362 RubiacecZ. {Chasalia^ 



Moist region from 2000-4000 ft. ; rare. Hantane (Gardner); Sabara- 

 gamuwa (Thwaites). Fl. March. 

 Endemic. 



13. P. bisulcata, W. and A. Prod. 434 (1834). [Plate LIV.] 

 P. asiatica, Moon Cat. 14 (non L.*). Thw. Enum. 148 (excl. var. /3)_ 

 C. P. 158. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 170. Wight, Ic. t. 1039. 



A shrub, with rather stout cylindrical glabrous and shining 

 branches; 1. if-4 in., lanceolate or obovate-lanceolate or oval, 

 tapering to base, shortly acuminate, acute or subacute, glabrous,, 

 paler and rather silvery beneath, rather thick, lat. veins 7-10,, 

 depressed above, rather prominent beneath, often with very 

 deep pits in their axils, which appear as warts on upper surface, 

 petiole £-| in., stip. J in., oblong, acute, membranous, soon 

 falling ; fl. on short ped., rather large (for genus), cymes 

 usually shorter than 1., lax with divaricate opp. branches ; cal.- 

 limb cup-shaped, segm. short, triangular, acute ; berry \ in.,, 

 ovoid-oblong, crowned with large cal.-limb, smooth, pyrenes 

 with 2 deep grooves on back. 



Upper montane zone ; very common. Fl. March-May ; green. 

 Also in the Nilgiri Mountains. 



P. vaginans, DC. Prod. iv. 520 {Ophioxylon arboreum, Kcenig in Hb^ 

 Royen), from Ceylon, is Gaertnera Kcenigii, Wight (Loganiacese). 



40. CH ASAXiXA, Comm. 



A small shrub, stip. usually bifid, subpersistent; fl. rather 

 small, dimorphic, in terminal cymes ; cal.-limb very short, 

 segm. 5 (or 6), short; cor.-tube slightly dilated above, some- 

 what curved, glabrous within or with a few hairs at insertion 

 of stam., lobes 5, much shorter than tube, valvate; anth. long,, 

 sagittate at base ; ov. 2-celled, with one ascending ovule in 

 each cell, styles long, spreading ; disk very large and pro- 

 minent ; fruit a berry, pyrenes 2, very thin, very concave on 

 ventral surface, cup-shaped (crescent-shaped on section), en- 

 dosperm not ruminate. — Sp. 10; 2 in Fl. B. Ind. 



C. curviflora, Thw. Enum. 150 (1859). 



C. P. 1714. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 176. Wight, 111. t. 127 (Psychotria ambigua). 



A slender shrub, twigs compressed, glabrous ; 1. 3-9 in., 

 from oval to linear-lanceolate (usually 3-5 in. and lanceolate), 



* Linnasus's P. asiatica, the basis of the genus, is really a W. Indian 

 plant, now P. Brownei, Spr. 



