HypriaNTHERA. RUBIACEJE. 599 
scarcely longer than the spines, very glabrous: flowers small, solitary and — 
sessile on the apex of the lateral knobs, glabrous: calyx-limb somewhat trun- 
cated, with 6 minute sharp and slightly recurved teeth: tube of the corolla 
scarcely twice the length of the limb of the calyx, the inside villous at the 
mouth.— Wight ! cat. n. 1278.—Gardenia foliolosa, herb. Madr. ! 
We do not know whence this species was obtained ; our specimens are 
from Klein's herbarium, and were cultivated in the Missionaries’ Garden ; 
they are without fruit. 
$ 3. Unarmed. 
1232. (9) R. corymbosa (W. & A.:) unarmed: leaves long-petioled, ob- 
long-obovate, cuneate at the base ; when young with the upper side pubes- 
cent, and the under as well as the petioles velvetty: flowers in a slightly 
branched terminal sessile corymb: calyx almost glabrous, its limb campanu- 
late, minutely 5-toothed : corolla externally hirsute.— Wight ! cat. n. 1279. 
May Roth's Gardenia pubescens be this species? We have only one speci- 
men before us, and it exhibits no appearance of thorns ; we have not seen the 
fruit. 3 
1233. (10) R. Candolleana (W. & A.:) unarmed: leaves long-petioled, 
roundish-obovate, obtuse, cuneate and tapering at the base,'glabrous on both 
sides: flowers in a small terminal sessile very slightly branched corymb: ca- 
lyx glabrous ; its limb campanulate, nearly truncated, with 5 small acute de- 
ciduous teeth : fruit globose.— Wight! cat. n. 1280. : 
The limb of the calyx, when the fruit advances towards maturity, appears 
from various causes, to be more or less completely broken off. 
VI. HYPTIANTHERA. W.& A. 
Calyx-tube short, obovate: limb deeply 5-cleft ; segments oblong, acumi- 
nated. Corolla rotate: tube very short, hairy on the inside: limb 5-partite, 
spreading, in eestivation twisted. Stamens 5: filaments wanting’: anthers ob- 
long, large, attached by the back above the middle to the top of the tube of 
the corolla, free at the base and apex. Ovary crowned with a thick fleshy 
disk, 2-celled, with about 6 suspended ovules in each cell. Style very short, 
perforating the disk. Stigma hirsute, large, oblong, 2-partite, segments erect, 
close together and never diverging. Berry globose, crowned with the per- 
sistent limb of the calyx, 2-celled, with few seeds imbricated in two rows in 
each cell.—Shrubby, unarmed, glabrous. Leaves short-petioled, oblong- 
lanceolate, acuminated, cuneate at the base. Stipules interpetiolar, entire, 
solitary on each side, triangular, acuminated, rigid, adpressed. Flowers 
bracteated, small, collected into small dense globose sessile fascicles in the 
axils of the leaves. Fruit about the size of a pea. 
1234. (1) H. stricta (W. & A.)—Wight! cat. n. 1281.—Randia stricta, 
Roxb. A on 1. p. 526 1 (ed. Wan. Y Ayn 145; DC. prod. 4. p. 386.—Ma- 
crocnemum strictum, Roxb. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1029 ; Roem. and Schult. 
syst. 5. p.6; Smith in Rees’ cycl.—Rondeletia stricta, Roth, nov. sp. p. 140 
(excl. s -); Roem. and Sch. 1. c. p. 234 ; Spr. syst. 1. p. TO 
The EUR by Plukenet (t. 132. f. 6.) referred to by Roth, might at first 
sight be taken for a reduced one of this plant, but is undoubtedly Elatine 
( Bergia ) verticillata: we do not comprehend why De Candolle seems dis- 
posed to refer it to Zizyphus. 
VII. GRIFFITHIA. W.& A. 
Calyx-tube obovate, short : limb campanulate, 5-toothed, deciduous. Co- 
rolla infundibuliform, hairy in the throat: limb spreading, 5-partite ; seg- 
