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elliptic or lanceolate, the apex caudate-acuminate, the base much nar- 

 rowed, both surfaces pale-brown when dry, shining, reticulate ; main- 

 nerves 7 to 10 pairs, thin, spreading, interarchiag '15 in. from the ed^ea, 

 the secondary nerves almost as prominent; length 3*6 to 6 in ; breadth 

 1*J5 to 1"8 in.; petiole '15 to '2 in. or '25 in., slender; stipules minute 

 triangular, much shorter than the petioles. Cymes sessile, 4- to 8-flow- 

 ered, ebracteate. Flowers "25 in. long, on short pedicels, narrow, erect. 

 Calyx tubular, with 3 broad teeth much shorter than the corolla, glab- 

 rous. Corolla narrowly tubular, with 3 long narrow-ovate lobes, hairy 

 inside except at the tip. Anthers 3, erect, narrowly oblong, not quite so 

 long as their filaments. Ovary 3-celled ; style long, slender, clavate. 

 Fruit sub-trigonous, or sub-didymous, depressed, '2 to 35 in, in diam., 

 shining, blue ; pyrenes 2 or 3, oblique sub-pyriform, smooth, each 

 divided into 2 cells by a transverse septum, the anterior cell empty. 

 Seeds concave, cupped, fleshy. 



Pbeak : Scortechini 264, 463 ; King's Collector 788, 2797, 2840, 5051 ; 

 Bidley 2928, 6549, 7437, 8574 ; Wray 426, 973, 2807, 3931. 



62. Chasalia, Commers. 



Characters of Psychotria except that the corolla-tube is slender and 

 in one species is usually cui'ved, and the seeds are orbicular plano- 

 concave, the doisal surface being flat and the anterior deeply concave ; 

 almost cupped, albumen uniform. — Distrib. About 10 species, tropical 

 Asiatic and African. 



In our opinion this genus might with advantage be reduced to Psychotria. 

 Flowers sessile, from "5 to 1 in. long ; corolla-tube slender, 



curved ... ... ... ... 1. C. curviflora. 



Flowers pedicelled, "IS in. long; corolla-tube wide, straight 2. C. rostrata. 



1. Chasalia curviflora, Thwaites Enum. PI. Ceyl. 150, 421. A 

 shrub 2 to 4 feet high; everywhere glabrous. Young branches woody, 

 terete, glabrous, dark-coloured when dry. Leaves membranous, ellip- 

 tic, oblong-elliptic, oblong or oblanceolate, shortly and somewhat abrupt- 

 ly and often bluntly acuminate, narrowed at the base; (narrowly ellip- 

 tic or linear in vars. ) upper surface olivaceous -brown when dry, the 

 lower paler; main-nerves 5 or 6 pairs, much curved, spreading and as- 

 cending, thin but distinct on the lower surface like the wide reticula- 

 tions ; length 6 to 8 in.; breadth 1 to 275 in.; petioles '3 to "75 in. 

 Stipules coriaceous, campanulate-cupular, blunt, '15 to '35 in. deep, the 

 upper edge truncate, entire or 2- or 3- cleft. Cymes solitary, terminal, 

 from 1 to 2 in. long, and the same in diam., sometimes on naked pedun- 

 cles 5 to 1'25 in. or even more in length ; branches divergent, 



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