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Seeds faintly ridged on the dorsal surface, the ventral

surface with a shallow groove

Erect shrubs, usually small:

Flowers 4-merous :

Leaves with a strong pale intra-marginal nerve

Flowers 5-merous :

Flowers shortly pedicellate, in dense globular cymules at
the ends of the long-peduncled branches of a terminal
umbellate cyme; leaves deciduously puberulous, with
9 to 13 pairs of main-nerves; fruit 3 in. long; seeds
4-ridged on the dorsal surface, slightly concave on the
ventral
Flowers sub-sessile, in short condensed dichotomous sessile
axillary cymes; leaves with scurfy pubescence and 8 to 11
pairs of main-nerves; seeds 5-ridged on the dorsal and
broadly grooved on the ventral surface

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Flowers in a terminal umbellately branching cyme:— Seeds with a single dorsal ridge, the ventral surface plane:

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11. P. polycarpa.

12. P. calocarpa.

13. P. multicapitulata.

14. P. tortilis.

15. P. Griffithii.

16. P. angulata. 17. P. Helferiana.

18. P. montana.

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Leaves elliptic, the upper surface glabrous except
the midrib, 5 to 7 in. long; fruit 45 in. long 21. P. fulva.
Seeds 5-ridged on the dorsal surface and 2-grooved on

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the ventral; leaves glabrous on the upper surface,
their margins crenulate

Seeds with 5 ridges on the dorsal surface and 1 ridge

22. P. fulvoidea.

on the ventral; leaves glabrous, usually oblanceolate 23. P. stipulacea.
Seeds 4-ridged on the dorsal surface, plane on the

ventral:

Leaves elliptic, tapering equally to each end, 9- to

10-nerved; calyx-lobes very long caudate-acuminate 24. P. Curtisii.
Leaves obovate-oblong or obovate-oblanceolate, 10- to
14-nerved; calyx-lobes short, broad, blunt

25. P. rhinocerotis.

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1. PSYCHOTRIA LAXIFLORA, Blume Bijdr. 964. Scandent or epiphytic, glabrous except the inflorescence; young branches slightly thickerthan a crow-quill, terete, dark-coloured, brown, shining. Leaves membranous, narrowly elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate, much acuminate, the base cuneate; both surfaces olivaceous-brown when dry, the lower the paler, midrib distinct; main-nerves 4 to 6 pairs, faint, curved, ascending; length 2 to 4 in.; breadth 5 to 1 in.; petiole 15 to 2 in. long. Stipules forming a tube from 15 to 3 in. long, sharply toothed. Panicles solitary, terminal, lax, more than half as long as the leaves, on naked peduncles about 1 in. long; branches cymose, with small acute bracteoles at their bases, puberulous. Flowers 15 to 2 in. long,. puberulous, in cymules of three at the ends of the branchlets; their pedicels short, with broad acute caducous bracteoles at their bases. Calyx shortly funnel-shaped, the mouth sub-truncate or obscurely 4 toothed. Corolla longer than the calyx, broadly clavate in bud,. funnel-shaped; the mouth with 4 broad obtuse lobes, throat sericeous. Anthers 4, elliptic, blunt, sub-sessile. Fruit clavate-ellipsoid, with 8 vertical ridges (2 of them double), glabrous; seeds with 4 bold ridges. on the dorsal surface; the ventral surface quite flat. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 187.

SINGAPORE: Ridley 13, 4828. JOHORE: Ridley. PERAK: King's Collector 4117, 8428; Wray 110.-DISTRIB. Sumatra, Forbes 1297, 1309, 1710, 2466; Java, Koorders 23550B.

2. PSYCHOTRIA MORINDÆFLORA, Wall. Cat. 8438 A.B.C. in part. A woody climber, 15 to 20 feet long, glabrous except the puberulous inflorescence; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, dark brown when dry, terete, somewhat thickened at the nodes, the internodes. minutely lenticellate and faintly striate. Leaves coriaceous, ovate to elliptic, sometimes oblong-lanceolate, shortly and rather bluntly acuminate, the base slightly cuneate or rarely rounded; upper surface olivaceous-greenish when dry, the lower purplish-brown; the midrib channelled on the upper surface, prominent on the lower; main-nerves 6 to 8 pairs, rather straight, spreading, thin but rather distinct on both surfaces when dry; length 3 to 4.5 in.; breadth 1.75 to 2.5 in.; petiole

