Okas alia."] 
BUBIACEiE. 
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tinct cup. C. stipulacea, DC. loc. cit. C. coffeoides, DC. loc. cit. ? 
Gsertnera incarnata, Bojer , Hort. Maur. 217. 
Mauritius, in woods about Moka, etc. Sieber , ii. 271 ! etc. Endemic. 
5. C. Moonise, Baker. A glabrous shrub, with terete branchlets. 
Leaves oblong, subcoriaceous, 3-6 in. long, acute, cuneate at the base, 
subcoriaceous, with 7-8 distinct erecto-patent pairs of main veins; 
petiole |-1 in. long; stipules i in. long, truncate, caducous. Corymb 
very lax, 3-6 in. broad, with divaricate branches and branchlets, all 
the flowers pedicelled ; pedicels sometimes £ in. or more long. Calyx 
campanulate, % in. long, truncate or obscurely 5-toothed. Corolla pure 
white ; tube f in. long ; lobes in. long, lanceolate, acute. 
Mauritius, in mountain woods, Bouton ! Blackburn ! and a beautiful coloured 
drawing by Madame Moon in a collection of sketches kindly sent by Mr. Caldwell. 
Endemic. 
22. PSYCHOTRIA, Linn. 
Calyx-tube campanulate; teeth 5, deltoid. Corolla small, funnel- 
shaped ; lobes 5, lanceolate, valvate, as long as the tube. Stamens 5, 
inserted at the throat of the corolla, included ; filaments very short. 
Ovary 2-, rarely 3-celled ; ovules solitary in the cells ; style filiform, 
with two branches. Fruit a small globose drupe with 2 or rarely 3 
pyrenes. — Shrubs, with opposite leaves, the flowers small, either ter- 
minal, in dense panicles, or axillary. Distbib. The largest genus of 
the order, cosmopolitan in the tropics, including some 500 species. 
Flowers in dense terminal corymbose panicles. 
Lobes of the corolla as long as the tube 1. P. Pervillei. 
Lobes of the corolla not half as long as the tube . . . 2. P. affinis. 
Flowers in axillary umbels 3. P. lanceolata. 
Flowers 2-3 in congested axillary clusters 4. P. Wrightii. 
Flowers solitary in the axils of the leaves 5. P. ferruginea. 
1. P. Pervillei, Baker. A glabrous shrub, with moderately stout 
terete branches. Leaves short-petioled, oblanceolate-obloug, acute, 
subcoriaceous, 3-4 in. long, 1-1J in. broad at the middle, cuneate at 
the base ; stipules small, deltoid, soon withering. Flowers in dense 
corymbose terminal panicles 2-3 in. broad, shorter than the leaves ; 
pedicels very short. Calyx broadly campanulate, in. deep ; teeth 
minute, deltoid. Corolla under ^ in. long ; throat densely pilose ; 
lobes lanceolate, spreading, as long as the tube. Drupe globose, £ in. 
thick, crowned by a nearly truncate rim ; pyrenes 2-3. 
Seychelles, in the woods of Mahe and Praslin. Perville , 154 ! Homo , 267 ! 269 ! 
Very near P. obtusifolia , Lam. 111. tab. 161, fig. 4, of Madagascar. Endemic. 
2. P. affinis, Baker. Very near the last, with which it quite agrees 
in general habit and also very near the Mascaren P. obtusifolia , Lam. 
111. tab. 161, fig. 4. From JP. Pervillei it differs by its oblong leaves, 
3-4 in. long by 2 in. broad, shorter petioles, more congested corymbs, 
