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Corolla funnel-shaped, with a long tube and 5 spreading valvate lobes. 
Stamens 5, inserted at the throat of the corolla ; filaments very short. 
Ovary 2^4-celled ; ovules solitary in the cells ; style with two branches. 
Fruits fleshy, combined into a round head, each containing 2-1 pyrenes. 
— Shrubs or low trees, with heads solitary, opposite or umbellate. 
Distrib. Found the world in the tropics. Species 40. 
Glabrous, with short corolla-lobes 1. M. citrifolia. 
Pubescent, with corolla-lobes half as long as the tube ... 2. M. pubescens. 
1. M. citrifolia, Linn. ; DC. Prod. iv. 446. A low tree, glabrous 
in all its parts, with stout quadrangular branchlets. Leaves large, 
petioled, oblong, acute, glabrous, membranous ; stipules deltoid, per- 
sistent. Heads \ in. thick before expansion, consisting of 20-30 
flowers, solitary or opposite, axillary or terminal, on short ascending 
peduncles. Corolla f in. long, whitish ; lobes short, lanceolate. 
Drupes white. 
Seychelles, in Mahe and other islands, common chiefly on the shore, Bojer, 
Horne ! Through the tropics of the Old World. Murier de Java. 
2. M. pubescens, Smith ; DC. Prod. iv. 447. A shrub with 
slender flexuose tomentose branchlets. Leaves short-petioled, oblan- 
ceolate-oblong, acute, cuneately narrowed in the lower half, mem- 
branous, thinly pilose beneath, 3-4 in. long, 1-lf in. broad above the 
middle ; stipules small, deltoid. Heads x in. thick before expansion, 
solitary, on short ascending peduncles, one terminal and one each from 
the axil of many of the leaves. Corolla f in. long ; lobes lanceolate, 
half as long as the broadly funnel-shaped tube. Anthers reaching half- 
way up the limb. 
Mauritius, in the forests of Grandport, JBojer. Described from the type specimen 
in Smith’s Herbarium, sent by Thouin to the younger Linnaeus. 
21. CHASALIA, Comm. 
Calyx-tube campanulate ; teeth 5, minute or nearly obsolete. 
Corolla hypocrateriform, with a long slender tube and 5 spreading lanceo- 
late or deltoid lobes. Stamens 5 ; anthers nearly sessile at the throat of 
the corolla. Ovary 2-celled 3 ovules solitary in the cells 3 style fili- 
form, forked. Fruit a small fleshy oblong drupe, containing two bony 
pyrenes. — Shrubs, with leaves sometimes ternate, the flowers in terminal 
heads or corymbose panicles. Distrib. Tropics of Old World. Spe- 
cies about 10. Confused by Bojer and others with Gcertnera, which 
it exactly resembles, except that the ovary is inferior. 
Flowers in a single globose terminal head 1. C. capitata. 
Flowers in a terminal corymbose panicle, not pedicellate. 
Stipules small. Petiole l-l£ in. long 2. C. Boryana. 
Stipules as long as the petioles. 
Calyx under X V in. long, nearly truncate at the mouth 3. C. grandifolia. 
Calyx £ in. long, with distinct deltoid cuspidate teeth. 4. C. divaricata. 
Flowers in a lax ^terminal corymbose panicle and pedicellate 5. C. Moonle. 
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