LXXIV. RUBIACEiE. 
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Vangneriaf\ 
•2 in. long. Flowers bright green in dense fascicled axillary cymes, 
*75 in. across; pedicels pubescent, -2 in. long. Calyx rotate, 4 lobes, 
long, narrow, spreading. Corolla pointed in bud, puberulous out¬ 
side, hairy inside, tube cylindric stout, lobes 5> triangular acuminate. 
Fruit sub-globose on slender pedicels 1 in. long, 4-celled, crowned 
by the 4 ovate sepals. Hah. Open sandy country in the north 
and in pastures. Kedah, Alor Sta. Perils, Kanga. Lankawi, 
Kwah (Curtis). 
53. MESOPTERA, Hook. fil. 
A tree. Leaves large coriaceous. Stipules large, coriaceous. 
Flowers minute in dense ebracteate cymes. Calyx-tube short, 
hemispheric, 5-toothed. Corolla-tube short, throat hairy, lobes 
short, acute, valvate. Stamens 5, insert on throat, filaments short, 
subulate; anthers oblong, apiculate. Ovary 2-celled; ovules 1 in 
each cell; style short, stout. Stigma capitate, io-lobed. Fruit 
small, 2-celled and didymous or i-celled, globose. Seeds cup¬ 
shaped. Species 1. 
(1) M. Maingayi Hook. fil. F.B.I. iii. 137; King, l.c. 63. 
Branches thick, rusty tomentose, as is under-side of leaves. 
Leaves elliptic or broadly ovate; nerves 5 to 7 pairs, depressed 
above, elevate beneath, as are reticulations, 7 to 9 in. long, 4*5 to 
5*5 in. wide; petioles *5 in. long, stout. Stipules very unequal, 
ribbed, 1 in. long. Cymes under -5 in. long in flower, 2-25 in. in 
fruit, much-branched, pubescent. Fruit -2 to -25 in. (when didym¬ 
ous) across. Hah. Very rare, only known from Maingay’s collection. 
Malacca (Maingay). 
54 . PSYCHOTRIA, Linn. 
Herbs, shrubs, climbers or small trees. Flowers small, green or 
white in terminal, rarely axillary, cymes or heads. Calyx-tube 
short. Corolla-tube short, throat sometimes hairy, lobes 5 (rarely 4) 
valvate. Stamens as many on mouth. Ovary 2-celled; ovules 
solitary, erect from base; style bifid. Fruit baccate, ovoid or 
oblong, when dry smooth or ridged, red or white or black. Seeds 2, 
plano-convex, inner face smooth or grooved, back rounded, ridged. 
Species 550, all tropics. {King, Jonrn. As. Soc. Beng. lxxiv. ii, 1.) 
(a) Climbers. 
Seeds faintly ridged; leaves coriaceous. 
Leaves obovate or ovate, 2 to 3 in. long . (1) P. obovata 
Leaves very coriaceous, elliptic-ovate, 3 to 4 in. 
long.(2) P. pachyphylla 
Leaves lanceolate, 1 in. long, crowded, epiphyte (3) P. condensa 
Seeds with 3 ridges. 
Flowers in cymose panicles . . • (4! P» Scorteehinii 
Flowers in compact heads, glabrous . . {5) P. Cantleyi 
Flowers in globular cymes on ends of branches 
of panicle . . . . (6) P. pilulifera 
Cymes dense, plant hairy . . . (7) P. ovoidea 
