Emmenopterys RUBIACEAE Tarenna 



white, 5-merous, in terminal corymbs, at least one fl. in each corymb subtended by a 

 white foliaceous persistent bract; calyx ciliate, deciduous; style filiform: capsule woody, 

 dehiscent; seeds numerous, with a finely reticulate wing. 2 species, in eastern Asia: 

 one in China. (Greek: emmeno, persist, and pteryx, wing; referring to the persistent 

 wing-like calyx-lobe.) 



1. Emmenopterys henryi Oliv. m$k$S (Hsiang Kuo Shu; Fragrant-fruit Tree) (Lee 

 952). Tree, to 25 m.; fls. white, VI-VIII; fr. VII-IX. Southern and central 

 China; locally in An., Che., Hun., Hup., Ki. Forest. 



7. Gardenia Ellis fiMJ-M (Huang Chih Tzu Shu) 



Erect shrubs or trees, sometimes spiny, (not ours) with large showy white or 

 yellow fragrant solitary or fascicled fls.; calyx tube sometimes lobed or winged, 

 persistent; corolla tube much exceeding the calyx, the lobes contorted or spreading: 

 fr. coriaceous or fleshy, many-seeded, in our species tipped by 5 slender calyx lobes. 60 

 species, in tropical and subtropical parts of the eastern hemisphere; one in China. (In 

 honor of Alexander Garden, a physician of Charleston, South Carolina, a correspondent 

 of Linnaeus.) 



1. Gardenia jasminioides Ellis (G. florida Linn.; G. augusta (L.) Merr.) Cape Jasmine 

 fdlB'- (Huang Chih Tzu; Yellow Gardenia) (B.M.933). Bushy evergreen shrub, 

 to 2m.; fls. white, fragrant, VI. China; locally in An., Hun., Hup., Ki., Ku. 

 Planted, ornamental. Fig. 347. 



8. Serissa Comm. T^ffJH (Liu Yiieh Hsiieh Shu) 



Brg. bushy shrubs with small (1-4 cm. long) subsessile lvs.; stipular sheaths armed 

 with 1-3 stiff bristles: fls. axillary, small, white, sessile, solitary or fascicled; bracts 

 and calyx lobes sometimes bristle-tipped; corolla segments 3-lobed; stamens 4-6, inserted 

 on the corolla tube: fr. a subglobose 2-seeded berry or capsule. 2 species, in eastern 

 Asia; both of them in China. (Name given by Dioscorides; meaning unknown.) 



Key to the Species 



Corolla tube more than 2xthe calyx; calyx teeth 1-1. 5mm. long: bracts 



not bristle-tipped 1 • S. foetida 



Corolla tube about equal to the calyx; calyx teeth 3-4 mm. long, linear- 

 subulate : bracts bristle-tipped 2 . S. serissoides 



1. Serissa foetida (L.f.) Lam. T^ff (Liu Yiieh Hsiieh; June Snow) (B.M.930). Shrub, 

 to Ira.; fls. white and purple, VII. Japan, Korea, China, Indo-China; locally in 

 Hup., Ki., Ku. Brushland, rare. 



2. Serissa serissoides (DC.) Druce (S. democritea Baill. ex Franch.; Democritea 

 serissoides DC; Leptodermis nervosa Hutchins.) $Sf^M (Man T'ien Hsing; Stars- 

 all-over-the-sky) (Fra.D.154; AA.J.8-.22). Shrub, to 1 m.; fls. white, VII- VIII. China; 

 locally in An., Che., Hon., Ki., Ku. Brushland, common. 



9. Tarenna Gaertn. Mi^M (Ta Luen Mu Shu) 

 Trees and shrubs with comparatively large (5-15 cm. long) opposite petiolate lvs., 

 and with stipules, bracts and calyx lobes unarmed: infl. in terminal many- fld. corymbs; 

 corolla funnel-form, the lobes twisted in bud; stamens on the corolla-mouth, sessile or 



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