shallow groove. P. obovata, Wall. Cat. 8380A. Grumilea polycarpa, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 295.

SINGAPORE: Ridley 2029.

MALACCA: Griffith (K.D.) 3042; Maingay (K.D.) 924; Hullett 402. JOHORE: Ridley 4090, 11160. PENANG: Curtis 1095. PERAK: Wray and King's Collector many numbers. DISTRIB.-Java, King; Forbes 1061; Koorders 28043B.

12. PSYCHOTRIA CALOCARPA, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., 1872, II. 315. A glabrous shrub 2 to 4 feet high; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, dark-coloured when dry. Leaves thickly membranous, oblong-oblanceolate or oblanceolate, shortly caudate-acuminate at the apex, much attenuate at the base, the edges sometimes broadly crenate; both surfaces olivaceous when dry, the midrib and nerves broad, distinct and pale; main-nerves 10 to 12 pairs, slightly curved, spreading and interarching to form a bold pale intramarginal nerve 1 to 15 in. from the edge; length 5 to 8 in.; breadth 1.65 to 2.5 in.; petiole 75 to 1.25 in., slightly winged near the apex. Stipules broadly triangular, acuminate, membranous, sometimes bifid, 2 in. long. Cymes terminal or axillary, sessile or shortly pedunculate, shorter than the petioles, about 1.25 in. across and 5 in. long, branched from near the base, the branches compressed, trichotomous; the bracteoles lanceolate, acuminate. Flowers 2 in. long, on short pedicels. Calyx with a short cylindric tube and 4 longer oblong blunt sub-erect concave lobes. Corolla exceeding the calyx, narrowly campanulate, bluntly 4-lobed,. the throat densely sericeous, otherwise glabrous. Fruit sub-globose or ovoid, sub-compressed; the epicarp fleshy, glabrous, rugulose when dry; 3 in. in breadth and rather less in length, the persistent calyxlobes small. Seeds large, the dorsal surface faintly 1-ridged, the ventral deeply grooved. Kurz For. Fl. Burm. II. 9; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 173. P. asiatica, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 160; Wall. Cat. 8331: not of Linn. nor of Roxb. P. viridiflora, Reinw. var. undulata, Kurz For. Fl. Burm. II. 13. P. picta, Wall. Cat. 8353; and Psychotria, 1.c. 8359.

PERAK: Ridley 7199; Wray 2200; King's Collector 1930, 2348, 6798, 10772; Scortechini. MALACCA: Hervey.-DISTRIB. Himalaya, Assam, Burma.

This plant is very common in the lower Himalaya, Assam, and Burma. In the Flora of British India it is described as herbaceous, but the Malayan specimens are all woody. The leaves are always readily distinguished, when dry, by the pale broad mainnerves and by the very conspicuous intra-marginal nerve. In Malaya the plant is glabrous, but in the Indian specimens the under surfaces of the leaves are deciduously puberulous.

13. PSYCHOTRIA MULTICAPITATA, n. sp. King & Gamble. An erect

much-branched shrub 3 to 7 feet high; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, slightly compressed, swollen at the nodes, pale, deciduously puberulous. Leaves thinly membranous, greenish when dry, broadly obovate-lanceolate, oblong or elliptic, abruptly and shortly caudateacuminate, the base narrowed to the rather short petiole; upper surface quite glabrous; the lower scurfy-puberulous on the broad midrib and 9 to 13 pairs of curved spreading main-nerves; length 5 to 10 in.; breadth 2.5 to 4 in.; petiole 75 to 1·15 in. Stipules free, broadly triangular, ·15 in. long. Cymes terminal, solitary, peduncled, about 2 in. long (including the peduncle) and the same in breadth, umbellately branched from near the base; the ultimate branches numerous, bearing terminal many-flowered globular minutely bracteolate cymules, about 5 in. in diam., the common peduncle about an inch or more long, the branches shorter, all puberulous. Flowers on short puberulous pedicels, ovoid in bud, about 15 in. long when expanded. Calyx cupular, with 5 or 6 triangular acute sub-erect teeth. Corolla longer than the calyx, the tube cylindric and, like the throat, densely white-sericeous inside; lobes of the limb short, triangular, deflexed. Anthers bifid at the base. Style thick, bifid, longer than the corolla. Fruit ellipsoid-obovoid, 10-ridged, crowned by the small calyx, glabrous, 3 in. long. Seed dorsally with 4 faint ridges, ventrally somewhat concave.

PERAK Scortechini 214, 291; King's Collector 436, 867, 2862, 5402, 7380, 7513, 10559.

