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acute, reflexed, ■ 2 or '3 in. long; the peduncle 1-5 to 2-5 in. long, scaly, 
tomentose ; ultimate branches short, bearing at their apices dense 
eapitules of small sub-sessile flowers, mixed with short broad brac- 
teoles. Flozvers about '1 in. long. Calyx cupular-campanulate, pubes- 
cent ; the mouth wide and with 5 blunt, triangular, spreading lobes. 
Corolla exceeding the calyx, widely tubular, with 5 or 6 short inflexed 
teeth, glabrous inside, hairy outside. Anthers oblong, blunt at each 
end, the filaments short. Fruit ellipsoid, tapering equally to each end, 
boldly 10-ridged, somewhat compressed, crowned by the hairy calyx- 
lobes, otherwise sub-glabrous, '25 to - 3 in. long and - 2 in. across. Seeds 
with 5 dorsal ridges, the ventral surface plane. 
Perak, on Birch’s Hill, elev. 4,000 feet : Scortechini 258 ; Wray 1 ; 
King’s Collector 2134,2950, 7348. Selangor: Bidley 7432. 
The flowers are described as white, and the ripe fruit as cherry red. Named in 
honour of Mr. Birch, a British civil officer, who was murdered by the aborigines in 
Perak. 
21. Psychoteia fulva, Buch.-Ham. ex. Wall. Cat. 8366, excl. B. A 
shrub ; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, dark brown when 
dry, bearing a few scattered coarse hairs. Leaves thickly membranous, 
elliptic, shortly acuminate and tapering almost equally to the base ; 
upper surface without hairs except a few on the midrib near the base, 
under surface with dark cinereous pubescence on the midrib and 15 to 
18 pairs of sub-horizontal slightly curved main-nerves ; length 5 to 
7 in., breadth l - 75 to 3'5 in. ; petioles 1-25 to 2'4 in., coarsely and 
deciduously pubescent. Stipules membranous, broadly oblong, the 
apex deeply and aeuminately bifid, the edges coarsely ciliate ; length 
about 1 in. Cymes pedunculate, axillary, trichotomous, the flowers in 
condensed capitular cymes at the ends of the short branches, enveloped 
when in bud in 2 or 3 large deciduous bracts ; in fruit about 2 in. across 
and less in length ; peduncles about 2 in. long ; branches about - 5 in. long, 
horizontal ; all, like the short flower pedicels, coarsely rusty-pubescent. 
Calyx cupular, with 5 deep, spreading, narrow, acuminate lobes. Corolla 
not seen. Fruit narrowly elliptic, somewhat compressed, tapering 
slightly to each end, the apex crowned by the erect connivent calyx- 
lobes, boldly but somewhat unequally 12-ridged, glabrous, 45 in. long 
and -25 in. in diam. Seeds 5-ridged on the dorsal, the ventral surface 
flat. Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. III. 169, excl. syu. P. monticola , Kurz. 
Psychotria, Wall. Cat. 8337 ; Griff. Notulas, IY. 268 ; Ic. PI. Asiat. 
t. 479, f. 2. 
Pebak, On Ulu BatungPadang : Wray 1615. — Distrib. E. Bengal, 
Griffith (K.D.) 3022, 3034, 3035, 3036 ; Khasia, Hook f. & Thoms. 14. 
P. monticola, Kurz, a Burmese plant, lias been reduced to P. fulva, Buch.-Ham., 
but in my opinion it is quite distinct. 
