398 RUBIACE E. RANDA. 
— 1227. (4) R. longispina (DC. :) spines opposite or occasionally alternate, 
horizontal: young branches drooping : leaves from obovate to oblong, cuneate 
at the base, glabrous, or pubescent on the nerves: flowers shortly pedicelled, 
generally 1-3 at the extremities of the young short axillary shoots, occasionally 
solitary and axillary: limb of the calyx campanulate, lobes ovate, with often 
a small tooth between them in the sinus: corolla silky on the outside ; tube 
rather longer than the segments of the calyx, with a dense ring of hairs near 
the base on the inside: fruit drupaceous, short-ovoid and slightly retuse at 
the base, crowned with the permanent limb of the calyx.—e, culta ; tube of 
the calyx and ovary glabrous.—R. longispina, DC. prod. 4. p. 386.—Poso- 
queria longispina, Roxb. fl. Ind. 1. p. 716 ; (ed. Wall.) 2. p. 566.—Gardenia 
longispina, Roxb. hort. Bengh. p. 15 ; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1379; Spr. syst. 
suppl. p. 84.—$, sylvestris ; tube of the calyx and ovarium more or less hairy. 
— Wight ! cat. n. 1276. : 
Roxburgh states the fruit to be obovate, and this is copied by other authors 
without examination ; but in his drawing, above referred to, the mature fruit 
is represented ovate and thickest at the base, as in our specimens. Roxburgh 
was only acquainted with the plant in a state of cultivation, as may be easily 
proved by the high number attached to his drawing: in a wild state the spmes 
are often so small as to render the specific name quite inapplicable. We are 
inclined to refer here specimens from Heyne in Rottler's herbarium marked 
Gardenia spinosa, on account of the size of the foliage, but they are not m 
fruit. Probably Canthium chinense, Pers. (Gardenia spinosa, Thunb. and 
Willd.) is our var. £; the Madras locality however given by Roemer and 
Schultes, and De Candolle, belongs to the Gard. spinosa of Linnseus. 
1228. (5) R. tomentosa (W. & A.:) spines opposite, spreading: branches 
E leaves on the young short shoots, petioled, oval, obtuse, more OF 
ess cuneate at the base ; upper surface thinly and hispidly pubescent, tomen- 
tose on the nerves; under, and the petioles, tomentose: flowers solitary 
the extremities of the leafy shoots, shortly pedicelled : fruit nearly globose; 
Mig htly 10-ribbed, villous or when ripe more glabrous, crowned with the tu- 
bular portion of the limb of the calyx and the remains of its ovate segments. 
—Wight! cat. n. 1277. 
1229. (6) R. floribunda (DC. :) spines axill rigid: leaves opposite and 
fascicled, obovate, cuneate at A. v Hg tao force shortly pedicelled, 
4-6 on each of the small lateral scaly leafless young shoots: calyx glabrous; 
tube cylindric, segments of the limb somewhat lanceolate, acuminated, per- 
sistent: corolla silky on the outside; tube rather shorter than the segments 
of the calyx, with a circle of erect hairs about the middle on the inside ; 
fruit ovate-cordate, shining, crowned with the limb of the cal x.—DC. d 
4. p. 386.— Posoqueria floribunda, Roxb. fl. Ind. 1. p. 719; ed. Wall.) 2. P- 
569.—Gardenia floribunda, Spr. syst. suppl. p. 84. 
$ 2. Armed with spines: limb of the calya toothed. 
1230. (7) R. uliginosa (DC. :) arboreous, armed: branches straight, 4-an- 
gled ; branchlets decussating, horizontal, terete, bearing 1—4 thorns ane ^" 
short-pedicellate flowers at their extremity: leaves short- etioled, oblong, - 
somewhat cuneate at the base, glabrous, shining: limb of the calyx tubuler 
bluntly 5-toothed or nearly quite entire, a little shorter than the tube of the 
corolla: corolla villous in the mouth: berry oval, drupaceous, even, 62: oon 
oo y p. aM CAMCN uliginosa, Retz, obs. 2. p. 14 ; Spr. m Tis. M 
i . Cor. 2. t. 135.—Posoqueria uliginosa, b, -inde 1. Ma (1 7- 
Wall.) 2. p. 563. à s PiN i i. 
_* 1231. (8) R. foliolosa (W. & A.:) shrubby, armed with spreading OPPO, 
site rigid rn leaves small, etie Db dn lateral knobs (aborti «^ Tz 
branches), oblong or obovate, obtuse, cuneate at the base, near 
