14 RUBIACER. [ Psychotria. 
the throat, the tube wide-funnel-shaped, a line long or a little 
longer, the lobes not quite so long. 
Has.—Rather rare in the tropical forests of Martaban down to Tenasserim, 
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all parts quite glabrous ; stipules ovate-lanceolate, acuminate ; leaves 
lobes half as long ; berries almost oboval, the size of a pper-ker- 
nel, crowned by the calyx-limb, glabrous ; pyrenes 5-ribbed and 
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CHASALIA, Comm. 
Calyx-tube urceolate or ellipsoid, the limb truncate or 4.5. 
toothed, persistent, Corolla naked at the throat, more or less 
2 
m. 
basilar, with large ovate cotyledons. — Small shrubs, with ovate, 
usually connate, interpetiolar stipules. Flowers rather small, but 
conspicuous, in termina] cymes. 
1. on curviflora, Thw.—An evergreen small shrub or rather 
undershrub, 2-3 ft. high, all parts quite glabrous ; stipules. ovate, 
ree or connate at the base; leaves oblong-lanceolate to obovate- 
oblong, acuminate at the base, on a 3-] in. long’ petiole, shortly 
and abruptly acuminate, 4-6 in. long, thin membranous, entire, 
glabrous ; flowers rather conspicuous, white, with a yellow throat, 
on very short, thick, white pedicels arranged in a smooth purplish- 
coloured terminal brachiate cyme 3 bracts small, lanceolate, acumi- 
nate; calyx nearly a line long, the teeth broadly ovate ; corolla tubu- 
lar funnel-shaped, 2 in, long, glabrous 3 berries globular, the size of 
