Chasalia. } LXXV. RUBIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker.) 177 
Bl. $ DC. ll. ce. Zwardekronia lurida, Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. ii. 252. 
Ixora attenuata, Wall. Cat. 6164. Psychotria, Wall. Cat. 8361, 8362, 8363, 
8364 (in part), 8375, 8386 (a very narrow-leaved form), 8390. Rubiacea, 
Wall. Cat, 8461. 
EasrERN Tropicat Hmaraya ; Sikkim, alt. 2-6000 ft. Assam, CACHAR, and the 
Kuasa Mrs., ascending to 5000 ft. 'TENAssERIM, the ANDAMAN ISLANDS, MALAYAN 
Prniysuta, and Penance. WusterN PEwiwsULA; the Ghats from Bombay south- 
wards. CEYLON, ascending to 4000 ft.—Disrrim. Malay Islands to Borneo. 
An evergreen small weak shrub 2-4 ft. high. Leaves greenish when dry, in the 
most frequent form obovate-lanceolate 4-6 by 14-2] in. diam., narrowed into a 
slender petiole 1-3 in. long; in a common Malayan form almost elliptic, in Tenas- 
serim ones 8-10 by 13-2} in.; in Ceylon ones they vary from 23-6 by j-1j in., 
always membranous with slender distant nerves, arching upwards; stipules triangular 
or ovate or broader, acute obtuse or rounded, entire or 2-fid, often connate and per- 
sistent. Cymes rarely 2 in. long, more or less pyramidal or rounded ; peduncle 2 in. 
long and under; branches short, soft, rather stout, often purplish ; bracts persistent, 
ovate-laneeolate or subulate; flowers 3-2 in. long, sufascicled, sessile, 4-5-merous. 
Calyx short, teeth triangular. Corolla variable in length, dimorphic, one form with 
exserted anthers and included stigmas, the other with these positions reversed ; throat 
glabrous. Fruit size of a pea, globose, more or less didymous, smooth; pyrenes thin. 
Seed orbicular and eupular, smooth.—This plant was first published as a Chasalia by 
Miquel, in 1856, under the name of C. lurida, founded on Blume's Psychotria lurida ; 
but Wallich’s P. curviflora antedates Blume's lurida by two years, and as it is by far 
the most expressive specific name, and is also taken up as a Chasalia by Miquel after 
Thwaites (Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iv. 202), I adopt it here. 
Var. 1. longifolia; leaves 8-12 by 14-2 in., nerves more numerous spreading. 
Psychotria longifolia, Dalz. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. i. 133, not of Beddome. 
Psychotria, Wall. Cat. 8386.—Cachar, Keenan; Bombay, Dalzell, Stocks; Malacca, 
Maingay (Kew Distrib. 3052).—Though so dissimilar, this is obviously an extreme 
form of C. curviflora, connected by intermediates; indeed, one specimen (from Cachar) 
has the lower part of the leaf with the numerous spreading nerves of the variety, and 
the upper part with the distant arched ones of the type. 
Var. 2. ellipsoidea; leaves as in the common form of the species, fruit ellipsoid. 
— Khasia Mts.; Jarain in Jyntea, alt. 3000 ft., C. B. Clarke. 
9. C. rostrata, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iv. 203, excl. syn. tetrandra; 
glabrous, leaves short-petioled elliptic-lanceolate caudate-acuminate, cymes ter- 
minal peduncled very small lax-flowered bracteate, corolla-tube very short. 
Psychotria rostrata, Bl. and Polyozus latifolia (fid. Miquel), Bl. Byd. 961, 
948; DC. Prodr. iv. 521, 494. 
Maracca, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 3045), Maingay (n. 937).—Drstrie. Java. 
Branches slender. Leaves 4—5 by 3.-14 in., greenish when dry, membranous, base 
acute; nerves 6-8 pair, arched; stipules short, broad, entire or toothed. Cymes 
slender, trichotomous, branches often drooping, few-flowered ; braets subulate ; flowers 
minute. Calyx-teeth triangular. Corolla glabrous. Fruit much as in C. curviflora. 
—This unites Psychotria and Chasalia, having the flowers of P. montana and fruit of 
C. curviflora.. 
77. GEOPHILA, Don. 
Small, slender, creeping, perennial herbs. Leaves long-petioled, orbicular 
reniform or cordate ; stipules interpetiolar, ovate, entire. Flowers small, solitary 
or umbelled, subsessile or on exiles or terminal peduncles; bracts subulate 
linear or leafy. Calyx-tube obovoid, lobes or segments 5-7, slender, persistent. 
Corolla elongate funnel-shaped, throat hairy; lobes 4-7, valvate in bud. 
Stamens 4-7, on the corolla-throat, filaments filiform; anthers linear. Ovary 
2-celled; style slender, arms short or long; ovules 1 basal, erect in each cell. 
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