-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 12 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 2.5 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

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.

PERAK: Scortechini 311, 404, 426; King's Collector 897, 2566,

5373.

This closely resembles P. laxiflora, Bl., but has 5-merous flowers and longer, less clavate fruit.

8. PSYCHOTRIA PILULIFERA, n. sp., King & Gamble. A small tree or climber; all parts except the inflorescence glabrous; young branches about as thick as a crow-quill, terete, pale brown when dry. Leaves coriaceous, narrowly elliptic, much tapered to both ends; both surfaces olivaceous when dry, the lower slightly the paler; main-nerves 6 or 7 pairs, inconspicuous, the midrib bold beneath when dry; length 2.5 to 3.5 in.; breadth 75 to 1 in.; petiole 35 to 4 in. long, slender. Inflorescence a terminal, few-branched, puberulous panicle of condensed 8-10flowered globular cymes. Flowers and their short pedicels minutely tomentose. Calyx shortly campanulate, the mouth with 5 spreading triangular acute lobes. Corolla tubular; the lobes oblong, broad, with small inflexed apices. Anthers 5, attached to the throat by short filaments surrounded by coarse hair. Fruit sub-globose, with 10 bold vertical ridges (2 of them double), crowned by the small calyx, 2 long and 15 in. in diam. Seeds with 3 bold ridges on the dorsal surface; ventral surface plane.

PERAK, at elevations of 3,000 to 5,000 feet: Wray 287, 398, 434, 946, 3870.

9. PSYCHOTRIA OVOIDEA, Wall. Cat. 8383. A slender woody climber, 20 to 40 feet long; stems thinner than a goose-quill, densely rustypubescent. Leaves with recurved margins, coriaceous, ovate- or elliptic-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, the base cuneate or rounded, sometimes minutely cordate; upper surface olivaceous when dry, glabrous, the main-nerves depressed; the lower brown, pubescent on the stout midrib and 5 to 7 pairs of prominent curved ascending mainnerves, puberulous on the interspaces; length 1.5 to 2.5 in.; breadth 85 to 1.25 in.; petioles 15 to 25 in. long. Stipules connate, ovate-lanceolate, 25 in. long, caducous. Cymes 75 to 2 in. in diam., trichotomous, solitary, terminal, rusty-pubescent, on angled peduncles 5 to 1 in. long. Flowers about 15 in. long, on short pedicels, crowded in dense cymes. at the ends of the branches and mixed with linear bracteoles. Calyx campanulate, with 5 spreading acute teeth. Corolla twice as long as the calyx, salver-shaped, with 5 lobes, the tube villous inside. Fruit ovoid-globose, 15 in. long, the apex crowned by the calyx, the sides with 6 faint vertical ridges. Seeds faintly 3-ridged on the dorsal surface; the ventral surface broad, flat. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 166.

SINGAPORE: Wallich, Seeman 2348. MALACCA Maingay (K.D.) 923; Ridley 97, 8407.

10. PSYCHOTRIA RIDLEYI, n. sp., King & Gamble. A small shrub; all parts glabrous except the inflorescence; stems half as thick as a goose-quill, terete, greenish when dry. Leaves membranous, oblongto elliptic-oblanceolate, the apex abruptly and very shortly acuminate, the base much narrowed, both surfaces pale olivaceous when dry, the midrib rather prominent, the upper sometimes with scattered minute, adpressed white hairs; main-nerves 7 to 9 pairs, slightly curved, spreading, faint on both surfaces; length 3 to 5.5 in.; breadth 1.25 to 2.25 in.; petioles 4 to 8 in. long, winged near the apex. Stipules broadly ovate, subacute, 1 in. long. Cyme on a peduncle about 1 in. long (longer in fruit), corymbosely branched, the bracts at the forks linear-lanceolate. Flowers in cymules of three, everywhere canescent, on short pedicels bibracteolate at the base. Calyx campanulate with elongated tube; the mouth with 5 erect ovate-triangular lobes. Corolla longer than the calyx; the tube short, slightly villous at the base near the insertion of the broad sub-sessile anthers; the 5 lobes broadly ovate, acute. Fruit ovoid-ellipsoid, 12-ridged, crowned by the small calyx, 3 to 4 in. long. Seeds many-ridged on both dorsal and ventral surfaces.

SINGAPORE: Ridley 48, 10818. JOHORE: Ridley 6472. MALACCA: on Mt. Ophir, Hullett 811; Goodenough 1363.

11. PSYCHOTRIA POLYCARPA, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 165. A climber, glabrous except the inflorescence; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, terete, when dry dark-coloured. Leaves coriaceous, ovate- or obovate-lanceolate to obovate- or ovate-rotund, the apex in the narrower forms shortly and bluntly acuminate, in the broader abruptly and bluntly apiculate; both surfaces olivaceous when dry, the upper somewhat shining, the lower dull and darker, the midrib prominent on both; main-nerves 5 or 6 pairs, spreading, faint on both surfaces; length 2 to 3 in.; breadth 75 to 1.75 in.; petioles 3 to 6 in. Stipules very short, connate to form a collar, caducous. Panicles large, umbellately cymose, longer than the leaves (sometimes very much so); their branches numerous, spreading, puberulous, with minute bracteoles at the divisions. Flowers 15 in. long, numerous, in ultimate cymules of 2 or 3, shortly pedicellate. Calyx thick, minutely pubescent, shortly campanulate or sub-cupular, the mouth with 5 acute teeth or subentire. Corolla longer than the calyx, salver-shaped, its 5 lobes spreading, lanceolate, acute, the throat sericeous; anthers 5, elliptic. Fruit ellipsoid, tapered to the base, and the apex crowned by the rather large remains of the calyx; obscurely ridged; 15 in. long and 1 in. in diam. ; sometimes sub-globular, the epicarp somewhat pulpy. Seeds slightly convex and faintly ridged on the dorsal surface, the ventral with a broad