19. PSYCHOTRIA VIRIDIFLORA, Reinw. ex Blume Bijdr. 965. A small tree or a bush, all parts, except the inflorescence, glabrous; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, dark brown. Leaves membranous, oblong-elliptic to oblanceolate-elliptic, shortly and stoutly acuminate, the base much narrowed; both surfaces brown when dry; main-nerves 8 to 14 pairs, curved, spreading, rather faint on both surfaces; length 3.5 to 8 in.; breadth 1.25 to 2.5 in.; petiole 4 to 75 in. occasionally as much as 1.25 in. long. Stipules broadly oblong, narrowed to the apex, but not acute, 3 to 5 in. long, deciduous. Cymes on naked peduncles (3 to 1.5 in. long) in broad panicles 1 to 2 in. long and as much wide (more when in fruit); branches divaricating, puberulous, with small broad bracteoles. Flowers in small cymes, on the ultimate branches, 1 in. long, on short pedicels, glabrous outside. Calyx cupular with irregular, short, sharp teeth. Corolla longer than the calyx, widely tubular, with 5 broad sub-acute lobes; the throat sericeous. Anthers 5, oblong, blunt, attached by short filaments in the throat. Fruit elliptic, with a wide shallow areola on the apex, the sides with 10 bold vertical ridges (2 of them double), glabrous, about 25 in. long and 2 in. in diam. Seeds plano-convex, the convexity deeply 5-grooved, the ventral surface flat. P. sulcata, Wall. Cat. 8370; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 168. P. Jackii, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 167.

MALACCA: Griffith (K.D.) 3021; Goodenough 1878; Derry 457, 1224; Ridley 1600. PANGKORE: Curtis 1369. TRANG: Wray 2778. NEGRI SEMBILAN: Ridley 1930. SELANGOR Ridley 7434. PERAK: Scortechini; Ridley 2919, 3067; Wray 290, 2027, 2778, 2956; King's Collector 2655, 4275, 4374, 5964, 6327, 7224. PENANG: Wallich 8343, 8370.-DISTRIB. Burma, Helfer & Griffith (K.D.) 3040; Sumatra, Forbes; Java, Blume; Borneo, Beccari; Motley; Haviland.

20. PSYCHOTRIA BIRCHIANA, n. sp., King & Gamble. Herbaceous; woody at the base; all parts softly rusty-pubescent; stems 6 to 18 in. high, thinner than a goose-quill, their pubescence crisped, dense, coarse, and entirely or partly deciduous. Leaves thickly membranous, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, sometimes sub-obovate, acute, the base rounded or minutely cordate or sometimes cuneate; both surfaces brown when dry, the lower sometimes paler and with fewer hairs; the midrib prominent and very hairy on both sides, the 10 to 12 pairs of rather faint little-curved spreading main-nerves less hairy than the midrib; length 3.5 to 5 in.; breadth 1.5 to 2.25 in.; petiole 5 to 1 in., covered with coarse tomentum mixed with ovate-acuminate scales. Stipules oblong-ovate, acuminate, 5 to 75 in. long. Cymes pedunculate, solitary, terminal, spreading, 1.5 to 2 in. across, and about as long, the branches spreading, bracteate at the divisions, the bracts lanceolate,

acute, reflexed, 2 or 3 in. long; the peduncle 1.5 to 2.5 in. long, scaly, tomentose; ultimate branches short, bearing at their apices dense capitules of small sub-sessile flowers, mixed with short broad bracteoles. Flowers about 1 in. long. Calyx cupular-campanulate, pubescent; the mouth wide and with 5 blunt, triangular, spreading lobes. Corolla exceeding the calyx, widely tubular, with 5 or 6 short inflexed teeth, glabrous inside, hairy outside. Anthers oblong, blunt at each end, the filaments short. Fruit ellipsoid, tapering equally to each end, boldly 10-ridged, somewhat compressed, crowned by the hairy calyxlobes, otherwise sub-glabrous, 25 to 3 in. long and 2 in. across. Seeds with 5 dorsal ridges, the ventral surface plane.

PERAK, on Birch's Hill, elev. 4,000 feet: Scortechini 258; Wray 1; King's Collector 2134, 2950, 7348. SELANGOR: Ridley 7432.

The flowers are described as white, and the ripe fruit as cherry red. Named in honour of Mr. Birch, a British civil officer, who was murdered by the aborigines in Perak.

