Lë Leg 
110 LXXV. RUBIACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Randia. 
campanulate, tube usually short, lobes broad reflexed. Berry large, many-seeded, 
crowned with the calyx-limb. 
3. R. uliginosa, DC. Prodr, iv, 380 ; glabrous, spines short straight or 
0, leaves obovate or oblong obtuse, flowers solitary white, calyx-tube terete, 
corolla glabrous externally. W. § A. Prodr. 398; Wight Io. t. 997; Dalz. $ 
Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 1195 Brand. For. Fl. 273; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 44; Clarke in 
Journ, Linn. Soc. Bot. xvii. 161. Gardenia uliginosa, Retz Obs. ii. 14; Roxb. 
Cor, Pl. t. 135; Wall. Cat. 8295. ? Q. pomifera, Wall. Cat. 8296 (an unarmed. 
specimen). Posoqueria uliginosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 712. 
Eastern, Central, and Southern India, not common northwards. GK, J. D. H. ; 
Assam, Hamilton.—Disrriz, Ava (G. pomifera, Wall.). 
A small, usually very rigid tree, with thick woody 4-angled branches, and leaves 
(exeept on young shoots) at the ends of the branchlets. Leaves 2-8 by 1-4 in., pale 
when dry, narrowed into the short slender petiole; stipules triangular. Flowers 
dimorphic, either large and sessile, or small and peduneled. Calyx-tube 11 in. ; lobes 
rounded. Corolla of the large form 1 to nearly 2 in. diam. ; lobes rounded ; tube with 
a ring of hairs within; of the small form with a very short tube glabrous within. 
Stigma fusiform, 2-lobed in the sessile-flowered, entire in the peduneled, Berry 2 in. 
long, yellow, ellipsoid in the sessile-flowered, smaller in the peduneled-flowered. Seeds 
compressed, smooth.—T'ruit sold in the markets, eatablo. 
4, R. dumetorum, Lamk. IU. t. 156, f. 4; DC. Prodr. iv. 385; spines 
stout straight, leaves obovate glabrous or pubescent, flowers solitary, calyx-tube 
terete strigose, corolla hairy externally, berry many-seeded. W. $ A. Prodr. 
397; Wight Ie. t. 580; Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 119; Bedd. FI. Sylv., Anal. 
Gen. t. xvi. f. 1; Brand. For. Fl. 273. R, nutans, longispina and floribunda, 
DC. & W.§ A: Dalz. § Gibs, Le: Kurs For. Fl. 45; Wight Ic. t. 581, 
582, 083. R. Hottleri, JV. $ A. Le R, stipulosa, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 
228, R. spinosa, Blume Bijd. 981. R. malabarica, Wall. Cat. 8255 e, PD. 
tomentosa, JV. $ A. Prodr. 398; Wall. Cat. 8264 A. Gardenia nutans, Row, 
Hort. Beng. 15; Wall. Cat. 8200. G. spinosa, Linn. fü. G. longispina «nd 
floribunda, Roxb. and others. G. dumetorum, Retz.; Roxb. Cor. Pl. t. 136; 
Wall. Cat. 8259. G. stipularis, Rottl. § Willd.; DC. 1. c. 388. G. glabra and 
G. propinqua, Br. in Wall. Cat. 8258, 8260. G. latifolia, Schlecht in Herb. 
Hohen. No. 861. Posoqueria dumetorum, P. nutans, P. longispina, and P. flori- 
bunda, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 713 to 719, Ceriscus malabaricus, Gaertn. Fruct. i. t. 23. 
SUBTROPICAL IItwArAYA from Jamu eastwards, ascending to 4000 ft, in Sikkim; and 
thence southwards to Currracoxe, Dron, MARTABAN, the WESTERN PENINSULA, and 
Crrton (not recorded from Assam, the Khasia Mts., Silhet, or the Eastern Peninsula). 
—Distris. Java, Sumatra, S. China, E. trop. Africa. 
A small tree or rigid shrub ; spines horizontal, often long and strong. Leaves 1-2 
in., glabrous or harshly or softly pubescent on one or both surfaces, obtuse or sub- 
acute, narrowed into the short petiole ; stipules ovate, acuminate. /V/owers rarely 2-3 
on a peduncle, subsessile, greenish yellow or white. Calyx strigose; teeth very vari- 
able, sometimes spathulate. Corolla 1-2 in. diam.; lobes oval or oblong. Berry 
globose or ovoid, 1-13 in. long, glabrous or pubescent, smooth or obscurely ribbed, 
yellow, pericarp thick. Seeds compressed, imbedded in pulp.—Wight and Arnott's 
R. tomentosa, of which very imperfect fruiting specimens only are known, is either a 
form with leaves softly tomentose beneath, and a globose slightly ribbed peduncled 
fruit, or a different species. 
5. R. tomentosa, Biume in DC. Prodr. iv. 379 (Gardenia) ; spines very 
long, shoots and leaves beneath densely velvetty, leaves obovate or orbicular 
subacute pubescent above, calyx-tube ribbed and corolla velvetty, berry many- 
seeded. enges tomentosa, Wall. Cat. 8264 B. G. dasycarpa, Kurz in Journ. 
As, Soc, 1872, ii. 412. 
