browne, Hist. Jam. 160 (1756). 



Patabea, Aublet, PL Guian. i. 110 (1775). 



Ronabea, Aublet, PL Guian. i. 154 (1775). 



Simira, Aublet, PL Guian. 170 (1775). 



Stellix, Noronha, Verh. Bat. Gen. v. Art. iv. 4 (1790). 



Hylacium, Palisot de Beauvois, Fl. Ow. et Ben. ii. 83 (1807). 



Dychotria, Rafinesque, Ann. Gen. Sci. Phys. vi. 85 (1820). 



Polyozus, Blume, Bijdr. 947 (1826). 



Acmostima, Rafinesque, Syha Tellur. 26 (1838). 



Pleureia, Rafinesque, Syha Tellur. 147 (1838). 



Sulcanux, Rafinesque, Syha Tellur. 148 (1838). 



Myrstiphylla, Rafinesque, Syha Tellur. 148 (1838). 



Cleisocratera, Korthals, Temminck Verh. Nat. Geschied. Bot. 256 (1842). 



Trevirania, Heynhold, Norn. ii. 736 (1846). 



Streblosa, Korthals, Nederl. Kruidk. Arch. ii. pt. ii. 245 (1851). 



Gloneria, Andre, III. Hort. xviii. 76 (1871). 



Uragoga, Baillon, Adansonia, xii. 324 (in part, not Linnaeus) (1879). 



Psyohotrion, St. Lager, Ann. Sci. Bot. Lyon, vii. 132 (1880). 



Trees, shrubs sometimes climbing, or rarely herbs, with watery juices and terete or four-angled 



branchlets. Leaves opposite, rarely in verticils of three or four ; stipules interpetiolar, solitary 



or in pairs, often connate into a sheath, deciduous or persistent. Flowers regular, perfect or 



rarely polygamo-dicecious, small, green, rose color or yellow, in terminal or rarely axillary corym- 

 bose cymes or panicles naked or furnished with bracts; calyx short, adnate to the ovary, five- or 



rarely four-lobed ; corolla funnelf orm, tubular or suborbicular, the tube short or elongated, naked, 



pilose or villose in the throat, the limb five- or rarely four- or six-lobed, the lobes valvate in the 



bud ; disk epigynous, annular; stamens five, rarely four or six, inserted on the tube of the corolla; 



filaments subulate ; anthers linear or oblong, obtuse, attached on the back near the base, introrse, 



two-celled, the cells opening longitudinally ; styles short or elongated, naked or pilose ; stigma 

 two-cleft or two-lobed, the lobes short, subulate or linear, rarely spatulate ; ovule solitary, erect 

 from the bottom of each cell, anatropous, raphe ventral, micropyle inferior. Fruit baccate or 

 drupaceous, small, ovoid, globose or pyriform, rarely in pairs, smooth or ribbed, two-celled and 

 two-seeded ; seeds filling the cavity of the cells, the back convex, smooth, ribbed or sulcate, the 

 ventral face flat or rarely concave, often longitudinally sulcate ; testa thin ; albumen fleshy or 