14. PSCHYOTRIA TORTILIS, Blume Bijdr. 958. Stem woody below, erect, 6 to 18 in. high, not branched, cinereous, 4-angled, sparsely covered with short coarse scurfy hairs. Leaves membranous, broadly elliptic or ovate-elliptic, the apex acute or sub-acute, narrowed from below the middle to the petiole; upper surface when dry dark green, the lower pale, glaucous, minutely lepidote; the 8 to 11 pairs of slightly curved spreading main-nerves covered with minute short coarse deciduous dark-coloured hairs; length 4 to 6 in.; breadth 1-75 to 3 in.; petioles 5 to 2 in., compressed, scurfy-pubescent. Stipules broadly triangular, much acuminate, bifid, 15 to 3 in. long. Cymes solitary, sessile, axillary, dichotomous, many-flowered, condensed, 5 in. to 1 in. long and as much broad. Flowers 15 in. long, on short ebracteolate pedicels. Calyx campanulate, with 5 triangular spreading teeth, covered with coarse hair. Corolla longer than the calyx, narrowly campanulate, with 5 ovate acute lobes, hairy like the calyx. Anthers 5, sessile, oblong, blunt, included. Style shorter than the calyx; stigmas short, linear, divergent. Fruit crowned by the small calyx-lobes, reniform, pale with numerous short vertical brown streaks, and stiff short white hairs, 1 in. broad and less in length; the dorsal surface of each of the two

cartilaginous cocci with 3 bold ridges. Seeds bluntly 5-ridged on the dorsal, broadly grooved on the ventral surface. DC. Prod. IV. 520; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 169. P. microcarpa, Wall. Cat. 8344. Streblosa tortilis, Korth. Kruidk. Arch. II. 246.

PENANG: Wallich 8344; Curtis 405, 1269. SINGAPORE: Lobb. PERAK: King's Collector 710, 2627; Scortechini.-DISTRIB. Sumatra, Forbes 1495.

15. PSYCHOTRIA GRIFFITHII, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 171. A shrub; glabrous except the puberulous inflorescence; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, terete, of a dark colour when dry. Leaves coriaceous, oblong or elliptic, shortly and somewhat abruptly acuminate, the base cuneate, the edges slightly recurved and pale, both surfaces drying olivaceous-green, shining, the midrib and the 12 to 15 pairs of curved spreading main-nerves distinct; length 6 to 10 in.; breadth 1.75 to 3.5 in.; petiole 4 to 8 in., slightly winged above, stout. Stipules broadly triangular, sub-acute, 2 to 3 in. long. Cymes terminal, solitary, pyramidal, about 15 in. long and the same in breadth, on naked compressed peduncles 1.5 in. or more long (lengthening to 2 in. or more in fruit); branches short, stout, puberulous, ebracteolate; the ultimate ones bearing the shortly pedicelled flowers in cymules of three. Flowers 2 in. long. Calyx campanulate, with 5 broadly triangular acute sub-erect teeth. Corolla as long as the calyx, fleshy, tubular, with 5 broad oblong hooded lobes; the tube finely sericeous inside, otherwise glabrous. Anthers 5, broadly oblong, entire, dorsifixed; the filaments thin, compressed, broad. Style short, with 2 broad flat lobes. Fruit elliptic, slightly obovoid, the apex subtruncate, crowned by the remains of the disk and calyx, glabrous, black when dry, 4 in. long and 35 in. broad; with 4 broad vertical ridges, two of them grooved externally and consisting of two ridges united, the other two single; 2-celled, and 2-seeded. Seeds large, the dorsal surface with a single ridge, the ventral flat, not grooved, everywhere smooth.

MALACCA: Griffith (K.D.) 3044; Maingay (K.D.) 918; Hervey; Derry 367. PERAK: Ridley 2873. SINGAPORE: Ridley 2872, 2873, 6314, 6468, 6556; Hullett 848.

16. PSYCHOTRIA ANGULATA, Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. II. 243. A shrub 4 to 6 ft. high, glabrous except the inflorescence; young branches pale brown when dry, thinner than a goose-quill, terete. Leaves coriaceous, oblanceolate to oblanceolate-elliptic, the apex shortly and rather abruptly acuminate, the base much narrowed; both surfaces brown when dry, tinged with olivaceous; the upper very shining, the broad midrib and nerves depressed; the lower less shining, the midrib

very prominent, and the 8 to 10 pairs of spreading nerves thin but distinct; length 4 to 6 in.; breadth 1 to 1.75 in.; petiole 2 to 5 in., slightly winged near the apex. Stipules broadly triangular, acute, subacute or bifid, 25 in. long. Cyme solitary, terminal, pyramidal, about 1.5 in. long, on a naked peduncle 1-25 to 3 in. long; branches whorled, shortly bracteolate at their bases, spreading; the ultimate branchlets. crowded at their ends with numerous sessile flowers 25 in. long. Calyx pale, widely cupular, 05 in. long, with irregular small teeth. Corolla thick, tubular, its 5 broad lobes with acute inflexed apices; the throat densely sericeous. Anthers elliptic, blunt, on short filaments. Fruit ovoid or narrowly obovoid, pulpy, obscurely ridged, glabrous, crowned by the small calyx, 5 in. long and half as much broad (unripe), 2-celled. Seeds 2, plano-convex. Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. IV. 210; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 172. Psychotria, Wall. Cat. 8348. Chasalia perforata, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 546.