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-2 to 5 in. Stipules caducous, leaving a pale narrow scar between the petioles. Cymes terminal, about 2 in., rarely 3 in. long; the branches compressed and angled, scurfy-puberulous, two of them springing from the base, the other three umbellate at the apex of the main axis, each bearing at its apex a dense, many-flowered, minutely bracteolate capitulum less than 5 in. in diam. Flowers 2 in. long, sessile. Calyx cupular, the mouth with 5 small blunt teeth. Corolla twice as long as the calyx; the mouth with 5 deep oblong blunt lobes; throat densely sericeous. Anthers 5, short, elliptic, basifixed on stout filaments. Style cylindric, thickened upwards; stigma of 2 broad lobes. Fruit short, compressed ovoid-elliptic, with 8 vertical ridges (2 of them double) crowned by the small calyx, 25 in. long and ∙15 in. in diam. from front to back; seeds with 4 dorsal ridges; ventral surface plane. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 166. Psychotria? Wall. Cat. 8355.

PERAK: King's Collector 2585, 2665; Scortechini 1826; Wray 4001. PENANG: Wallich; Curtis 478.

3. PSYCHOTRIA MAINGAYI, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 166. A slender woody climber; young branches half as thick as a goose-quill, pubescent, ultimately pale and glabrous. Leaves thickly membranous, narrowly elliptic, caudate-acuminate, the base much narrowed; both surfaces glabrous, when dry pale olivaceous, the upper rather the darker; main-nerves about 6 pairs, indistinct on both surfaces like the midrib; length 2 to 3.25 in.; breadth 65 to 1-2 in.; petiole 1 to 2 in., slender. Stipules cartilaginous, persistent, connate into a tube 15 in. long with a few hairs at the truncate and toothed or acute apex. Cymes axillary, on slender, compressed, coarsely pubescent peduncles shorter than the leaves, few-branched. Flowers sessile, bracteoles linear. Calyx much longer than the pubescent ovary, widely campanulate; the lobes ovate-triangular, caudate-acuminate, spreading. Corolla unknown. Fruit broadly ellipsoid, with 8 deep vertical grooves, pale, nearly glabrous when ripe, 2 in. long.

SINGAPORE: Maingay (K.D.) 926; Ridley 6924.

4. PSYCHOTRIA SARMENTOSA, Blume Bijdr. 964. Scandent; woody; young stems thinner than a goose-quill, pale, glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic-oblanceolate to elliptic, acute or shortly and abruptly acuminate, much narrowed at the base, edges slightly recurved; both surfaces pale brown tinged with olivaceous when dry, minutely reticulate; the upper glabrous, the lower sometimes pubescent only on the stout midrib; main-nerves 7 to 10 pairs, curving slightly upwards, faint; length 25 to 4 in.; breadth 1 to 1.75 in.; petioles 4 to 75 in., winged above. Stipules broad at the base, the apex caudate-acuminate.

Cymes terminal, puberulous, shorter than the leaves, on short peduncles, cymosely branched; the branches angled, spreading, many-flowered; bracteoles minute, linear. Flowers about 15 in. long, puberulous outside, on short pedicels. Calyx campanulate, with 5 short triangular teeth. Corolla villous at the base in the interior. Fruit ellipsoid,. •25 in. long, with 10 vertical ridges (2 of them double). Seeds with 4 dorsal ridges, the ventral surface plane. DC. Prod. IV. 522; Wight. Ic. 1038; Thwaites Enum. Pl. Ceyl. 148; Kurz For. Fl. Burm. II. 14; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 165. P. obovata, Wall. Cat. 8380. Grumilea Junghuhniana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 296. Psychotria sp., Wall. Cat. 8382, 8352 ?, 8384.

SINGAPORE: Ridley 2874, 2875, 9112. MALACCA: Griffith (K.D.) 3043. PERAK: King's Collector 4967, 7572. PENANG King 1346; Curtis 951, 2781.-DISTRIB. Burma, Wallich; Helfer (K.D.) 3041, &c.; Indian Peninsula; Ceylon; Malay Archipelago; Andaman Islands. VAR. pachyphylla, King & Gamble. Leaves thickly coriaceous,. shining, greenish when dry, 3 to 4 in. long; fruit 25 in. long, subglobular.

PENANG Ridley 9363; Curtis 2215.

