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50. RUBIACE^. 



{Vsychotrid, 



A small erect shrub with smooth branches. Leaves ovate, obovate, or 

 lanceolate, acute, attenuate at the base, thin, nearly glabrous, minutely 

 punctate and pale beneath \ lateral nerves 8 pairs, distinctly looping 

 within the margin; blade 2 — 5 by '5 — 1*75 in.; petiole 0*25 in. long. 

 Stipules short, acute, caducous. Cymes few or many flowered, mostly 

 terminal^ 1—3 in. long, branches opposite or verticellate, slender, as 

 long a,8 or longer than the peduncle. Flowers small, sessile. Bracts 

 and bracteoles minute, linear, caducous* Calyx short, tubular, 4i-toothed. 

 Corolla white, tubular or slightly funnel-shaped, about *12 in. long, 

 limb with 4 spreading or reflexed lobes, mouth of the corolla hairy within. 

 Stamens at the mouth of the tube ; filaments very short. Ovary 4-lobed ; 

 style as long as the corolla tube. Fruit ovoid, curved, black, shining, 

 ridged, about "5 in. long, crowned with the toothed calyx. Seeds ridged 

 along the back, ventral ly flat ; albumen equable. 



Fairly common in the forests near the falls of Gairsoppah in North 

 Kanara. Flowers during the rainy season. Fruit ripe during Decem- 

 ber and January. 



6. P. oetosulcata, Talb,, sp. nov. Herb. '^o. 3556. Jour. Bomb. Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. XL 237. t. 7. 



An erect, stout, smooth-barked shrub with green, glabrous branches. 

 Leaves obovate or oblanceolate, abruptly acuminate, shining above, pale 

 beneath, thin ; blade 3 — 6 by 1 — 2 in. ; petiole '2 — "5 in. long ; lateral nerves 

 7 — 10 pairs, prominent, paiallel, usually with small, saccate glands in the 

 axils. Stipules connate at the base, long or shortly acuminate, deciduous. 

 Flowers white in short terminal corymbose cymes 1 — 2 in. long, branches 

 opposite. Calyx minute, cup-shaped, 5-toothed. Corolla "l in., tube hairy 

 at the mouth. Fruit obovoid, steaight or slightly curved, 8-ridged, black 

 and succulent when ripe, but soon drying and becoming regularly ridged 

 with a flattened top. Seeds 2, black, rough, dorsally 4i-ridged, ventrally 

 flat, "5 in. long ; albumen equable, horny. 



A large, gregarious, branched shrub 10 — 20 feet high with a stem 1—2 

 in. in diameter at the base. Common in some of the evergreen forests of the 

 Siddapore and Sircy sub-divisions of North Kanara. Fl. K. S. Fr. C. S. 



19. CHASALIA, Comms. 



Shrubs with the general characters of Psychotria. Leaves mem- 

 branous. Corolla-tube slender and curved. Fruit globose^ didymous 

 seeds orbicular, dorsally much compressed^ ventrally deeply concave ; 

 albumen equable. 



C. curviflora, Thw. Enum. 150, 421 ; Fl. Br. I. 3. 176, 'Psychotria 

 longifolia, Dalz. in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. II. 133. Kan mullige gidda, K. 



Eastern tropical Himalaya; Sikkim 2 — 6000 ft., Assam, Cachar, 

 Malay Peninsula, also the Western Peninsula from Bombay southwards. 



In the evergreen forests of North Kanara and the Koakau, common. 

 Fl. May- Aug. Usually a small shrub. The waxy white slender curved 

 tubular flowers with a yellow throat are characteristic. 



