176 LXXV. EUSTACES. (J. D. Hooker.) {Psychotria. 



acuminate serrulate nerves glabrous, stipules simple, calyx-teeth rounded mem- 

 branous, panicles terminal glomerate." Nipal, Wallich. 



I suspect that this is P. denticulata badly described. The term serrulate is appli- 

 cable to no Rubiaceous genus but Carlemannia. which is not Nipalese, and which 

 Don would never have referred to Pyschotria. The only other Nipalese species are 

 P. calocarpa, which has broadly crenulate leaves, but slender calyx-teeth, and P. 

 erratica, which differs in the cyme and calyx too. 



P. SPHJEROCARPA, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey $ Wall. ii. 161 ; glabrous 

 except the cymes, leaves petioled large broad elliptic acuminate or acute coriaceous, 

 nerves strong close-set, cymes terminal peduncled compact subglobose villous, flowers 

 subcapitate, fruit spherical smooth. Silhet hills, Wallich. 



Shrubby; branches thick, ends compressed. Leaves 8-12 in., base sometimes 

 rounded, shining above; petiole 1 in., rounded; stipules large, ovate, 2-lobed, lobes 

 acuminate. Calyx-teeth subulate. Corolla-tube short, throat villous. Fruit size of 

 a large pea, petioled, without ribs ; septum at length obliterated. Seeds hemi- 

 spheric, ventral face flattened with a T-shaped groove. I have seen no specimens, 

 and have taken the description from Wallich. It evidently resembles P. silhetensis, 

 of which the leaves are never rounded at the base, and the flowers not capitate ; 

 moreover, Wallich has silhetensis under another name. He says he received it in 

 1815 and 1821, and I find in his herb, a specimen of P.fulva marked as P. sphesro- 

 carpa ?, received from Silhet in the latter year. Possibly P. sph(srocarpa is made up 

 of leaves and flowers of fulva and fruit of silhetensis, or it may be a form of P. 

 denticulata. 



P. VAGINANS, DC. Prodr. iv. 520, from Ceylon, is not identifiable from the de- 

 scription ; it may be a Gaertnera. 



P. ? VAGINANS, DC. of W. $ A. Prodr. 434; Wight Cat. 1352. I find no speci- 

 mens of this in Wight's Herbarium, and, the fruit being unknown, it is unre- 

 cognisable. 



P. (Crrumilea) VAGINANS, Dalz. mss. in Dalz. Sf Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Ill; shrubby, 

 erect, glabrous, leaves large obovate, stipules ovate or lanceolate acute caducous 1^- 

 2 in. long, combined in a sheathing tube, cymes terminal peduncled paniculate 3- 

 chotomous puberulous, flowers small Vhite, fruit like a black peppercorn. Chorla 

 Grhat and Mahableshwur, rare. I suspect this to be P. truncata. 



P. AMPLA, Wall. Cat. 8333, is a Pavetta. 



P. ASIATICA, Linn. Amcen. Acad. v. 395, is a Jamaican plant received by Linnaeus 

 from Patrick Browne, and is P. Srownei, Spreng. 



P. OXYPHYLIA, Watt. Cat. 8374, is a Gaertnera, as are Psychotria, 8341, 8342, 

 8388, 8389. 



PSYCHOTRIA, Wall Cat. 8362, is in .part Chasalia curviflora and in part a Morinda; 

 8363 is in part Chasalia curviflora and in part a Leea ; 8376 is an Ixora, as is 8387 ; 

 8379 is an Apocynea. 



76. CHASALIA, Comms. 



Characters of Psychotria, but corolla-tube usually slender and curved ; seeds 

 orbicular, dorsally much compressed, ventrally deeply concave, hence some- 

 what cup-shaped; albumen equable. DISTKIB. About 10 species, tropical 

 Asiatic and African. 



1. C. curviflora, TJni\ Enum. 150, 421 ; glabrous, leaves membranous 

 from broadly elliptic to obovate-lanceolate oblanceolate or narrowly linear-oblong 

 acute cuspidate acuminate or caudate-acuminate, base narrowed into a long or 

 short petiole, nerves few or many, cymes terminal bracteate trichotomous dense- 

 or lax-flowered, corolla tubular curved. Kurz For. FL ii. 14. C. lurida, curvi- 

 flora, tetrandra (excl. syn. rostrata), and Sangiana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. ii. 282, 

 Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iv. 202, 203, and Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 546. Psychotria 

 lurida, SI. Bijd. 959 ; DC. Prodr. iv. 521. P. curviflora and ophioxyloides, 

 Wall. mJRoxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey fy Wall. ii. 167, 168, Cat. 8360, 8364; DC. 

 I.e. 620. P. amtogua, W. $ A. Prodr. 433; Wt. Ic. t. 127. P. tetrandra, 



