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4171. Perak: Wray 1276, 2994; Kivg's Collector 2955, 6725,6589.— 

 DiSTRiB. Sumatra, 



25. Randia, LinD, 



Shrubs or trees, unarmed or with axillary or supra-axillary spines. 

 Leaves usually coriaceous, sometimes oue of a pair larger than the other 

 or absent ; stipules short, free or connate. Flowers in axillary or (where 

 one leaf of a pair has aborted) leaf-opposed cymes, or solitary or in 

 fascicles ov corymbs, rarely terminal, usually -white or yellowish. Calyx- 

 tube ovoid, obovoid, or turbinate, smooth or ribbed ; the limb often tubular, 

 truncate or vai-iously lobed. Corolla funnel- or salver-shaped or campa- 

 nulate, the throat glabrous or hairy ; limb with usually not more than 5 

 short or long lobes twisted in bud. Stamens 5 ; anthers narrow with short 

 filaments or sessile. JDisk annular or cushion-like. Ovary 2- rarely 4- 

 celled ; style usually stout sub-fusiform ; stigma usually fusiform or cla- 

 vate, entire or bifid ; ovules usually numerous, sunk in placentas at- 

 tached to the septum. Fruit more or less baccate, ovate, ellipsoid or 

 gtobose, 2-celled, many-seeded. Seeds usually immersed in pulp ; testa 

 thin, albumen horny, cotyledons orbicular. — Distrib. Species about 

 90, all tropical. 



Flowers under "5 in, long, in small fascicles or cymes 

 less than 1 in. in diam., or solitary ; corolla with a very 

 short tube, almost rotate ; leaves of the pairs equal in 

 size : — 



Armed erect shrubs with stout straight spines. 



Flowers "4 in. long, solitary or in fascicles Of 2 or 3 ... 1. B. dumetorum. 



Unarmed : — 



Erect or scandent ; flowers '5 in. long, tube short, 



lobes long, calyx 4-toothed ; corolla 4-lobed, its 



tube hairy within ; anthers linear, sessile j ovary 



with 4 placentas 5 fruit not ridged ; main-nerves 



of leaves 10 to 12 pairs ... ... 



Scandent ; flowers '3 to '35 in, long ; calyx 5- or 



6-toothed ; corolla 5- or 6-toothed, its tube 



glabrous within ; anthers broadly ovate, apiculate 



with filaments as long as themselves 5 ovary 



with 2 placentas ; fruit with 10 to 12 vertical 



ridges ; main-nerves of leaves 7 or 8 pairs ... 



Flowers under 1 in. long, in short much-branched many- 

 flowered cymes from the axils of fallen leaves j corolla 

 salver-shaped ; leaves of the pairs equal in size j fruit like 

 a pepper-corn (unknown in No. 6) : — 

 Scandent, glabrous : — 

 Unarmed i^ 



Leaves on short petioles or sub-sessile, their bases 



slightly oblique and auricled, main-nerves 6 to 8 



2. B. binata. 



3. B, impresninervis. 



