018 TAX, ■RUBTA.CE.'E. 



Corolla-tube very short, hairy at the mouth inside. Fruit obovoid or 

 pvriform, ^-g in. long, straight or slightly carved, 8-ridged, black and 

 succulent when ripe, soon drying and becoming regularly ridged with a 

 flattened top. Seeds dorsally 4- ridged {Talbot) ; albumen uniform, horny. 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 198. Ps)/chotrii sanneiitosa, Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (189S) p. G46(HO<of Blume).— Flowers : July- 

 Aug. 



Kanaka : common in some of the evergreen forests of the Sicldapur and Sirsi 

 pubdivis^ions of N. Kanara, Talbot; Yacombi, Taltiot, 3556.', Woodrowl, Bhiva\— 

 DisTRiB. Apparently endemic. 



2G. CH AS ALIA, Commers. 



Shrubs or small trees ; branclilets terete. Leaves opposite or 3-nately 

 whorled, petiolate ; stipules intrapetiolar, simple or 2-fid, free or connate. 

 Flowers in terminal cymes. Calyx-tube ovoid or subglobose ; limb 

 truncate or 5-toothed, persistent. Corolla-tube elongate, terete, usually 

 curved, the throat bearded or naked; lobes .5, much smaller than the 

 tube, erect or spreading, valvate. Stamens 5, inserted in the corolla- 

 tube ; filaments or short. Disk annular or tumid. Ovary 2-celled ; 

 ovules solitary in each cell, erect from the base. Fruit dry or slightly 

 fleshy ; pyrenes 2, vei\y thin, very concave on the ventral face, cup- 

 shaped (crescent-shaped in section). Seeds orbicular, compressed, 

 ton vex on the back,, concave on the ventral face; testa membranous; 

 albumen horny, not ruminate; embryo small ; cotyledons broad ; radicle 

 terete, inferior. — Distkib. Asia, Tropical Africa, Mascarene Islands ; 

 species 10. 



1, Chasalia curviflora, Thw. Ennm. (1859) p. 150. A small 

 shrub 2-4| ft. high ; branclilets compressed, glabrous. Leaves 5-9 by 

 1 i-2| in., elliptic, oblong- lanceolate, or sometimes obovate, acute, 

 acuminate, or obtuse, glabrous, base tapering, sometimes much so ; main 

 nerves 8-10 pairs; petioles j-lj in. long, often obscure owing to the 

 tapering of the leaf-blade ; stipules short, \ in. long, usually 2-tid. 

 Flowers dimorphic, one form with exserted anthers and included styles, 

 the other the opposite, sessile or nearly so, in trichotomously branched 

 terminal peduncled cymes 1^-2 in. long; peduncles 1-2 in. long; 

 branches short, often purplish ; bracts persistent, ovate-lanceolate or 

 subulate. Calyx ^^ in. long, glabrous : limb slightly dilated above ; 

 teeth scarcely -^^^ in. long, triangular, acute. Corolla waxy-white or 

 pinkish, with a yellow throat, variable in length, sometimes reaching 

 nearly | in. long ; tube slender, glabrous outside, hairy in the throat 

 inside; lobes -^ in. long, oblong, subobtuse. Berry size of a pea, 

 depressed-globose or more or less didymous, dark-purple ; pyrenes 

 thin, dorsally compressed. FI. B. I. v. 3, p. 176 ; Trim. Fl. Cey'l. v. 2, 

 p. 362 ; Taib. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 198 ; AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 11 (1898) p. 640. Psychotria longifolia, Dalz. in Kew Journ. 

 Bot. v. 2 (1850) p. 133 {not of Beddome). Psijchotria amhiyua, Wight 

 & Arn. Prodr. p. 433; AVight, 111. t. 127; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 111.— 

 Flowers : Apr.-July. 



Konkan: Law\ ; Malwfin, Bitchie, 1793! S. M. Country: Parva Ghat, Dahell ^ 

 Gihmn, Ritchie, 1795 ! Kanaka : evergreen forests of N. Kanara, Talbot ; Karwar^ 

 Woodmu; Divimana, Woodruw; Siddapur, Woodrotu;Vshc\\, Ritchie, \l^'d\ — Disteib. 

 More or less throughout India; Ceylon, Malaya, Borneo. 



