8 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Perak : Scortechini 311, 404, 426 ; King’s Collector 897, 2566, 
5373. 
This closely resembles P. laxiflora, BL, but has 5-merous flowers and longer, less 
clavate fruit. 
8. Psychotria pilulifera, n. sp., King & Gamble. A small tree 
or climber ; all parts except the inflorescence glabrous ; young branches 
about as thick as a crow-quill, terete, pale brown when dry. Leaves 
coriaceous, narrowly elliptic, much tapered to both ends ; both surfaces 
olivaceous when dry, the lower slightly the paler ; main-nerves 6 or 
7 pairs, inconspicuous, the midrib bold beneath when dry ; length 2-5 to 
3-5 in.; breadth -75 to 1 in. ; petiole -35 to -4 in. long, slender. Inflores- 
cence a terminal, few-branched, puberulous panicle of condensed 8-10- 
flowered globular cymes. Floivcrs and their short pedicels minutely 
tomentose. Calyx shortly campanulate, the mouth with 5 spreading 
triangular acute lobes. Corolla tubular ; the lobes oblong, broad, with 
small inflexed apices. Anthers 5, attached to the throat by short fila- 
ments surrounded by coarse hair. Fruit sub-globose, with 10 bold 
vertical ridges (2 of them double), crowned by the small calyx, -2 long 
and - 15 in. in diam. Seeds with 3 bold ridges on the dorsal surface ; 
ventral surface plane. 
Perak, at elevations of 3,000 to 5,000 feet : Wray 287, 398, 434, 946, 
3870. 
9. Psychotria ovoidea, Wall. Cat. 8383. A slender woody climber, 
20 to 40 feet long ; stems thinner than a goose-quill, densely rusty- 
pubescent. Leaves with recurved margins, coriaceous, ovate- or 
elliptic-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, the base cuneate or rounded, 
sometimes minutely cordate ; upper surface olivaceous when dry, 
glabrous, the main-nerves depressed ; the lower brown, pubescent on 
the stout midrib and 5 to 7 pairs of prominent curved ascending main- 
nerves, puberulous on the interspaces; length P5 to 2-5 in.; breadth -85 
to 1-25 in. ; petioles ‘15 to -25 in. long. Stipules connate, ovate-lanceo- 
late, -25 in. long, caducous. Cymes -75 to 2 in. in diam., trichotomous, 
solitary, terminal, rusty-pubescent, on angled peduncles -5 to 1 in. long. 
Floivers about -15 in. long, on short pedicels, crowded in dense cymes 
at the ends of the branches and mixed with linear bracteoles. Calyx 
campanulate, with 5 spreading acute teeth. Corolla twice as long as 
the calyx, salver-shaped, with 5 lobes, the tube villous inside. Fruit 
ovoid-globose, '15 in. long, the apex crowned by the calyx, the sides 
with 6 faint vertical ridges. Seeds faintly 3-ridged on the dorsal surface ; 
the ventral surface broad, flat. Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. III. 166. 
Singapore : Wallich, Seeman 2348. Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 
923 ; Ridley 97, 8407. 
