Randia. | LXX. RUBIACEA) (HIERN). d9 
merous, erect, sessile, terminal in the forks of the branches, about 7 in. 
long. Calyx 1 in. long, deeply lobed, pubescent; lobes elongate- 
subulate. Corolla-tube narrowly cylindrical, green, pubescent on both 
sides, striate; limb 2-24 in. diam., deeply 7—8-lobed; lobes oval, 
mucronate-cuspidate. Anthers 7-8, 4 in. long, exserted. Stigma 
clavate, bipartite, exserted.— Gardenia octomera, Hook. Bot. Mag. 
t. 5410. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann! (Hort. Kew! October, 1863); Old 
Calabar, Dr. Robb! Rev. W. C. Thomson! 
13. R. Munsee, Schweinf. mss. in Herb. Shrubby. Leaves 
obovate-oblong, acute, subcuspidate, obliquely subauriculate at the 
base, thinly coriaceous, quite glabrous, subsessile, not verticillate, 10 
by 33-5 in. ; lateral veins about 8 pairs ; stipules. . . . Flowers 104 in. 
long. Calyx 3 in. long; limb spathaceous, glabrous outside, silky- 
velvety inside, slit down one side about half way; spathe rather 
acute. Corolla-tube slender, silky-tomentose inside, funnel-shaped 
above ; limb 34 in. diam.; lobes broad rounded or obtusely pointed or 
apiculate, 2 in. long. Anthers partly exserted. 
North Central. Monbuttu-land, Schweinfurth! (I have only seen a drawing 
and one leaf.) 
Randia africana, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iii. 502, very imperfectly described, is un 
Known to me. 
29. GARDENIA, Ellis; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 89. 
Calyx-tube ‘globose campanulate turbinate or oblong; limb persis- 
tent tubular lobed dentate truncate or spathaceous, sometimes foliaceous _ 
°F appendaged. Corolla salver-shaped funnel-shaped or campanulate, 
exceeding the calyx; limb usually 5— (sometimes 4 or 6-11-) 
obed ; lobes spreading or recurved, contorted usually dextrorsely (as 
eh from inside) in our species. Stamens as many as the corolla- 
obes, inserted at the mouth or on the tube of the corolla, sessile or 
subsessile ; anthers linear, glabrous, fixed at the back above the base, 
rte or acute, exserted or included. .Disk annular or cushion- 
teen Ovary 1-celled ; style robust ; stigma club-shaped or fusiform, 
eared or sulcate, usually bifid or lobed at the apex ; ovules numerous, 
tached in longitudinal rows to 2 or more, rarely only 1, parietal pla- 
i's. Fruit indehiscent, 1-celled, often partially divided into cells by 
tree ncontas. Seeds numerous, usually immersed in pulp.—Shrubs or 
wi 
connate h Opposite orrarely verticillate (8-4-nate) leaves and branches, 
culate AaDules, and usually rather or very large subsessile or pedan- 
ranch Owers, solitary or rarely corymbose, usually terminating short 
nehes or in the axils of the uppermost leaves. 
World. ~~ large genus scattered over the tropical and subtropical parts of the Old 
Flowers solitary. 
oem glabrescent or hoary-puberulous, not tawny. 
rolla salver-shaped, with long slender tube, 
Tult oblong conical or globose. a 
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