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Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
10. Psychotria Ridleyi, n. sp., King & Gamble. A small shrub ; 
all parts glabrous except the inflorescence ; stems half as thick as a 
goose-quill, terete, greenish when dry. Leaves membranous, oblong- 
to elliptic-oblanceolate, the apex abruptly and very shortly acuminate, 
the base much narrowed, both surfaces pale olivaceous when dry, the 
midrib rather prominent, the upper sometimes with scattered minute, 
adpressed white hairs ; main-nerves 7 to 9 pairs, slightly curved, spread- 
ing, faint on both surfaces ; length 3 to 5'5 i<n. ; breadth 1'25 to 2'25 in. ; 
petioles -4 to -8 in. long, winged near the apex. Stipules broadly ovate, 
subacute, '1 in. long. Cyme on a peduncle about 1 in. long (longer in 
fruit), corymbosely branched, the bracts at the forks linear-lanceolate. 
Floivers in cymules of three, everywhere canescent, on short pedicels 
bibracteolate at the base. Calyx campanulate with elongated tube ; 
the mouth with 5 erect ovate-triangular lobes. Corolla longer 
than the calyx ; the tube short, slightly villous at the base 
near the insertion of the broad sub-sessile anthers ; the 5 lobes 
broadly ovate, acute. Fruit ovoid- ellipsoid, 12-ridged, crowned by 
the small calyx, -3 to -4 in. long. Seeds many-ridged on both dorsal 
and ventral surfaces. 
Singapore: Ridley 48, 10818. Johore : Ridley 6472. Malacca: 
on Mt. Ophir, Hullett 811 ; Goodenougli 1363. 
11. Psychotria polycarpa, Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. III. 165. A 
climber, glabrous except the inflorescence ; young branches thinner 
than a goose-quill, terete, when dry dark-coloured. Leaves coriaceous, 
ovate- or obovate-lanceolate to obovate- or ovate-rotund, the apex in the 
narrower forms shortly and bluntly acuminate, in the broader abruptly 
and bluntly apiculate; both surfaces olivaceous when dry, the upper 
somewhat shining, the lower dull and darker, the midrib prominent on 
both ; main-nerves 5 or 6 pairs, spreading, faint on both surfaces ; 
length 2 to 3 in. ; breadth -75 to 1'75 in. ; petioles '3 to -6 in. Stipules 
very short, connate to form a collar, caducous. Panicles large, 
umbellately cymose, longer than the leaves (sometimes very much so) ; 
their branches numerous, spreading, puberulous, with minute bracteoles 
at the divisions. Floivers -15 in. long, numerous, in ultimate cymules 
of 2 or 3, shortly pedicellate. Calyx thick, minutely pubescent, shortly 
campanulate or sub-cupular, the mouth with 5 acute teeth or subentire. 
Corolla longer than the calyx, salver-shaped, its 5 lobes spreading, 
lanceolate, acute, the throat sericeous ; anthers 5, elliptic. Fruit 
ellipsoid, tapered to the base, and the apex crowned by the rather large 
remains of the calyx ; obscurely ridged; '15 in. long and '1 in. in diam. ; 
sometimes sub-globular, the epicarp somewhat pulpy. Seeds slightly 
•convex and faintly ridged on the dorsal surface, the ventral with a broad 
