Geophila.'] Rubiacece. 363 



tapering to base, acuminate, acute or obtuse, glabrous, thin, 

 lat. veins curved, anastomosing within the margin, rather pro- 

 minent beneath, petiole obscure, \-\ in., stip. short ; fl. sessile, 

 usually in threes, cymes small, stalked, terminal, trichotomous, 

 peduncle I in., glabrous, pink or white, bracts linear, small ; 

 cal. glabrous, segm. broad, acute or apiculate; cor. thick, tube 

 rather slender, lobes oblong, obtuse ; berry \ in., depressed- 

 globose, tipped with withered cal.-segm., pulpy, inky-purple, 

 pyrenes dorsally compressed. 



Moist region up to 5000 ft., or higher; rather common, especially 

 above 3000 ft. Fl. Jan.-April and July; pinkish-white, calyx purple. 



Also in India, Burma, Malaya. 



C. lurida, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 282 (1856), is an earlier name. The 

 petioles and midrib beneath are usually stained with dark purple. Var. 

 longifolia, Hk. f. has longer more oblong 1. with the lat. veins more 

 numerous and horizontal; we have it from Reigam Korale. 



41. GEOPKILA, Don. 



A small creeping herb, stip. broad, subpersistent ; fl. few, 

 moderate-sized, terminal; cal.-segm. 5, long, linear-lanceolate; 

 cor.-tube long, lobes 5, valvate; stam. inserted low down in 

 tube, anth. sagittate at base ; ov. 2-celled, with 1 erect basal 

 ovule in each cell, stigma bilobed ; fruit a berry, pyrenes 2, 

 plano-convex, not grooved, endosperm plane. — Sp. 8-10; 1 in 

 Fl. B. Ind. 



Cr. renif oralis, D. Don, Prod. Fl. Nepal. 136 (1825). Agu- 

 karni, S. 



Psychotria herbacea, L., Moon Cat. 14. Thw. Enum. 150. C. P. 1705. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 178. Wight, Ic. t. 54. 



Small, herbaceous, stems prostrate, rooting at the nodes, 

 filiform, puberulous, with short erect branches ; 1. small, \-i 

 in., ovate-reniform, obtuse, slightly pubescent or glabrous, 

 paler beneath, petiole erect, \-\ in., pubescent, stip. broadly 

 ovate, obtuse; fl. on short ped., 1-3 together, with 2 linear 

 bracts beneath each, terminal ; cal.-segm. much longer than 

 tube, acuminate, ciliate; cor. slightly pubescent outside, tube 

 dilated upwards, lobes oblong, acute, shorter than tube; berry 

 \ in., globose, crowned with large cal.-limb, smooth, pulpy, 

 red, pyrenes small, flat and smooth on ventral, convex, rough 

 and bluntly keeled on dorsal surface. 



Moist low country to 3000 ft.; rather common (according to Thwaites), 

 but I have met with it but rarely. Fl. May and June. 

 In most parts of Tropics of Asia, Africa, and America. 

 Moon s locality is Kalutara; he also gives as S. name ' Koturu-bedda.' 



