Randia.]} : RUBIACEZ (Sond.) 7 
a campanulate throat, and spreading acute segments; fruit ovate, fleshy, 
costate, 2-valved, 2-celled, many seeded. Thunb. diss. Gd.n. 6. Bot. M. 
t.690. H. Z,2288. Rothmannia Capensis, Th, act. Holm.t776, p.65,f. 2. 
Has. Woods, Swellendam, George, Uitenhage ; Natal. Jan.—Feb. (Hb. D., Sd.) 
Tree ; stem 15~30 feet high. Wood very hard. Leaves 3-4 inches long, 1-1} 
inch broad, coriaceous, veiny. Flowers white, spotted with red, sweet scented, 
calyx 1 inch and more, the corolla 3 inches long. Fruit nearly 14 inch in diameter. 
V. RANDIA, Linn. 
Calyx-tube obovate, limb 5-lobed. Corolla funnel-shaped, with a short 
tube; limb 5-parted, twisted in estivation. Anthers sessile within the 
tube of the corolla, included. Stigmas 2, thick. Berry nearly dry, 
crowned by the calyx, corticate, 2-celled. Seeds many in each cell, 
fixed to a central placenta, wingless, imbedded in the pulp, or imbrica- 
ted downwards. Albumen cartilaginous. Hmbryo straight, with a terete 
radicle, and orbicular flat cotyledons. DOC. 1. c. 4, p. 384. Endl. Gen. 
N. 3304, 
Much branched small trees or shrubs, with axillary opposite or subverticillate 
thorns. Leaves sessile or subsessile. Flowers almost sessile ; usually solitary, 
rising from the axils of the leaves. Named after Isaac Rand, once a demonstrator 
of botany at the Chelsea botanic garden. 
Peduncles 1-flowered, shorter than calyx ; anth. linear, acute ... (1) rudis. 
Pedune. 2-3 fi, longer than calyx; anth. oblong ... ... ...... (2) Kraussii. 
1. RB. rudis (E. Meyer); unarmed, young branches minutely downy ; 
leaves fasciculate, obovate, suborbicular or elliptic, obtuse or subacute, 
cuneate at the base, glabrous or minutely downy beneath, on very short 
petioles ; peduncles axillary, one-flowered, shorter than the calyx ; tube 
of calyx obconical, lobes obovate, obtuse ; corolla funnel-shaped, limb 
erect, spreading with oblong flat lobes; anthers linear, acute ; fruit 
sub-globose, 10-ribbed. Harv. Thes. t. 34. Heinsia Capensis, Buek in 
herb. Ecklon. Gardenia microcarpa, Hochst. in pl. Krauss. 
Var. a. Calyx glabrous. 
Var, y. Calyx setulose or scabrous. R. parvifolia, Harv. Thes. t. 35. 
Has. Mts. near Enon, near Grahamstown, Karregarivier, and between Hoff- 
mann’s KI. and Driefontein, Drege, Zeyh. 2710, H. Hutton, E.G Z. Var. 8. Natal, 
Krauss, 314,347. Gueinzius, 117, 555. J. Sanderson, 266, 199. Sept. (Herb. D., Sd.) 
A rigid shrub, with erect, spreading, greyish branches. Stipules on the young 
twigs broadly ovate. Leaves 3-1 inch long, when young often minutely downy. 
Peduncles very short. Calyx 2 lines long, tube about as long as the spathulate, 
obtuse, or mucronulate lobes. Corolla $ inch long. Fruit the size of a pea, black. 
I cannot regard Var. y. as a distinct species, the leaves being often larger than in 
Var. a. In many specimens collected by Ecklon and Zeyher, the calyx lobes are 
evidently mucronulate and not quite glabrous. 
2. R. Kraussii, (Harv. Thes. t. 33.); unarmed or rarely spinous ; 
young branches minutely downy ; leaves obovate or elliptic-obtuse, 
cuneate at the base, glabrous, netted beneath, on very short petioles ; 
peduneles axillary, 2-3 flowered, pedicels longer than the calyx ; tube of 
calyx ovate, glabrous, lobes obovate, obtuse ; corolla minutely downy, 
tube very short, lobes broadly obovate, obtuse, undulate ; anthers oblong ; 
fruit globose. Randia Lachnosiphonium, Hochst, Flora, 1842, 237- 
Lachnosiphonium obovatum, Hochst. ! l. c. p. 238. 
