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Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
~2 to '5 in. Stipules caducous, leaving a pale narrow scar between the 
petioles. Cymes terminal, about 2 in., rarely 3 in. long; the branches 
compressed and angled, scurfy-puberulous, two of them springing from 
the base, the other three umbellate at the apex of the main axis, each 
bearing at its apex a dense, many-flowered, minutely braeteolate 
capitulum less than • 5 in. in diam. Flowers '2 in. long, sessile. 
Calyx cupular, the mouth with 5 small blunt teeth. Corolla twice as 
long as the calyx ; the mouth with 5 deep oblong blunt lobes ; throat 
densely sericeous. Anthers 5, short, elliptic, basifixed on stout fila- 
ments. Style cylindric, thickened upwards ; stigma of 2 broad lobes. 
Fruit short, compressed ovoid-elliptic, with 8 vertical ridges (2 of 
them double) crowned by the small calyx, • 25 in. long and -15 in. 
in diam. from front to back ; seeds with 4 dorsal ridges ; ventral 
surface plane. Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. III. 166. Psychotria ? Wall. 
Cat. 8355. 
Perak : King’s Collector 2585, 2665 ; Scortechini 1826 ; Wray 4001. 
Penang : Wallich ; Curtis 478. 
3. Psychotria Maingayi, Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. III. 166. A slender 
woody climber ; young branches half as thick as a goose-quill, pubes- 
cent, ultimately pale and glabrous. Leaves thickly membranous, nar- 
rowly elliptic, caudate-acuminate, the base much narrowed ; both 
surfaces glabrous, when dry pale olivaceous, the upper rather the 
darker ; main-nerves about 6 pairs, indistinct on both surfaces 
like the midrib ; length 2 to 3'25 in. ; breadth '65 to P2 in. ; petiole 
•1 to -2 in., slender. Stipules cartilaginous, persistent, connate into a 
tube - 15 in. long with a few hairs at the truncate and toothed or acute 
apex. Cymes axillary, on slender, compressed, coarsely pubescent 
peduncles shorter than the leaves, few-branched. Flowers sessile, 
bracteoles linear. Calyx much longer than the pubescent ovary, widely 
campanulate ; the lobes ovate-triangular, caudate-acuminate, spreading. 
Corolla unknown. Fruit broadly ellipsoid, with 8 deep vertical grooves, 
pale, nearly glabrous when ripe, -2 in. long. 
Singapore : Maingay (K.D.) 926 ; Ridley 6924. 
4. Psychotria sarmentosa, Blume Bijdr. 964. Scandent ; woody ; 
young stems thinner than a goose-quill, pale, glabrous. Leaves thinly 
coriaceous, elliptic-oblanceolate to elliptic, acute or shortly and abruptly 
acuminate, much narrowed at the base, edges slightly recurved ; both 
surfaces pale brown tinged with olivaceous when dry, minutely reticu- 
late ; the upper glabrous, the lower sometimes pubescent only on the 
stout midrib ; main-nerves 7 to 10 pairs, curving slightly upwards, 
faint ; length 2'5 to 4 in. ; breadth 1 to 1-75 in. ; petioles '4 to '75 in., 
winged above. Stipules broad at the base, the apex caudate-acuminate. 