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21. PSYCHOTRIA FULVA, Buch.-Ham. ex. Wall. Cat. 8366, excl. B. A shrub; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, dark brown when dry, bearing a few scattered coarse hairs. Leaves thickly membranous, elliptic, shortly acuminate and tapering almost equally to the base; upper surface without hairs except a few on the midrib near the base, under surface with dark cinereous pubescence on the midrib and 15 to 18 pairs of sub-horizontal slightly curved main-nerves; length 5 to 7 in., breadth 1.75 to 35 in.; petioles 1.25 to 24 in., coarsely and deciduously pubescent. Stipules membranous, broadly oblong, the apex deeply and acuminately bifid, the edges coarsely ciliate; length about 1 in. Cymes pedunculate, axillary, trichotomous, the flowers in condensed capitular cymes at the ends of the short branches, enveloped when in bud in 2 or 3 large deciduous bracts; in fruit about 2 in. across and less in length; peduncles about 2 in. long; branches about 5 in. long, horizontal; all, like the short flower pedicels, coarsely rusty-pubescent. Calyx cupular, with 5 deep, spreading, narrow, acuminate lobes. Corolla not seen. Fruit narrowly elliptic, somewhat compressed, tapering slightly to each end, the apex crowned by the erect connivent calyxlobes, boldly but somewhat unequally 12-ridged, glabrous, 45 in. long and 25 in. in diam. Seeds 5-ridged on the dorsal, the ventral surface flat. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 169, excl. syn. P. monticola, Kurz. Psychotria, Wall. Cat. 8337; Griff. Notulæ, IV. 268; Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 479, f. 2.

PERAK, On Ulu Batung Padang: Wray 1615.--DISTRIB. E. Bengal, Griffith (K.D.) 3022, 3034, 3035, 3036; Khasia, Hook f. & Thoms. 14.

P. monticola, Kurz, a Burmese plant, has been reduced to P. fulva, Buch.-Ham., but in my opinion it is quite distinct.

22. PSYCHOTRIA FULVOIDEA, n. sp., King & Gamble. A small shrub; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, dark-coloured, glabrous. Leaves membranous, narrowly elliptic, acuminate, crenulate, the base cuneate; upper surface glabrous, dark brown when dry, the lower reddish-brown; the midrib, nerves and reticulations rustypubescent, otherwise glabrous; midrib prominent on both surfaces, the 10 to 14 pairs of spreading, curving main-nerves slightly prominent on the lower; length 6 to 7 in.; breadth 2 to 2.5 in.; petiole 1 to 1.3 in. Stipules membranous, ovate, caudate-acuminate, the edges irregularly serrate, ciliate, length about 1 in. Cymes axillary, trichotomous, condensed, about 2 in. broad when in fruit and 1.25 in. long, on deflexed, coarsely but shortly pubescent peduncles 3 in. long; their branches short, spreading, bracteate at the divisions and coarsely pubescent. Flowers condensed into globose capitulate cymes at the apices of the branches, sessile. Calyx narrowly campanulate, pubescent, with 5 erect acute teeth. Corolla unknown. Fruit narrowly elliptic, tapering to each end, the apex crowned by the short pubescent lobes, with 12 deep ridges and grooves, glabrous, 4 in. long and 2 in. in diam. Seed dorsally 5-ridged, ventrally 2-grooved.

PERAK: Scortechini 538.

This approaches P. fulva, but is a smaller plant, with crenulate leaves quite glabrous on the upper surface and nearly so on the lower.

23. PSYCHOTRIA STIPULACEA, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 164. A shrub, 1 to 2 feet high, all parts except the inflorescence glabrous; stems as thick as a goose-quill, brown when dry. Leaves membranous, broadly oblanceolate to elliptic, or oblong, abruptly and shortly acuminate, much narrowed to the base; both surfaces glabrous, when dry brown with a reddish tinge; midrib very stout, mainnerves 11 to 13 pairs, spreading, slightly curved, distinct on both surfaces; length 5 to 9 in.; breadth 2 to 4 in.; petioles 5 to 1.25 in. long, winged near the apex. Stipules large, sub-persistent, ovate, sometimes bifid, 75 to 1 in. long, and about 4 in. broad. Cyme usually solitary, corymbose, trichotomous, terminal, on a short peduncle, bracteate at the base, about 2 to 3 in. in diam.; its branches puberulous, bracts and bracteoles triangular. Flowers 15 in. long, on short pedicels, clustered in dense, cymose, capituliform cymes at the ends of the ultimate branches. Calyx campanulate, with 5 broad pubescent lobes, the tube glabrous. Corolla longer than the calyx, widely campanulate, 4- or 5-toothed. Fruit ellipsoid, sub-compressed, 10-ridged, crowned by the small calyx, 3 in. long, and 15 in. in diam. Seed dorsally 5-ridged, ventrally concave, with one central ridge. Wall. Cat. 8329; DC. Prod. IV. 519; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 167.

PENANG: Wallich 8329; Curtis 732. TRANG: Kunstler 1382. PAHANG Ridley 2216. PERAK Ridley 2918; King's Collector, 1357, 1382; Wray 3440; Scortechini 278, 307, 558, 692.-DISTRIB. Sumatra.

