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Flora of the Malayan Peninsula 
Cymes terminal, puberulous, shorter than the leaves, on short peduncles, 
cymosely branched ; the branches angled, spreading, many-flowered ; 
braeteoles minute, linear. Flowers about -15 in. long, puberulous out- 
side, on short pedicels. Calyx campanulate, with 5 short triangular 
teeth. Corolla villous at the base in the interior. Fruit ellipsoid, 
•25 in. long, with 10 vertical ridges (2 of them double). Seeds with 
4 dorsal ridges, the ventral surface plane. DC. Prod. IV. 522 ; Wight 
Ic. 1038 ; Thwaites Enum. PL Ceyl. 148 ; Kurz For. FI. Burrn. II. 
14; Hook. fil. FI. Hr. Ind. III. 165. P. obovata, Wall. Cat. 8380. 
Gncmilea Junghuhniana, Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. II. 296. Psychotria sp., 
Wall. Cat. 8382, 8352 ?, 8384. 
Singapore : Ridley 2874, 2875, 9112. Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 
3043. Perak : King's Collector 4967, 7572. Penang : King 1346 ; 
Curtis 951, 2781. — Distrib. Burma, Wallich ; Heifer (K.D.) 3041, 
&c. ; Indian Peninsula ; Ceylon ; Malay Archipelago ; Andaman Islands. 
Var. pachyphylla, King & Gamble. Leaves thickly coriaceous, 
shining, greenish when dry, 3 to 4 in. long ; fruit '25 in. long, sub- 
globular. 
Penang : Ridley 9363 ; Curtis 2215. 
5. PsYCjHOTRiA Kunstleri, n. sp., King & Gamble. A glabrous 
epiphyte with slightly angled stems thinner than a goose-quill, pale 
yellowish when dry. Leaves succulent, glossy and bluish-green when 
fresh, but yellow on both surfaces and dull when dry, narrowly elliptic- 
oblong, rarely oblong-oblanceolate, gradually and equally tapering to 
each end ; the midrib bold, channelled on the upper surface ; main- 
nerves 4 to 6 pairs, spreading, very indistinct; length 3 to 5'5 in.; 
breadth '8 to l - 4 in. ; petioles -4 to '8 in. long. Stipules forming a car- 
tilaginous persistent cup with an entire mouth, about -1 in. long. Cyme 
solitary, umbellate, terminal, longer than the leaves (the naked peduncle 
of 2 to 3 in. being included), lax, from 2 to 4 in. broad; branches 
spreading, dividing near their apices into umbellate cymes ; braeteoles 
few, linear, acute. Floivers not seen : on basally bracteolate pedicels 
as long as themselves. Fruit '35 in. long, ellipsoid, deeply 10-grooved, 
crowned by the rather large remains of the 5-toothed calyx, 10-ridged. 
Seeds dorsally 4-ridged, the ventral surface flat. 
Perak : Scortechini ; King’s Collector 1886, 4953, 6588 ; Wray 
2230. — Distrib. Sumatra, Forbes 2823. 
6. Psychotria penangensis, Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. III. 175. A 
shrubby epiphyte or climber, 8 to 12 feet long, all parts except the 
inflorescence glabrous ; young branches slightly compressed, thinner 
than a goose-quill, dark-coloured. Leaves thinly coriaceous, broadly 
elliptic-obovate or sub-ovate, shortly and abruptly triangular, acumi- 
