Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 205- 



Flowers 2 to 8 in. long, the corolla with a short cylindric 

 tube and inflated funnel-shaped limb ; fruit ovoid- 

 globular ... ... ... ... 15. R,exaltata. 



Flowers 4 to 5 in. long, funnel-shaped, 4 in. wide at 

 the month ; fruit narrowly ellipsoid crowned by the 

 long narrow calyx-teeth ... ... ... 16. R. macrophylla. 



Imperfectly known species ... ... ... 17. R. Kunstleri. 



1. Randia ddmetordm, Lara. 111. t. 156, f. 4. A shrub or small tree, 

 iinarmed or wifch straight horizontal opposite axillary or slightly supra- 

 axillary spines on the thin sub-quadrangular pale puberulons young 

 branches. Leaves membranous, oblong, oblong-oblanceolate or obovate- 

 lanoeolate, acute or sub-acute, narrowed to the base, both sui'faces glab- 

 rous, only the midrib always hairy and sometimes also the 6 or 7 pairs 

 of spreading faint main-nerves ; length 1'5 to 3*5 in. ; breadth '6 to 1"25 

 in. ; petioles "1 in. or less long ; stipules ovate, acuminate. Flaivers '4 in. 

 long, 1 to 3 together on a short minutely bracteolate peduncle, sub-sessile. 

 Calyx cylindric-campanulate, strigose outside ; the mouth with 5 broad 

 erect lobes varying from ovate to spathulate, often acute at the apex. 

 Corolla with a short wide tube constricted and hirsute below the wide 

 broadly 6-lobed limb. Anthers linear, sub-sessile, included within the vil- 

 lous throat. Style thick, stigma with 2 thick, short lobes hardly exserted. 

 Fruit globose or ovoid, obscurely ribbed, *75 to 1*5 in. long, glabrous or 

 pubescent, smooth, or obscurely ribbed, yellowish ; the pericarp thick. 

 Seeds numerous, small, oval, compressed, embedded in pulp. W. & A. 

 Prod. 397; Wight Ic. 580 ; Brand. For. Flora 273 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 

 226; Koord. & Valet. Bijdr. VIII. 96 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 110. B. 

 nutans, longispina, DC. and W. & A., Kui^z For. Fl. Burm. II. 45 ; Wight 

 Ic. 581, 582, 583 ; Miq. 1 c. 227. B. Bottleri, W. & A. I.e. B. stipulosa, 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 228. B. spinosa, Blume Bijdr. 981. B. malahanca, 

 Wall. Cat. 8255^. Gardenia nutans, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 15 ; Wall. Cat. 

 8290. G. spinosa, Linn. fil. G. longispina iind floribunda, Roxb. G. dtime- 

 torum, Retz. Roxb. Corom. pi. 1. 136 ; Wall. Cat. 8259. G. glabra and G, 

 propingua, Br. in Wall. Cat. 8258, 8260. Posoqueria dumetorum, P. nut- 

 ans, P. longispina, and P . floribunda, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 713 to 719. 



Langkawi : Curtis 2799. Kedah : C^irtis 2585. Ferak : Wray 2599 ; 

 King's Collector 3168, 6495 ; ScortecMni 95, 98, 175, 1017, 1933.— Dis- 

 TRIB. Java; Sumatra; British India. 



Var. pubescens, King & Gamble. Leaves more or less densely 

 pubescent on both surfaces ; spines sometimes "65 in. long ; fruit obpy- 

 riform. 



Kedah : Curtis 2585. Langkawi : Curtis 2799. 



2. Randia binata, King & Gamble n. sp. A shrub occasionally 

 scandent, glabrous, unarmed ; young branches thicker than a crow-quill, 



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