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12. RANDIA lloust. 



1. R. angatensis (Blanco) F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 108. 

 (2004 Meyer) February. In forests at 900 m. Endemic. 



2. R. cumingiana Yidal. Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 179. 



(1779, 1958, 2123, 3049 Borden) August May; (6871 Elmer) November; (3090 

 Merrill) October; (1458 Ahern'a collector) August. In thickets below 100 m. 

 Endemic. 



1 R. densiflora (Wall.) Benth.; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 3 (1880) 112. 



(6873 Elmer) November; (2047 Borden) October; (1472 Ahern'a collector) 

 August. In forests at about 200 in. Tropical Asia to Malaya and Australia. 



4. Randia whitfordii (Elmer). 



A small tree 7 to 10 m. high. Branches glabrous, light gray, heaves opposite, 

 Bubcoriaceous, glabrous, oblong to narrowly elliptical-lanceolate or oblong-lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, the acumen abrupt, rather sharp, the base aente. S to l."i cm. 

 longj 2.;") to (i cm. wide, usually pale when dry and slightly shining; nerves 5 to 

 7 on each side of the midrib, somewhat prominent beneath, curved-ascending; 

 petioles glabrous, about 8 mm. long; stipules coriaceous. 5 mm. long, sharply 

 acuminate. Flowers fascicled or in very short congested axillary cymes, white, 

 very fragrant, 3 to 5 or more in each fascicle, the inflorescence glabrous. Calyx 

 cup-shaped. 2 mm. long, short pedieeled or sessile, with 4 minute distant teeth. 

 Corolla tube 4 nun. long, glabrous outside, densely hirsute within except at the 

 base, the lobes 4, spreading, oblong, about !• mm. long, 4 mm. wide, acute or 

 acuminate, glabrous outside, more or less pilose on the inner surface. Stamens 4; 

 filaments glabrous, 2 mm. long; anthers oblong-lanceolate, 4 mm. long. Ovary 

 2c. died, ovules several in each cell. Stigma bifid, the arms flattened. Fruit 

 usually solitary in axils of fallen leaves on 5 mm. long hractcatc peduncles, 

 globose, 2.5 cm. in diameter, firm, glabrous, minutely roughened, marked at the 

 apex with a large circular ring, the calyx not persistent, the pericarp hard, 

 rather brittle when dry. ."> to 8 mm. thick. 2-celled. the placenta very thin. Seeds 



ii to 12 in each cell, irregularly strongly Battened, circular in outline, about .1 mm. 

 in diameter, brown, Btrongly imbricated, pulp wanting. 



(2787, 2998 Meyer) February, May; (1212, 2<>20 Borden) June, May; (:1725 

 Merrill) January; (202. 112:1 WMtford) May: (004:i Elmer) November. Also 

 from the Province of Ri/.al. Luzon (172(1 Merrill); (No. 2!»88 Ahern'a collector) 

 Gardenia whitfordii Elmer in herb.. Randia faeoiculiflora Elmer in herb., in part. 

 In forests 150 to 700 m . 



5. R. fitzalani F. Muell. in Benth. Fl. Austr. 3 (1866) 411. 



(227!), 2996 Meyer) August; (3031 Borden) May; (360, 1017. 1057. I2:i(t 



WMtford) May; (586 Bame*) .March. In forests 100 to 700 m. Australia. 



I have been unable to verity Mr. Elmer's identification of the above material, 

 but as the specimens agree rather closely with the description of the above 

 species, his determination is provisionally accepted. 



(i. Randia uncaria Elmer, h. sp. in herb. 



Scandeiit. <! to 8 in. high, the branches with stout recurved spines about 1 cm. 

 long. Branches glabrous, slender. light gray or brown. Leaves opposite, equal, 

 glabrous throughout, oblong to oblong-ovate or oblong-lanceolate, rather sharply 

 acuminate, the base acute. 10 to 18 cm. long, 3.8 to r> cm. wide, subcoriaceous ; 

 nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, prominent beneath, anastomosing, tbe 



reticulations lax: petioles about 1 cm. long, usually rugose; stipules glabrous, 

 4 mm. long, acuminate; spines axillary or in the axils of fallen leaves on the 

 older branches, glabrous. Inflorescence terminal, cymoscly paniculate, the pedun- 

 cle short, stout, the branches few. short, few flowered, the branches and pedicels 

 subtended by small bracts and' bracteoles. Calyx tubular. 7 nun. long, very 



