toothed but splitting more or less into 2 lobes, EE on one S 8 
Corolla-tube scarcely so long as the calyx; lobes M up de? 
lines long. Placentas apparently 3. Style thickly clavate ‘atthe en 
408 LXI. RUBIACER. (Gardenia. 
The genus is confined to the Old World, spreading over the tropical and eubinoptaliegine 
of mg and Africa. As far as hitherto observed, all the Australian species appear to 
dem 
Calyx limb uis Sedi — but splitting on one side or into 
2 lobes E. nt gle E 
Leaves und g, narrowed $ (Es base. Corolla-tube di- 
lated vis en than the 1. G. edulis. 
' Leaves broadly ovate. Geet, fäeg scarcely exceeding 
the calyx um 9. G. resinosa. 
ayz- limb wed ` to 6 linear obtuse lobes, rarely*tohering. Young 
oots pu 
Tra obovate o or rak under lj in. Fruits ue id - long . 8. G. pyriformis. 
aves b roadly ovate oF orbicular, 2 to 3 in. long. ts 14 to 2 
4. G. megasperma. 
"HEN 
Calyx-limb pent: truncate, with long subulate-acuminate teeth. 
e lo de Wi FE 
uite e Calyx-lin b without the teeth at least 4 lines long. 5. G. Macgillivrat. 
Foliage and flowers softly ‘cabins nt or villous. Calyx-limb with- 
out the tee i 
I oe rie ën - Leaves broadly o ate ECT 
ershrub. t S Darrow, o oblong . ec. os. Ta T ERE 
Cdp d dita ie the bas Fr ruit large. Plant E 
Ze ër 2 in. one vive, . 8. G. fucata. , 
o 4 in. lon 9. G. Jardine. 
Calya rios ib mister RA with short teeth. ` Corolla- tube 
short, broad ; lobes acute. Pericarp thin . 10. G. chartacea. 
We have also a s specimen of a distinct bescheet species, bus Mount Bremer, Cape 
York, W. Hill, but inunficient for descriptio 
edulis, 7. Muell. Fragm.i.54. A small tree, rires glabrous, 
the young shoots 1 resinous. Leaves small, obovate or 0 wed in 
5 or 6, oval-oblong, rather shorter than the tube. Ova se: wit th We or CS 
lacentas. Fruit nearly globular, } to $ in. diameter, crowned by the 
mains the calyx-limb. 
pans river and between Flinders and Lynd river, the 
alia. « Breadíril- 
- " x Teichhardl, F. Muell. 
G. re esinosa, P. Muell. Fragm. i. 54. A small tree, quite UE 
the es shoots resinous. Leaves shortly petiolate, from broadly 9 
WEE, obtuse - both ends, cori UE earen ved and re yo zg 
ur specimens. Flowers aas d solitary or 9 V 
shortly We Wie C alyx-tube contracted at the top; limb tubular a 
anulate, $ to nearly l in. long, almost cartilaginous, 6-ribbed, $ : 
short connivent stigmatic lobes. ` Fruit t only seen young. 
N. Australia, Roc ocky hills, Victoria river, F. Mueller, Bynoe. Allied in wet 
spects to the Indian G. costata, Wall., but at once known by the shorter corolla- sii 
