134 King & Gamble — Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [N'o. 3, 



trichotomous, often short, few-flowered. Flowers sessile, from -5 to 1 in. 

 long. Calyx only '15 in. long, campanulate, the mouth irregularly and 

 shortly toothed. Corolla about four times as long as the calyx, the tube 

 long andnarrow; its 4 lobes not a quarter of its length, lanceolate, spread- 

 ing. Anthers 4, linear- oblong, deeply cordate at the base, the filaments 

 varying in length. Style also varying in length. jP/mi pisiform, globose 

 sometimes didymous, crowned by the small remains of the calyx, glab- 

 rous, pyrenes thin, each with one plano-convex seed. Kurz For. Flora 

 Burma, II. 14; Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd- Bat. IV. 202; Hook fil. FI. 

 Br. Ind. HI. 176; Triraen Flora Ceylon III. 363. C. Uirida, 0. tetran- 

 dra, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 281, 282. 0. Sangiana, Miq Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 

 546. Psychotria lurida, Bl. Bijdr. 959 ; DC. Prod. IV. 521. P. curvifoUa 

 and P. ophioxyloides, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 167, 

 168; Cat. 83*60, 8364; DC. Prod. I.e. 520. P. ambigna, W. & A. Prod. 

 433 ; Wt. Ic. t. 127. P. tetravdra, BC. Bijdr. 961 ; DC. I.e. 521. Zwaar- 

 dekronia lurida, Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. II. 252. Ixora attenudta, 

 Wall. Cat. 6164. Psychotria, Wall. Cat. 8361, 8362, 8363, 8364,8375 ; 

 (in part) 8386, 8890. Knbiaceae, Wall. Cat. 8461. 



In all the provinces, common. 



The corolla varies in length and is moreover dimorphous as regards the re- 

 spective length of the stamens and pistils. As regards leaves the plant varies 

 greatly. It seems necessary, however, to separate one Malayan variety. 



VAR. linearis King & Gamble ; leaves linear-oblong from 3*25 to 8*5 

 in. long, and from '35 to '65 in. in breadth. 



Malacca: Ridley 1359: Goodenough 1606. 



2. CHASALiAROSTRATAjMiq.in Ann. Mus.Lugd.Bat.IV.203 excl.syn. 

 Psychotria tetrandra. A slender glabrous shrub ; young branches thicker 

 than a crow-quill, compressed, pale. Leaves membranous, greenish when 

 dry, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, the apex acuminate, the base usually much 

 narrowed but sometimes rounded and oblique ; both surfaces more or 

 less distinctly fine-reticulate ; main-nerves 5 or 6 pairs, curved, spread- 

 ing, conspicuous beneath when dry; length 3 to 6 in.; breadth 1*5 to 

 2 in.; petiole -25 to '4 in.; stipules less than '1 in. long, connate into a 

 short tube, the mouth with a few biistles. Cymes solitary, terminal, 

 slender, from "75 to 2 in. long (including the peduncle) ; bracteoles 

 few, broad, coriaceous; branches divergent trichotomous, few-flowered. 

 Flowers 'lb in. long, on short pedicels. Calyx campnnulate; the mouth 

 oblique, irregularly 4- or 5-toothed. CoroIla-tuhG wide, only slightly 

 longer than the calyx; the limb about as long as the tube with 4 broad 

 blunt spreading lobes. Anthers 3 or 4, ovate, as long as the filaments, 

 included in the corolla-tube. Fruit ovoid, smooth, *25 in. long. Hook. 



