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Psy choir ia.] 
with very numerous bracts intermixed with the small white flowers. 
Calyx-tube narrow, campanulate, lobes lanceolate nearly as long. 
Corolla small, white. Fruit oblong, bright orange, hairy, *3 in. 
long. Seed 4-ridged. Hab. Woods, only in the south. Singapore 
(Wallich); Chan Chu Kang; Garden Jungle. Johor, Pinerong; 
Simpai, Ulu Batu Pahat (Kelsall), Malacca, Mt. Ophir, Bukit 
Besar. Selangor, Semangkok Pass. 
var, diffusa. King and Gamble. Shrub 6 ft. tall. Leaves 
narrower, lanceolate-acuminate, 10 in. long or less. Heads in 
spreading peduncled cymes; peduncle short; branches i‘5 in- 
long. Flowers flesh colour. Hab. Mountain forests. Johor, 
Gunong Pulai (Hullett, Ridley, etc.). A very distinct-looking 
plant and possibly specifically distinct. Distrib. Burma, Andamans. 
(21) P. rhinocerotis Reinwdt. Bl. Bijdr. 961; King, l.c. 18 ; 
Valeton, Ic. Bogor. cclxxxviii. P. Curtisii King, l.c. 
Shrublet densely red hairy, 1-5 to 6 ft. tall, base creeping, 
unbranched. Leaves obovate or elliptic short apiculate, narrowed 
to petiole, herbaceous green, glabrous above, silvery beneath and 
soft pubescent; nerves 10 to 14 pairs; 3 to 5 in. long, 1-35 to 2-5 in. 
wide; petioles *2 to -6 in. long. Stipules lanceolate, fimbriate. 
Panicle solitary terminal, densely red-hairy ; branches slender, 
.5 to 1-5 in. long, spreading. Flowers white in small dense heads. 
Calyx tubular, teeth as long as corolla tube, lanceolate-acuminate 
hairy. Corolla pubescent outside, tube stout, lobes reflexed lanceo¬ 
late, tufts of hairs at stamens. Fruit elliptic, 10-ridged “ purple.” 
Seed 4- or 5-ridged. Hab. Perak (Scortechini); Waterloo (Curtis). 
Lankawi, Kwah (Curtis). Perlis near Kanga. Distrib. Java. 
(22) P. multicapitata King and Gamble, l.c. 10. 
Much-branched shrub 3 to 7 ft. tall. Leaves thin membranous, 
obovate-lanceolate or oblong caudate, base narrowed, glabrous 
above, scurfy puberulous on midrib and 9 to 13 pairs of nerves, 
5 to 10 in. long, 2*5 to 4 in. wide; petioles 7 to 1-15 in. long. 
Stipules free triangular, -15 in. long. Cymes 2 in. long (including 
peduncle) and as wide; branchlets numerous with numerous 
globular cymules *5 in. across, puberulous. Flowers pedicelled, 
■15 in. long. Calyx cupular, teeth lanceolate acute. Corolla 
longer, tube cylindric, white-silky inside. Fruit ellipsoid-obovoid, 
10-ridged, glabrous, -3 in. long. Seed 4-ridged, faintly. Hab. 
Perak (Scortechini, Kunstler). 
I have not seen this. 
(23) P. Birchiana King and Gamble, l.c. 15. 
Shrublet, unbranched, entirely soft-pubescent, 6 to 18 in. tall. 
Leaves thick membranous, elliptic-lanceolate acuminate, base 
round; nerves 10 to 12 pairs; 3*5 to 5 in. long, 1-5 to 2-25 in. wide; 
petioles -5 to 1 in. long. Stipules ovate acuminate, 75 in. long. 
Cymes dense, on short branches *5 in. long with lanceolate bracts 
