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22. Psychoteia fulvoidea, n. sp., King & Gamble. A small 
shrub ; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, dark-coloured, 
glabrous. Leaves membranous, narrowly elliptic, acuminate, crenu- 
late, the base cuneate ; upper surface glabrous, dark brown when dry, 
the lower reddish-brown ; the midrib, nerves and reticulations rusty- 
pubescent, otherwise glabrous; midrib prominent on both surfaces, 
the 10 to 14 pairs of spreading, curving main-nerves slightly prominent 
on the lower; length 6 to 7 in. ; breadth 2 to 2 5 in. ; petiole 1 to 
1-3 in. Stipules membranous, ovate, caudate-acuminate, the edges 
irregularly serrate, ciliate, length about 1 in. Cymes axillary, trichoto- 
mous, condensed, about 2 in. broad when in fruit and 1-25 in. long, 
on deflexed, coarsely but shortly pubescent peduncles 3 in. long ; 
their branches short, spreading, bracteate at the divisions and coarsely 
pubescent. Flowers condensed into globose capitulate cymes at the 
apices of the branches, sessile. Calyx narrowly campanulate, pubes- 
cent, with 5 erect acute teeth. Corolla unknown. Fruit narrowly 
elliptic, tapering to each end, the apex crowned by the short pubescent 
lobes, with 12 deep ridges and grooves, glabrous, -4 in. long and -2 in. 
in diam. Seed dorsally 5-ridged, ventrally 2-grooved. 
Perak : Scortechini 538. 
This approaches P. fulva, but is a smaller plant, with crenulate leaves quite 
glabrous on the upper surface and nearly so on the lower. 
23. Psychotria stipulacea, Wall, in Koxb. PI. Ind. ed. Carey & 
Wall. II. 164. A shrub, 1 to 2 feet high, all parts except the inflores- 
cence glabrous ; stems as thick as a goose-quill, brown when dry. 
Leaves membranous, broadly oblanceolate to elliptic, or oblong, abruptly 
and shortly acuminate, much narrowed to the base ; both surfaces 
glabrous, when dry brown with a reddish tinge ; midrib very stout, main- 
nerves 11 to 13 pairs, spreading, slightly curved, distinct on both sur- 
faces; length 5 to 9 in. ; breadth 2 to 4 in. ; petioles -5 to 1-25 in. long, 
winged near the apex. Stipules large, sub-persistent, ovate, sometimes 
bifid, '75 to 1 in. long, and about '4 in. broad. Cyme usually solitary, 
corymbose, trichotomous, terminal, on a short peduncle, bracteate at the 
base, about 2 to 3 in. in diam. ; its branches puberulous, bracts and brac- 
teoles triangular. Flowers '15 in. long, on short pedicels, clustered in 
dense, cymose, capituliform cymes at the ends of the ultimate branches. 
Calyx campanulate, with 5 broad pubescent lobes, the tube glabrous. 
Corolla longer than the calyx, widely campanulate, 4- or 5-toothed. 
Fruit ellipsoid, sub-compressed, 10-ridged, crowned by the small calyx, 
•3 in. long, and -15 in. in diam. Seed dorsally 5-ridged, ventrally con- 
cave, with one central ridge. Wall. Cat. 8329 ; DC. Prod. IV. 519 ; 
Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. III. 167. 
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