- Gardenia. | LXXV. RUBIACE®. (J. D. Hooker.) 119 
flowers greenish polygamo-moneecious, d fascicled pedicelled, 9 sessile terminal, 
. corolla velvety, tube very short and wide, fruit ovoid with a thick beak, Kurz 
For. Fl. ii, 40. G. oxycarpa, Br. in Wall. Cat, 8261. 
Prov and Tenasserm, Wallich, Kurz.— DisrRIn. Ava. 
A deciduous tree, 15-18 ft.; branches and spines very stout. Leaves very like 
. those of G. campanulata, base much produced and narrowed. Calyx of 9 flask-shaped, 
densely pubescent; lobes foliaceous, obovate-oblong or orbieular, exceeding the vel- 
vety corolla. Fruit 1} in. long; pericarp rough, thick, fleshy, with a thin shining 
. endocarp and 5 ? placentas. 
13. G. erythroclada, Kurz in Jóurn. As. Soc, 1877, ii. 911; For. P. 
ii. 40; branches red stout, spines short or 0, leaves connate obovate or suborbi- 
cular pubescent or tomentose, flowers greenish polygamo-dicecious fascicled or 
cymose pedicelled, 9 solitary sessile, fruits dimorphic of the d - hermaph. smaller 
globose, of the 9 -hermaph. ovoid. 
Prov; at Rangoon, M*Clelland, Texasserim and Brea, common in forests, Kurz. 
—Disrris. Ava. 
A small deciduous tree with very stout branches of a curious brick red colour, 
shortly pubescent, or the leaves at length glabrate, Leaves 4-10 in., often as broad as 
long, rather rough to the touch; petiole 1-2 in.; stipules ovate, acute, Flowers 
- densely tomentose, pedicels of d very unequal. Calyx-lohes + in. in flower, J in fruit, 
orbicular or broadly obovate. Fruits, the larger 2 in. long, broadly ovoid, obscurely 
. angled ; pericarp 1} in. thick, dense, with a crustaceous shining lining ; smaller globose, 
- Size of a cherry; placentas I think 2 only. Seeds small, black. 
Secr. III. Rothmannia. Shrubs, unarmed. Flowers axillary (in the 
Indian species), solitary or fascicled; calyx-teeth linear. Corolla inflated. 
14. Œ. tentaculata, J/ook.; branches slender pubescent, leaves elliptic- 
lanceolate or oblanceolate caudate-acuminate membranous glabrous or puberulous 
beneath, flowers axillary polygamous, calyx-lobes filiform flexuous, corolla cam- 
panulate. 
Maracca, Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 2810, 839); foot of Mount Ophir, 
Lobb. 
A shrub, unarmed. Leaves 4-9 by 13-23 in., sessile or narrowed into a very short 
petiole, dark green when dry ` stipules ovate, acute, connate. Flowers in fascicles of 
3-6; pedicels 4—4 in., narrowly campanulate ; limb dilated, with 5 spreading filiform 
curving pubescent teeth 4-3 in. long. Corolla 3 in. long, glabrous; lobes ovate, ob- 
tuse. Fruit 1% in. long, broadly ellipsoid, crowned with the long tentacle-like ealyx- 
teeth, smooth; pericarp thin, brittle, polished within; placentas 2. Sceds many, 
compressed, 
DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 
G. ixog xroL1A, Br. in Wall. Cat. 8262; glabrous, unarmed, branches angled, leaves 
4-7 by 14-4 in. ovate- or linear-oblong obtuse very coriaceous narrowed to the base, 
nerves 10-12 pair very distant, petiole very short, fruit sessile broadly ovoid shortly 
beaked by the calyx-tube 1} in. long smooth, pericarp very thick polished within, 
placentas 2, seeds very broad and flat.—Tavoy, Wallich.—Perhaps a Randia. 
~~ G. CALYCULATA, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 704; * arboreous, leaves petioled ovate acuminate 
. smooth, flowers terminal solitary sessile, germ involueelled, calycine segments ensi- 
form, anthers within the swelling tube of the ó-cleft corolla.” DC. Prodr. iv. 380 ; 
W. § A. Prodr. 396.—Native place uncertain, said to be brought from Hyderabad to 
Madras, where Roxburgh saw it in a garden. “ Probably G. latifolia,” W. & A. 
Q. ENNEANDRA, Koen.; W. § A. Prodr. 395; this differs from G. latifolia, Ait., in 
the very short obtuse calyx-teeth, and in the thin pericarp of the fruit. Under G. 
latifolia Y have stated that Roxburgh's drawing and description of that plant differs 
from Aiton's in these points, but without more materials it is impossible to say 
whether this is to be regarded as a specifie distinction. 
