RUBIACEAE 449 
6. GARDENIA Linnaeus 
Erect shrubs or trees, sometimes spiny. Leaves opposite. Flowers 
often large and showy, fragrant, white, axillary or terminal, solitary or 
fascicled. Calyx-tube truncate, toothed, or lobed, sometimes winged. 
Corolla-tube long or short, cylindric or narrowly funnel-shaped, the lobes 
5 to 12, spreading. Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes. Anthers linear, 
sessile. Ovary 1-celled; style stout, clavate, fusiform, or 2-cleft; ovules 
numerous on parietal placentae. Fruit ovoid, ellipsoid, or globose, coria- 
ceous or fleshy, many-seeded.. (In honor of A. Garden, an English 
physician.) : 
Species 60 or more, tropical and subtropical, about 5 in the Philippines. 
*1. G. FLorRIDA L. Rosal (Sp.-Fil.). 
A glabrous, unarmed shrub usually about 1 m high. Leaves elliptic- 
ovate, narrowed at both ends, usually acute, shining, short-petioled, 2 to 
6 cm long. Flowers large, very fragrant, solitary ‘in the upper axils. 
Calyx green, the tube funnel-shaped, about 1.5 em long, 5-angled or winged, 
the lobes linear, about as long as the tube. Corolla usually double, white, 
soon turning yellowish, about 5 cm long, 5 to 7em wide. (FI. Filip. pl. 154.) 
Commonly cultivated for its fragrant flowers, fl. June-Dec. A native 
of China and Japan, now widely cultivated in warm and tropical countries. 
7. RANDIA Linnaeus 
Shrubs or trees, sometimes climbing, often spiny. Leaves opposite, with 
one sometimes arrested; stipules short, free or connate. Inflorescence va- 
rious, axillary, leaf-opposed, or terminal, the flowers sometimes solitary. 
Calyx-tube various, the limb often tubular, the lobes short or long, often 
leafy. Corolla funnel-shaped to bell-shaped, the tube long or short, throat 
glabrous or hairy; lobes 5, twisted in bud. Stamens 5, alternating with 
the lobes. Ovary 2-celled, rarely with 3 or 4 cells; style short or elongated; 
stigma usually fusiform; ovules many. Fruit fleshy, globose to ellipsoid, 
2-celled, many-seeded. (In honor of Isaac Rand.) 
Species 100 or more, all tropical, about 14 in the Philippines. 
Gees MOWeEs’ Helier yd ee 1. R. spinosa 
Unarmed} Bowers cCymose:<..)2-.... ele A. 2. R. cumingiana 
*1. R. SPINOSA (Thunb.) Blume (R. dumetorum Lam.). 
An erect, branched shrub or small tree, up to 4 m in height, the branch- 
lets pubescent, the branches armed with straight, sharp, often stout, spread- 
ing spines 1 to 1.5 cm long. Leaves obovate to oblong-obovate, glabrous 
or nearly so, 3 to 10 cm long. Flowers solitary, terminal, the calyx 
green, pubescent, cylindric, its lobes ovate, spreading, 5 mm long. Corolla 
white, soon turning yellowish, its tube about as long as the calyx, limb 
spreading, 1.5 to 1.8 cm in diameter. Fruit globose or ovoid, 1.5 to 2 
cm long, many-seeded. 
Cultivated, Singalon, fl. Feb., and probably in other months; of recent 
introduction here. -Widely distributed in tropical Africa, Asia, and Ma- 
laya, often, perhaps, only cultivated. 
2. R. cumingiana Vid. 
A glabrous unarmed shrub or small tree 3 to 6 m high. Leaves oblong- 
ovate, acuminate, base acute, 6 to 11 em long. Cymes axillary, about 3 
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