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cartilaginous cocci with 3 bold ridges. Seeds bluntly 5-ridged on the 
dorsal, broadly grooved on the ventral surface. DC. Prod. IY. 520 ; 
Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. III. 169. P. microcar pa, Wall. Cat. 8344. 
Strcblosa tortilis, Korth. Kruidk. Arch. II. 246. 
Penang : Wallich 8344 ; Curtis 405, 1269. Singapoke : Lobb. 
Pebak : King’s Collector 710, 2627 ; Scortechini. — Distrib. Sumatra, 
Forbes 1495. 
15. Psychotria Griffithii, Hook. fil. PL Br. Ind. III. 171. A 
shrub ; glabrous except the puberulous inflorescence ; young branches 
thinner than a goose-quill, terete, of a dark colour when dry. Leaves 
■coriaceous, oblong or elliptic, shortly and somewhat abruptly acumi- 
nate, the base cuneate, the edges slightly recurved and pale, both 
surfaces drying olivaceous-green, shining, the midrib and the 12 to 
15 pairs of curved spreading main-nerves distinct ; length 6 to 10 in. ; 
breadth 1-75 to 3'5 in. ; petiole -4 to -8 in., slightly winged above, 
stout. Stipules broadly triangular, sub-acute, "2 to -3 in. long. Cymes 
terminal, solitary, pyramidal, about 1'5 in. long and the same in 
breadth, on naked compressed peduncles 1-5 in. or more long (lengthen- 
ing to 2 in. or more in fruit) ; branches short, stout, puberulous, 
ebracteolate ; the ultimate ones bearing the shortly pedicelled flowers 
in cymules of three. Flowers -2 in. long. Calyx campanulate, with 
■5 broadly triangular acute sub-erect teeth. Corolla as long as the 
calyx, fleshy, tubular, with 5 broad oblong hooded lobes ; the tube 
finely sericeous inside, otherwise glabrous. Anthers 5, broadly oblong, 
entire, dorsifixed ; the filaments thin, compressed, broad. Style short, 
with 2 broad flat lobes. Fruit elliptic, slightly obovoid, the apex sub- 
truncate, crowned by the remains of the disk and calyx, glabrous, black 
when dry, -4 in. long and -35 in. broad ; with 4 broad vertical ridges, two 
of them grooved externally and consisting of two ridges united, the 
other two single ; 2-celled, and 2-seeded. Seeds large, the dorsal 
surface with a single ridge, the ventral flat, not grooved, everywhere 
smooth. 
Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 3044; Maingay (K.D.) 918; Hervey ; 
Derry 367. Perak : Ridley 2873. Singapore : Ridley 2872, 2873, 
6314, 6468, 6556; Hullett 848. 
16. Psychotria angulata, Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. II. 243. 
A shrub 4 to 6 ft. high, glabrous except the inflorescence ; young 
branches pale brown when dry, thinner than a goose-quill, terete. 
Leaves coriaceous, oblanceolate to oblanceolate-elliptic, the apex shortly 
and rather abruptly acuminate, the base much narrowed ; both surfaces 
brown when dry, tinged with olivaceous ; the upper very shining, the 
broad midrib and nerves depressed ; the lower less shining, the midrib 
