Rubiacea.] 



CHINA. 191 



oblongis acutis basi obtusis cordatisve adultis supra glabris subtus dense velutino-pubescenti- 

 bus, pedunculis apice bibracteatis bifloris axillaribus solitariis petiolo demidio brevioribus, 

 terminalibus subcapitals, calycis villosi dentibus minutis ovatis acutis, corollse tubo elongato 

 aequali villoso. — L. Periclymenum. Lour. Cochin, v. 1. p. 185. 



We first became acquainted with this species by specimens sent from the Mauritius by Mr. Telfair to Dr. 

 Hooker; but it is only there probably in a state of cultivation. It is closely allied on the one hand to L. 

 confusa, De Cand, from which it differs by the leaves being smooth above, and the short peduncles; and 

 on the other to L. Leschenaultii, Wall., which, however, is said to have ovate subcordate ciliated leaves, and 

 villous branches. This, with many others in the section " Nintooa" of De Candolle, might with justice be 

 referred to the old L. Japonica, a species which has been perhaps too much dismembered. 



Ord. XLV. RUBIACEiE. Juss. 



1. Adina globiflora ; foliis ovato-lanceolatis, pedunculis folio brevioribus.— Sal. Par. 

 Lond. t. 115. De Cand. Prodr. v. 4. p. 349.— Nauclea Adina. Sm. Bot. Mag. t. 2613. 



The specimen before us has the leaves considerably broader than is figured in the Bot. Magazine, which 

 makes us suspect that A. peduncularis, De Cand., or Nauclea adinoides, Lindl., is a mere variety. 



1. Musssenda pubescens ; foliis ovato-oblongis acuminatis in nervis pubescentibus, stipulis 

 utrinque geminis subulatis, corymbo terminali, lobis calycinis subulatis, uno petiolato ovato 

 acuto, corollse tubo gracili calycem plus duplo superante, lobis acutis. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed 2. 

 v.l.p. 372. Bot. Mag. t. 2099. De Cand. Prodr. v. 4. p. 371.— M. frondosa. Lour. Cochin. 

 v. 1. p. 188. Bumph. Amb. v. 4. L 51. 



Notwithstanding such high authorities, we can scarcely consider this as distinct from M. frondosa : indeed 

 the principal point of difference appears to be that, in the latter, the leaves and panicle are described as villous. 

 Some Authors add that in M. frondosa the tube of the corolla is scarcely longer than the calycine segments, 

 while in M. pubescens it is more than twice as long; and this may be true if the figure in Burman, Zeyl. 

 t. 76, where it is so represented, be considered the type of the species and where the flowers are described 

 as red; but then if the Belilla of Rheede, Hort. Mai. v. 2. t. 18, (not 17, as quoted by Roxburgh, Walhch, 

 and De Candolle,) be the same, the calycine segments are remarkably short in comparison with the tube of 

 the corolla. The Belilla of Rheede is, however, probably distinct, and the same may be said of M. Suma- 

 trana, Roth., although we suspect there is a mistake regarding the red coloured corolla in both the plant of 

 Rheede and of Burman. After a careful comparison of Rumphius' figure, in the Herb. Amb. v. 4. t. 51, and of 

 his description of his Folium Principissce angustifolium, we feel inclined to refer it here rather than to M. 

 glabra, under which it is quoted by Vahl and De Candolle. Perhaps also M. frondosa, Roxb. Hort. Bengh. 

 and Fl. Ind. v. 2. p. 557, as well as of Roxb. et Wall. Fl. Ind. v. 2. p. 227, Wall. List of E. I. Plants, n. 6250, 

 a-e, and M. Dovinia, Ham. in Linn. Trans, v. 14. p. 203, who refers to the figure in Rumphius, as identical 

 with M. pubescens, which, in cultivation in this country, has frequently the whole underside of the leaves 

 pubescent. 



1. Gardenia florida; biennis fruticosa erecta, foliis ellipticis utrinque acutis, floribus 

 solitariis subterminalibus sessilibus subbypocraterimorphis, calycis laciniis verticabbus 

 lanceolato-subulatis tubum corollae oequantibus, baccis elongato-turbinatis costatis. De 

 Cand.— Linn. Sp. PL p. 305. Ker, in Bot. Beg. t. 449. De Cand. Prodr. v. 4. p. 379.— 

 Pluku. Amalth. t. 448. / 4. 



1. Randia Sinensis; spinis brevibus oppositis subrecurvis, foliis (lanceolatis Lour.) super- 

 ioribus ovatis lsevibus glabris, corymbis terminalibus parvis paucifloris, calycis limbo tubuloso 



