400 : RUBIACE X. STYLOCORYNE. 
ments narrow-oblong, acute, about as long as the tube, in sestivation slightly _ 
twisted. Stamens 5: anthers long, linear, acuminated, exserted, attached by 
their back a little above their base to. the mouth of the tube of the corolla : 
the filaments scarcely any, much shorter than the part of the anther below 
the point of attachment. Ovary crowned with a thickish fleshy disk, 2-cell- 
ed, with several ovules in each cell.- Style filiform the length of the tube of 
the corolla. Stigma entire, long, fusiform, striated, exserted. Berry glo- 
bose, marked on the apex with a circular scar where the limb of the calyx has 
fallen off, 2-celled, with 8-10 seeds in each cell. Seeds angled, pretty large, 
surrounded with mucilage. Albumen cartilaginous. Embryo as long as the 
albumen.—A rigid glabrous shrub, with usually opposite thorns, sometimes 
unarmed. Leaves petioled, from obovate to oblong, cuneate at the base, co- 
riaceous, with concave glands that are hairy on the margin in the axils of the 
nerves. Stipules interpetiolar, solitary on each side, distinct, roundish-ovate 
with a cuspidate point, caducous. Flowers pedicelled (white), in a nearly 
simple very shortly peduncled umbel-like corymb, at the ends of the branches, 
or on short lateral knobs or leafless young shoots: pedicels bibracteated near 
the base. Fruit about the size of a large pea, reddish. 
Easily recognised from most genera of the section by the decidedly deciduous limb 
of the calyx, which, soon after the flowering is over, separates by a transverse crac 
from the apex of the ovary. It has little affinity, so far as habit goes, with Styloco- 
ryne, in which De Candolle places it, but much more with Randia. We have nam 
it in honour of Mr Griffith, an able young botanist, now on the Madras establishment. 
1235. (1) G. fragrans (W. & A.)— Wight! cat. n. 1282.—Gardenia fragrans, 
Koen. ; Roxb. Cor. 2. t. 197; Roth, nov. sp. p. 150 ; Spr. syst. 1. p. 762.—G. 
Pandaki, Vahl.—Posoqueria fragrans, Roxb. fl. Ind. 1. p. 717; (ed. Wall.) 2. 
_ p. 567.—Randia Malabarica, Lam. enc. meth. 3. p. 25.—Stylocoryne Pandaki, 
oad prod. 4. p. 377.—S. Malabarica, DC. l. c.—Rheed. Mal. 5. t. 35 (not 
_ There can be no doubt but this shrub, which is very common and widely 
distributed in the Peninsula, is what Rheede has figured; but the descrip- 
tion, with the exception of the colour of the flowers, which only appear pur- 
ple in the dry state, is better than the plate. 
VIII. STYLOCORYNE. Cav. ; Gaertn. fr. 3. t. 197.—Webera, Schreb— 
Chomelia, Linn. (not Jacq.)—Cupia, DC. (partly).—Tarenna, Gertn. 
Jr. LT 
Calyx-tube turbinate : limb 5-cleft or 5-toothed, persistent. Corolla hy- 
pocrateriform or infundibuliform : tube longer than the limb of the calyx: 
limb 5-partite ; segments spreading or recurved. Stamens 5: filaments very 
short or almost wanting: anthers long, linear, exserted. Ovary 2-celled, 
with two or more ovules in each cell. Style filiform. Stigma much exserted, 
thick, elongated, fusiform or somewhat clavate, undivided. Berry globose, — 
2-celled, or rarely by abortion 1-celled, crowned with the limb of the calyx- 
Seeds peritropal, usually angled and either few or numerous in each cell, 
rarely from abortion solitary and not angled. Albumen between fleshy and 
cartilaginous, Radicle cylindric. Cotyledons flat, foliaceous, small.—Trees 
or shrubs, unarmed. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, petioled. Stipules interfo- 
liaceous, solitary on each side, the opposite ones usually (perhaps always) 
united together, broad at the base, with a sharp point. Flowers white, 12 
terminal or axillary corymbs or cymes, 