24. PSYCHOTRIA CURTISII, n. sp., King & Gamble. A shrub, 6 feet high; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, rusty-pubescent. Leaves elliptic, sometimes somewhat obovate, tapering equally to each end, shortly acuminate, the base cuneate; both surfaces olivaceous-brown when dry, the upper glabrous or with a few hairs on the midrib near the base, the lower rusty-puberulous between the 9 or 10 pairs of bold, shortly and densely rusty-pubescent curved ascending main-nerves; length 5 to 8 in.; breadth 1.5 to 3 in.; petioles 5 in., densely rusty-pubescent. Stipules caducous. Cyme solitary, terminal, 3-branched, on a pubescent peduncle from 3 to 5 in. long (much longer in fruit), branches bearing 3 to 5 sessile flowers in capitula at their apices; bracteoles linear. Flowers 25 in. long, rusty-pubescent. Calyx half-superior, campanulate, the mouth with 5 long, spreading, ovate-acuminate lobes. Corolla longer than the calyx, salver-shaped, with 5 oblong lobes. Fruit ovoid, tapering to the apex, crowned by the long lobes of the calyx, the sides puberulous, 10-ridged. Seeds with 4 ridges on the dorsal surface, the ventral plane.

PENANG Curtis 2695.

25. PSYCHOTRIA RHINOCEROTIS, Reinw. ex Blume Bijdr. 961. A shrub; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, at first rusty-tomentose, afterwards glabrescent and pale brown. Leaves coriaceous, obovate-oblong or obovate-oblanceolate, the apex broad, but usually with a small abrupt apiculus, the base cuneate; upper surface olivaceous, glabrous, the lower brown and softly and finely rusty-pubescent; the midrib broad, more prominent on the upper than on the lower surface; main-nerves 10 to 14 pairs, slightly curved, oblique, distinct on both surfaces; length 3 to 5 in.; breadth 1·35 to 2.5 in.; petiole 2 to 6 in., stout. Panicle solitary, terminal, 1.5 in. long and slightly wider; branches few, lax, divaricate, cymosely few-flowered. Fruit ellipticovoid, slightly compressed, with 10 vertical grooves (2 of them double), crowned by the rather broad, bluntly 5-toothed calyx, acutely 10-ridged (2 ridges double), pubescent between the ridges; length 25 in.; breadth 2 in. Seeds dorsally 4-ridged, ventral surface plane. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 292; DC. Prod. IV. 521; Korth. Kruidk. p. 242.

PERAK King's Collector 8272; Scortechini.

26. PSYCHOTRIA MALAYANA, Jack in Mal. Misc. I. 3; reprinted in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. IV. (1843), p. 26. A shrub; young branches

rather thinner than a goose-quill, sub-terete, glabrous, rather pale brown when dry. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic or broadly elliptic-lanceolate, shortly and abruptly acuminate, much narrowed to the base; upper surfaces glabrous, brown, shining when dry, the lower dull and sparsely pubescent, often tinged reddish, the edges slightly recurved; main-nerves 12 to 18 pairs, ascending, little curved, bold on the lower surface and faint on the upper; length 5 to 10 in.; breadth 2.5 to 4.5 in.; petioles 4 to 15 in. Stipules broadly ovate, blunt, about 35 in. long. Cyme terminal, on an angled, sub-compressed peduncle 5 to 1 in. long (lengthening in fruit), the branches corymbose, whorled, many-flowered; ultimate cymules 3-flowered. Flowers 5 in. long, 2 on each cymule, on short pedicels (the middle one sessile), minutely bracteolate at the base. Calyx under 1 in. long, tubular, the truncate mouth minutely 5-toothed. Corolla tubular, 4 in. long, with 5 oblong sub-acute lobes; the throat villous inside. Fruit 4 in. long and 3 in. in diam., elliptic-ovoid, vertically 10-ridged, the apex with very slight remains of the calyx. Seeds faintly 4-ridged on the dorsal, the ventral surface plane with a faint central groove. DC. Prod. IV. 520. P. aurantiaca, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey & Wall., II. 165; Blume Bijdr. 962; Wall. Cat. 8335. Grumelia aurantiaca and Chasalia expansa, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 296 and 281.

SINGAPORE: Ridley 6468, 8422; Hullett 904. PAHANG: Ridley 2197. PERAK: King's Collector 6327, 7168; Wray 2956; Scortechini 307.-DISTRIB. Borneo, Java.

The corolla of this is larger than that of any other Malayan species of Psychotria, being about 4 in. long when dry.

SPECIES IMPERFECTLY KNOWN.

27. PSYCHOTRIA WRAYI, n. sp., King & Gamble. A small shrub, glabrous except the inflorescence; young branches as thick as a swan'squill, terete, dark-coloured when dry. Leaves coriaceous, oblanceolateelliptic, shortly acuminate, gradually narrowed from about the middle to the short, partially winged petiole; both surfaces dark olivaceousbrown when dry, the midrib rather prominent; main-nerves 13 to 15 pairs, oblique, almost straight, thin but pale and rather distinct on the lower surface, indistinct on the upper; length 6 or 7 in.; breadth 2 to 2-5 in.; petiole about 5 in., winged above. Stipules broadly ovate, sub-acute, the edges coarsely ciliate, 5 in. long. Cymes terminal, on short peduncles, bracteate at the base, umbelliform, widely spreading, about 4 in. broad and only half as long; the branches 4-angled, subcompressed, pubescent, divergent. Flowers crowded at the extremities of the branchlets, 25 in. long, on short thick pedicels. Calyx deeply