5. PSYCHOTRIA KUNSTLERI, n. sp., King & Gamble. A glabrous epiphyte with slightly angled stems thinner than a goose-quill, pale yellowish when dry. Leaves succulent, glossy and bluish-green when fresh, but yellow on both surfaces and dull when dry, narrowly ellipticoblong, rarely oblong-oblanceolate, gradually and equally tapering to each end; the midrib bold, channelled on the upper surface; mainnerves 4 to 6 pairs, spreading, very indistinct; length 3 to 5.5 in.; breadth 8 to 1.4 in.; petioles 4 to 8 in. long. Stipules forming a cartilaginous persistent cup with an entire mouth, about 1 in. long. Cyme solitary, umbellate, terminal, longer than the leaves (the naked peduncle. of 2 to 3 in. being included), lax, from 2 to 4 in. broad; branches spreading, dividing near their apices into umbellate cymes; bracteoles few, linear, acute. Flowers not seen on basally bracteolate pedicels. as long as themselves. Fruit 35 in. long, ellipsoid, deeply 10-grooved, crowned by the rather large remains of the 5-toothed calyx, 10-ridged. Seeds dorsally 4-ridged, the ventral surface flat.

PERAK: Scortechini; King's Collector 1886, 4953, 6588; Wray 2230.-DISTRIB. Sumatra, Forbes 2823.

6. PSYCHOTRIA PENANGENSIS, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 175. A shrubby epiphyte or climber, 8 to 12 feet long, all parts except the inflorescence glabrous; young branches slightly compressed, thinner than a goose-quill, dark-coloured. Leaves thinly coriaceous, broadly elliptic-obovate or sub-ovate, shortly and abruptly triangular, acumi

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nate, much narrowed at the base into the broad petiole; both surfaces brown when dry, the upper slightly olivaceous; the midrib broad, channelled on the upper surface, main-nerves 5 to 10 pairs, spreading, thin, distinct on the lower surface; length 3 to 4.5 in.; breadth 1.5 to 2.5 in.; petiole 5 to 1.5 in. long, slightly winged above. Stipules broadly ovate, sub-acute or blunt, sub-tubular, sometimes bifid, 2 to 4 in. long. Cymes umbellate, solitary or terminal, pedunculate, as long as or longer than the leaves (including the compressed naked 1 to 2 in. long peduncle); primary branches long, spreading; the ultimate umbels with broad-based subulate unequal bracteoles. Flowers 2 to 25 in. long, sessile or on short pedicels; bracts 25 in. long. Calyx-tube obconic, its teeth triangular. Corolla longer than the calyx, shortly and widely tubular, deeply divided into 5 broad lobes thickened near the apex, the apex itself sharp and inflexed, glabrous inside except for the ring of hair in the throat at the insertion of the short filaments. Anthers elliptic, blunt, entire. Fruit ellipsoid, compressed, with 10 obtuse vertical ridges (2 of them double), glabrescent, crowned by the rather large calyx; length 4 in.; breadth 25 in. Seeds 2, plano-convex, the dorsal surface with 4 blunt ridges, the ventral surface plane.

MALACCA Maingay (K.D.) 920. SINGAPORE: Ridley 2870. PERAK: Scortechini 2034; King's Collector 3049, 4591, 10723. SELANGOR : Ridley 7425. PANGKORE: Curtis 1621.

7. PSYCHOTRIA SCORTECHINII, n. sp., King & Gamble. A climber, all parts glabrous; young branches pale brown, thicker than a crowquill, terete, smooth. Leaves membranous, ovate-lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, acuminate, the base narrowed or rarely rounded; both surfaces brown when dry (the lower slightly paler), the midrib prominent; mainnerves 5 or 6 pairs, curved, spreading, not prominent; length 2.5 to 4 in.; breadth 1 to 1.5 in.; petiole 15 to 2 in. Stipules oblong, acute, connate at their bases, 15 to 2 in. long, caducous. Cymes paniculate, solitary, terminal, rarely axillary, spreading, lax, cymosely branched, in flower as long as or nearly as long as the leaves, in fruit longer, the branches bracteolate, angled, divaricating. Flowers on the ultimate branchlets in threes, 15 in. long, on short pedicels, each with a bracteole at the base. Calyx cupular, with 5 short acute teeth. Corolla longer than the calyx, cylindric, with short triangular lobes, the throat with tufts of yellowish hairs between the 5 stamens. Anthers on short filaments. Style cylindric, stigma 2-lobed. Fruit narrowly ellipsoid, tapering to each end, sometimes clavate, slightly compressed, 8-ridged (2 being double), crowned by the calyx, 35 in. long and 2 in. in diam. Seeds with 3 broad dorsal ridges, ventral surface plane.

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