LXXIV. RUBIACEiE. 
[Chasalia. 
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small campanulate, teeth 5. Corolla long, tubular, curved at the 
top, lobes short, 5, usually hardly expanded. Stamens 5, sub-sessile. 
Style bifid. Disc conic truncate. Fruit drupaceous, 2-seeded. 
Species 4 or 5, Indo-Malayan. King and Gamble, Journ. As. Soc. 
Beng. lxxiii, 133. 
Glabrous. 
Flowers clustered on the branch-ends of a cyme. 
Flowers 1 in, long ..... 
Flowers -25 in. long ..... 
Flowers in a bracteate head . . ... 
Leaves tomentose beneath .... 
(1) C. curviflora 
(2) C. minor 
(3) C. bracteata 
(4) C. pubescens 
(1) C. curviflora Thw. Enum. Pl. Ceyl. 150, 421; King and 
Gamble, lx. 133. 
Shrub 2 to 5 ft. tall. Branches erect, glabrous. Leaves mem¬ 
branous, elliptic to oblanceolate, but very variable, shortly abruptly 
acuminate, base narrowed, shining dark green; nerves 5 to 6 pairs; 
6 to 8 in. long, 1 to 275 in. wide; petioles *3 to 75 in. long. Stipules 
tubular, truncate entire or cleft. Cymes solitary terminal, 1 to 
2 in. long; peduncles and branches purple or white tinted purple, 
fleshy divergent. Flowers sessile clustered on the branch-ends. 
Calyx small, black. Corolla 1 in. long, tube long, stout, curved 
at tip, white tipped madder pink, mouth yellow, lobes very short, 
lanceolate, not spreading. Fruit black pulpy globose borne on the 
thickened white or pink fleshy branches. Seeds 2, plano-convex. 
Hah. Very common and variable in size, shape of leaves, size of 
flowers, etc. In woods whole peninsula, a very pretty attractive 
plant. Distrib. India, Ceylon, Malay islands. 
var. longifolia Hook. fil. F.B.I. iii. 177; var. linearis King and 
Gamble, lx. 134. 
Leaves linear acuminate, 6 to 7 in. long, 1*5 in. wide. This 
occurs sporadically in open places. Singapore, Malacca, fairly 
common, Ayer Panas; Mt. Ophir, 3000 ft. altitude. Selangor, 
Rawang (Kloss), leaves rather coriaceous. Penang Hill, a form 
with leaves only *12 in. wide. This form also occurs in India, 
Borneo, etc. Intermediate forms occur at Waterloo estate in 
Perak and Batu Feringhi in Penang with leaves linear-oblong, 
7 in. long, 2-5 in. wide, and other forms occur in Province 
Wellesley at Ara Kudah and on Mt. Ophir. Native names : Berah; 
Buah Bras; Gading Galok; Jarum hitam; Gandarusa hitam; 
Metamak; Pecha Piling hitam; Kamiri; Pecha Priok putih; 
Piu-piu; var. angustifolia Tubang; Sumpuh Sumut. Use: The 
root used for Herpes zoster (Gimlette). 
(2) C. minor Ridl. Journ. F.M.S. Mus. iv. 39. 
Shrub or spreading bush. Stems woody. Leaves lanceolate- 
acuminate thin, glabrous, edges undulate; nerves 6 pairs; 3*5 in. 
long, -5 in. wide. Cymes with 3 slender spreading branches 
•5 in. long, 3 flowers at the end of each. Flowers white; pedicels 