MALACCA: Griffith (K.D.) 3037. PROVINCE WELLESLEY: Ridley 7026. JOHORE: Ridley 11161. SINGAPORE: Ridley 2867. PAHANG: Ridley 1353. PENANG: Curtis 14, 726; King's Collector 1683. PERAK : King's Collector 4170.-DISTRIB. Burma.

17. PSYCHOTRIA HELFERIANA, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., 1872, II. 314. A shrub; the whole plant more or less rusty-pubescent; young branches as thick as a goose-quill or thicker, the pubescence dense and deciduous. Leaves thickly membranous, elliptic or oblongelliptic, rarely obovate-elliptic, the apex acuminate, the base usually cuneate but sometimes rounded; both surfaces dark brown when dry, the lower somewhat tinged with red and less hairy than the upper; the hairs on both adpressed and very numerous on the stout midrib, less so on the 9 to 16 pairs of spreading curved main-nerves; length 6 to 12 in.; breadth 2.5 to 4.5 in.; petioles 1 to 1.75 in. Stipules broadly ovate to oblong-lanceolate, often as much as 1 in. long, the apex acuminately bifid. Flowers 2 in. long, numerous, mixed with many unequal bracteoles mostly longer than themselves, all acuminate and some of them bifid and crowded in dense pedunculate capitula in a few-branched axillary cyme usually shorter than the leaf-petioles. Calyx-tube narrowly campanulate, with 5 lanceolate erect lobes nearly as long as itself, everywhere pilose. Corolla similar to the calyx, but smaller and less hairy. Stamens almost sessile; anthers broad, blunt. Fruit ovoid or ellipsoid, somewhat compressed and boldly 8-ridged, crowned by the lobes of the calyx, 3 in. long and 2 in. in diam. Kurz For. Fl. Burm. II. 11: Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 172.

SINGAPORE: Wallich 8368; Goodenough 184; Maingay (K.D.) 921. MALACCA: Maingay (K.D.) 921; Ridley 184; Lobb. JOHORE: Ridley

11159; King; Hullett 507. PERAK: King's Collector 4345, 4661. -DISTRIB. Burma.

VAR. diffusa, King & Gamble. Capitula in spreading pedunculate panicles several inches in diain.

PERAK: Scortechini 400. JOHORE: Ridley 3732. SINGAPORE: Hullett.

VAR. angustifolia, King & Gamble. Leaves elliptic-oblong or oblong, not more than 2 in. in width; capitulum solitary, sessile.

SINGAPORE: King.-DISTRIB. Andamans.

VAR. glabra, King & Gamble. Leaves glabrous.
PERAK: Wray 1963.

18. PSYCHOTRIA MONTANA, Blume Bijdr. 960. A stout glabrous shrub; young branches half as thick as a goose-quill, angled, brown when dry. Leaves thinly membranous, on rather long petioles, elliptic or ellipticoblong, acuminate, the base cuneate; both surfaces greenish or olivaceous-brown when dry, the lower the paler; main-nerves 7 to 8 pairs (rarely 10 pairs) curving upwards, pale and bold like the midrib on the lower surface, faint on the upper; length 5 to 8 in.; breadth 1·75 to 35 in.; petioles 4 to 1.25 in., winged near the apex. Stipules connate by their short broad bases, the apices caudate-acuminate, curved. Cymes terminal, paniculate, on angled peduncles 5 to 1.25 in. in length; branches spreading, angled, bearing numerous shortly pedicelled flowers in cymules of three. Flowers 25 in. long. Calyx cupular with 5 broad spreading triangular teeth. Corolla with subcampanulate tube having a broad band of hairs inside in the upper half; the lobes of the mouth 5, broad, acute, reflexed. Fruit ellipsoidovoid to ellipsoid, boldly 4-ridged, glabrous, 25 to 3 in. long. Seeds: the dorsal surface with a single ridge, the ventral deeply concave, grooved. DC. Prod. IV. 521; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 174. viridissima, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, II. 315; For. Fl. Burm. II. 13. Chasalia montana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 281. C. expansa, var. montana, Miq. MS. Psychotria, Wall. Cat. 8371, 8378, and Rubiacea, 8339. Coffea tabaccifolia, Wall. Cat. 8334.

PERAK: Scortechini; Ridley, 2922; King's Collector, 452, 2190; Wray 276.-DISTRIB. Sumatra, Forbes 1566, 1862, 2201, 2241, 2330. JAVA: Blume; Forbes 271, 759, &c. Burma; Assam; Sylhet (Griffith, K.D.) 3047.

VAR. brevipetiolata, King & Gamble. Leaves with petioles 2 to 4 in. long.

PERAK: Scortechini 277, 1513; Wray 1628, 2289; King's Collector 389, 922, 1954, 2190, 4707, 6111, 8596. SELANGOR: Ridley 10583. PAHANG Ridley 5831. MALACCA: on Mt. Ophir, Hullett 762