Tsijchotria.] 40. RUBIACE^E. 113 



P. Dalzellii, Hook f. Fl. Br. I. 3. 1G.'3. Througliout theevergreen 

 forests of North Ktinara ; very coininou on tlio ghats near Ycllapur. FL 

 •June, July. Fr. Jany. ]\Ioli, Fruit black, succulent, crovvn<id with the 

 calyx-tube. Albumen ruminate. 



P. flavida, sp nov. — A small shrub. Lea,ves elliptic, glabrous, 

 -abruptly, shortly acuminate, coriaceous, nari'owed into the petiole, 10-4 

 by 4-2 in., nerves about 12 pairs, much stronger than the veins, stipules 

 ovate, acuminate, deciduous. Flowers numerous, very small in terminal, 

 peduncled cyines ; peduncle 1-2 in.; branches opposite, flattened, dicho- 

 tomously divided, shorter than the peduncle. Bracts 2, leafy, deciduous. 

 Calyx short, truncate. Corolla i'.j in. ; tube very short-; throat villous, 

 'Fruit I in., ellipsoid, compressed, crowned with the calyx, black, 

 scarcely pulpy, 2-seeded ; seeds with a crustaceous testa, plano-convcE 

 with a narrow dorsal ridge, rugose, black ; albumen strongly ruminate. 

 The cyme branches turn bright yellow in fruit. Abuudant in the ever- 

 green forests of the Sirsi and Siddapur trJukae of North Kanara. Fl- 

 June, July. Fr. Jany., Mch. The following about this species has 

 just been received from Kew^ : — This is certainly P, nicdi/lora, W. & A. 

 It is identical with the following speciniens which have not been taken 

 •up in the Fl. Br. I. No. 73.5 A. PI. Ind. Gr. (Terr. Canara et confiu.) 

 .-R. F. Hohenacker. rsyckotria amhlgua, W. & A. Pt. 433 — Miq. — North 

 and South Konkan, Mr. Law. — No. (i, Gibson 2U Dec. 1845. From the 

 general habit it come.s very near P. Johnson^ Hook. f. As ifc does not 

 agree with the short description -given in the Fl. Br, I., I have de- 

 ■scribed and named it as above. 



P. canarensis, sp. nov. — An erect shrub, brseiiches smooth. Leaves 

 glabrous, lanceolate, or ovate, acute, attenuate at the base, minutely 

 punctate, very pale beneath ; petiole short or 0, blade 2-5 inches long by 

 ^ inch to 1 inch broad ; stipules small, short acuminate, caducuous. 

 Lateral nerves 8 pairs. Cymes terminal or axillary, few flowered, 2-3 

 'inches, branches as long as peduncle, slender. Fruit ridged, suleate, 

 black, shining, crowned with the toothed calyx -^ in. long, by 2 lines 

 broad at base, narrowed upwards. Seeds ridged along back, vcntrally 

 flat. Albumen equable. This shrub is found in the moist evergreen 

 forests situated near the Falls of Gaii^soppah in North Kanara. It is 

 closely alied to both P. hisulcata, "W. & A., and P.filipes, Hook. f. 

 Flowers during the rainy season. Fruit ripe Dec, ,Ian. I have speci- 

 mens, in fruit, of another, probably a new species .from North Kanara, 

 Leaves obovate, cuneate, acuminate, pale beneath, glandular in the axils 

 of the nerves. F"ruit dry, \ in. 10-ribbed, 2-seeded. 



CHASALLA., Comms. 



Slirubs. Leaves membranous. Corolla-tube slender and curved. 

 Fruit j5-lobose, didynious seeds orbicular, dorsally mucli compressed, 

 ventrally deeply concave; albumen equable. 



C. curviflora, Thw. Enum. 150, 421 ; Fl. Br. I. 3. 170. Tsijchotria 

 lonijifolia, Dalz. in Hook. Lond, Jour. Bot. II. 133. In the evergreen 

 forests of North Kanara and the Konkan, common. Fl. May-Aug, 

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