1.^4 Flora of the Malayan Feninsula- 



trichotoraous, often short, few-flowered. Flowers sessile, fi'om -5 to 1 in. 

 long. Calyx only 'IS in. long, campanulate, the mouth irregnlai-ly and 

 shortly toothed. Corolla about four times as long as the calyx, the tube 

 long andnarrow; its 4 lobes not a quarter of its length, lanceolate, spread- 

 ing. Anthers 4, linear- oblong, deeply cordate at the base, the filaments 

 varying in length. Style also varying in length. Fr?«^ pisiform, globose 

 sometimes didymous, crowned by the small remains of the calyx, glab- 

 rous, pyrenes thin, each with one plano-convex seed. Kurz For. Flora 

 Burma, II. 14; Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd- Bat. IV. 202; Hook fil. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. III. 176 ; Trimen Flora Ceylon III. 363. 0. luridn, G. tetrnn- 

 dra, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 281, 282. 0. Sangiana, Miq Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 

 546. Psychotria lurida, Bl. Bijdr. 959 ; DC. Prod. IV. 521. P. curvifoUa 

 and P. ophioxyloides, "Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 167, 

 168; Cat. 8360, 8364; DO. Prod. I.e. 520. P. ambigna, W. & A. Prod. 

 433 ; Wt. Ic. 1. 127. P. tetrandra, BC. Bijdr. 961 ; DC. I.e. 521. Zwaar- 

 dekronin lurida, Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. II, 252. Ixora aftenuntn. 

 Wall. Cat. 6164. Psychotria, Wall. Cat. 8361, 8362, 8363, 8364,8375 ; 

 (in part) 8386, 8390. Rubiaceae, Wall. Cat. 8461. 

 In all the provinces, common. 



The corolla varies in length and is moreover dimorphous aa regards the re- 

 spective length of the stamens and pistils. As regards leaves the plant vnries 

 greatly. It seems necessary, however, to separate one Malayan variety. 



VAR. linearis King & Gramble ; leaves linear-oblong from 3*25 to 8*5 

 in. long, and from '35 to '65 in. in breadth. 

 Malacca: Ridley 1369: Goodenough 1606. 



2. CHASALiAROSTRATA,Miq.in Ann.Mus.Lugd.Bnt.lv. 203 excl.syn. 

 Psychotria tetrandra. A slender glabrous shrub ; young branches thicker 

 than a crow-quill, compressed, pale. Leaves membranous, greenish when 

 dry, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, the apex acuminate, the base usually much 

 narrowed but sometimes rounded and oblique ; both surfaces more or 

 less distinctly fine-reticulate ; main-nerves 5 or 6 pairs, curved, spread- 

 ing, conspicuous beneath when dry; length 3 to 6 in. ; breadth l"5 to 

 2 in.; petiole '25 to "4 in.; stipules less than 1 in. long, connate into a 

 short tube, the mouth with a few bristles. Cymes solitaiy, terminal, 

 slender, from "75 to 2 in. long (including the peduncle) ; bracteoles 

 few, broad, coinaceous ; branches divergent, trichotomous, few-flowered. 

 Flowers •15 in. long, on short pedicels. Calyx campanulate; the mouth 

 oblique, irregularly 4- or 5-toothed. Corolla-txihe wide, only slightly 

 longer than the calyx ; the limb about as long as the tube with 4 broad 

 blunt spreading lobes. Anthers 3 or 4, ovate, as long aa the filaments, 

 included in the corolla-tube. Fruit ovoid, smooth, 25 in. long. Hook. 

 208 



