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[ Chasalia . 
1. C. capitata, DC. Prod. iv. 531. A glabrous shrub, with rather 
stout terete branches. Leaves short-petioled, ob ovate-oblong, 3-4 in. 
long, minutely cuspidate, sub coriaceous, cuneately narrowed from the 
middle to the base, turning black in drying ; stipules membranous, 
deltoid, J iu. long. Flowers 20-30 in a dense globose sessile terminal 
head ; pedicels none. Calyx campanulate, £ in. long ; teeth lanceo- 
late, as long as the tube. Corolla nearly an inch long ; lanceolate 
lobes as long as the slender nearly cylindrical tube. Drupe ob- 
long, | in. long, crowned by a deep cup. 
Mauritius, in shaded woods of the Ponce range, etc. Sieber, ii. 56 ! etc. En- 
demic. This is not the plant figured by Bojer, Nouv. Mem. Soc. Helv. viii. t. 2, as 
Gartnera capitata , which has a superior ovary, but it appears to he included by him 
under that name in Hort. Maur. 216. 
2. C. Boryana, DC. Prod. iv. 532. A much-branched glabrous 
shrub, 3-4 feet high, with rather stout angular branchlets. Leaves 
obovate-oblong, often ternate, 3-4 in. long, 1^-2 in. broad at the middle, 
subacute with a deltoid base ; stipules deltoid, subpersistent, 4—3 in. 
long ; petiole slender, 1-1 1 in. long. Flowers in an ample terminal 
corymbose panicle, 3-6 in. broad, usually fascicled 3-6 together at the 
end of the branchlets. Calyx i n - l° n g 5 teeth minute, deltoid. 
Corolla \ in. long, whitish ; lobes lanceolate-deltoid, as long as the 
tube. Drupe oblong, i in. long, purple, not crowned by a cup. C. 
borboniea, A. Rich. ; Bojer , Hort. Maur. 173. Gsertnera cymiflora, 
Bojer , Hort. Maur. 218. 
Mauritius, in woods through the island, frequent. Sieber, ii. 2-3, etc. Endemic. 
What we have from M. Bouton as Geertnera lanceolata , DC. Prod. 933, is in part 
this and in part C. divaricate/,. 
3. C. grandifolia, DC. Prod. iv. 532. A low glabrous shrub, with 
stout terete branches. Leaves 2-3-nate, obovate-oblong, acute, sub- 
coriaceous, 4-6 in. long, cuneately narrowed in the lower half ; stipules 
deltoid, -§— | in. long, persistent ; petiole in. long. Flowers in an 
ample corymbose terminal panicle, 3-4 in. broad, sessile in clusters of 
3-6 at the end of the branchlets. Calyx under in. long, campanu- 
late, the teeth very obscure. Corolla f in. long, the deltoid spreading 
lobes -i— §- the length of the tube. Drupe oblong, whitish or black, 
J in. long, not crowned with a cup. Graertnera cserulea, Bojer , Hort. 
Maur. 217. Psychotria grandifolia, Sieber. 
Mauritius, frequent in the mountain woods. Sieber , ii. 55 ! etc. Endemic. 
4. C. divaricata, DC. Prod. iv. 532. A low erect glabrous shrub, 
with stout terete branches. Leaves obovate-oblong, 4-6 in. long, some- 
times ternate, acute, cuneately narrowed in the lower half; stipules 
J— | in. long, deltoid, persistent ; petiole \-l in. long. Flowers in a corym- 
bose terminal panicle, sessile in clusters of 2-6 at the end of the 
branchlets. Calyx J in. deep, campanulate ; teeth deltoid-cuspidate. 
Developed corolla f in. long ; lobes lanceolate, ^ as long as the tube. 
Drupe ovoid-oblong, J in* long, rather 4-angular, crowned with a dis- 
