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very prominent, and the 8 to 10 pairs of spreading nerves thin but 
distinct; length 4 to 6 in. ; breadth 1 to 1'75 in. ; petiole '2 to '5 in., 
slightly winged near the apex. Stipules broadly triangular, acute, sub- 
acute or bifid, -25 in. long. Cyme solitary, terminal, pyramidal, about 
1'5 in. long, on a naked peduncle 1'25 to 3 in. long; branches whorled, 
shortly bracteolate at their bases, spreading ; the ultimate branchlets 
crowded at their ends with numerous sessile flowers -25 in. long. 
Calyx pale, widely cupular, '05 in. long, with irregular small teeth. 
Corolla thick, tubular, its 5 broad lobes with acute indexed apices ; the 
throat densely sericeous. Anthers elliptic, blunt, on short filaments. 
Fruit ovoid or narrowly obovoid, pulpy, obscurely ridged, glabrous, 
crowned by the small calyx, '5 in. long and half as much broad (unripe), 
2-celled. Seeds 2, plano-convex. Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. IY. 
210; Hook. fil. El. Br. Ind. III. 172. Psychotria, Wall. Cat. 8348. 
Chasalia perforata, Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 546. 
Malacca: Griffith ( K.D.) 3037. Province Wellesley : Ridley 7026. 
Johore : Ridley 11161. Singapore : Ridley 2867. Pahang : Ridley 
1353. Penang : Curtis 14, 726 ; King's Collector 1683. Perak : 
King’s Collector 4170. — Disthib. Burma. 
17. Psychotria Helferiana, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., 1872, 
II. 314. A shrub ; the whole plant more or less rusty-pubescent ; 
young branches as thick as a goose-quill or thicker, the pubescence 
dense and deciduous. Leaves thickly membranous, elliptic or oblong- 
elliptic, rarely obovate-elliptic, the apex acuminate, the base usually 
cuneate but sometimes rounded ; both surfaces dark brown when dry, 
the lower somewhat tinged with red and less hairy than the upper ; 
the hairs on both adpressed and very numerous on the stout midrib, 
less so on the 9 to 16 pairs of spreading curved main-nerves ; length 
6 to 12 in. ; breadth 2'5 to 4'5 in. ; petioles 1 to 1'75 in. Stipules 
broadly ovate to oblong-lanceolate, often as much as 1 in. long, the 
apex acuminately bifid. Flowers -2 in. long, numerous, mixed with many 
unequal bracteoles mostly longer than themselves, all acuminate and 
some of them bifid and crowded in dense pedunculate capitula in a 
few-branehed axillary cyme usually shorter than the leaf-petioles. 
Calyx-tohe narrowly campanulate, with 5 lanceolate erect lobes nearly 
as long as itself, everywhere pilose. Corolla similar to the calyx, but 
smaller and less hairy. Stamens almost sessile ; anthers broad, blunt. 
Fruit ovoid or ellipsoid, somewhat compressed and boldly 8-ridged, 
crowned by the lobes of the calyx, -3 in. long and - 2 in. in diam. Kurz 
For. PL Burm. II. 11 : Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. III. 172. 
Singapore : Wallich 8368 ; Goodenough 184 ; Maingay (K.D.) 921. 
Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 921 ; Ridley 184 ; Lobb. Johore : Ridley 
