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Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Penang : Wallich 8329 ; Curtis 732. Trang : Kunstler 1382. 
Pahang : Ridley 2216. Perak : Ridley 2918 ; King s Collector, 
1357, 1382 ; Wray 3440 ; Scortechini 278, 307, 558, 692. — Distrib. 
Sumatra. 
24. Psychotria Curtisii, n. sp., King & Gamble. A shrub, 6 
feet high; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, rusty-pubes- 
cent. Leaves elliptic, sometimes somewhat obovate, tapering equally 
to each end, shortly acuminate, the base cuneate ; both surfaces oliva- 
ceous-brown when dry, the upper glabrous or with a few hairs on the 
midrib near the base, the lower rusty-puberulous between the 9 or 10 
pairs of bold, shortly and densely rusty-pubescent curved ascending 
main-nerves ; length 5 to 8 in. ; breadth 1-5 to 3 in. ; petioles -5 in., 
densely rusty -pubescent. Stipules caducous. Cyme solitary, terminal, 
3-branched, on a pubescent peduncle from -3 to '5 in. long (much 
longer in fruit), branches bearing 3 to 5 sessile flowers in capitula at 
their apices ; bracteoles linear. Floivers - 25 in. long, rusty-pubescent. 
Calyx half-superior, campanulate, the mouth with 5 long, spreading, 
ovate-acuminate lobes. Corolla longer than the calyx, salver-shaped, 
with 5 oblong lobes. Fruit ovoid, tapering to the apex, crowned by 
the long lobes of the calyx, the sides puberulous, 10-ridged. Seeds 
with 4 ridges on the dorsal surface, the ventral plane. 
Penang : Curtis 2695. 
25. Psychotria rhinocerotis, Keinw. ex Blume Bijdr. 961. A 
shrub ; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, at first rusty-tomen- 
tose, afterwards glabrescent and pale brown. Leaves coriaceous, 
obovate-oblong or obovate-oblanceolate, the apex broad, but usually 
with a small abrupt apiculus, the base cuneate ; upper surface oliva- 
ceous, glabrous, the lower brown and softly and finely rusty-pubescent ; 
the midrib broad, more prominent on the upper than on the lower 
surface; main-nerves 10 to 14 pairs, slightly curved, oblique, distinct on 
both surfaces ; length 3 to 5 in. ; breadth l - 35 to 2 - 5 in. ; petiole '2 to - 6 
in., stout. Panicle solitary, terminal, 1'5 in. long and slightly wider; 
branches few, lax, divaricate, cymosely few-flowered. Fruit elliptic- 
ovoid, slightly compressed, with 10 vertical grooves (2 of them 
double), crowned by the rather broad, bluntly 5-toothed calyx, 
acutely 10-ridged (2 ridges double), pubescent between the ridges ; 
length - 25 in. ; breadth '2 in. Seeds dorsally 4-ridged, ventral surface 
plane. Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. III. 292; DC. Prod. IY. 521; Korth. 
Kruidk. p. 242. 
Perak : King’s Collector 8272 ; Scortechini. 
26. Psychotria malayana, Jack in Mai. Misc. I. 3 ; reprinted in 
Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. IY. (1843), p. 26. A shrub ; young branches 
