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brown, the lower paler ; upper surface dark-brown when dry, the nerves 

 invisible ; the lower pale-brown, the main-nerves 6 or 7 pairs, very dis- 

 tinct, curved, interarching at some distance from the edge, the reticula- 

 tions rather distinct ; length 3 to 5 in. ; breadth r4 to 2 in. ; petioles '1 to 

 •2 in. ; stipules triangular, acuminate. Flowers 1 in, long, on very short 

 pedicels, solitary or in pairs from short branches which ultimately be- 

 come spines. Calyx tubular, '35 in. long, contracted at the base, the 

 mouth with 5 narrowly triangular short teeth. Corolla salver-shaped ; 

 the tube '45 in. long and nearly "2 in. wide, the limb "75 in. across with 

 6 or 6 oblong blunt lobes. Anthers linear, subsessile at the base of the tube, 

 about "3 in. long. Style short, stout, shorter than the cylindric stigma. 

 Fruit globular, smooth, surmounted by the short scar of the calyx, 1*75 

 in. in diam. ; pericarp very thick ; seeds ellipsoid, compressed, '25 in. long. 



Pekak : King's Collector 7450, 8356. 



11. Randia fasciculata, do. Prod. IV. 386. A much-branched 

 armed shrub ; young branches thicker than a crow-quill, rough from 

 small tubercles and softly and minutely pubescent. Leaves membranous, 

 lanceolate, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, shoi-tly acuminate (often bluntly 

 so), rounded or cuneate at the base ; both surfaces olivaceous, the upper 

 usually glabrous or nearly so, the lower paler, minutely pubescent usual- 

 ly on the midrib aud nerves only but sometimes on the spaces between ; 

 main-nerves 4 to 6 pairs, slightly curved, ascending, distinct on the lower 

 surface, almost obsolete on the upper ; length "75 to 3 in. ; breadth '5 to 

 15 in. ; petioles '05 to '2 in., pubescent; stipules broadly triangular, 

 much acuminate, about as long as the petioles ; spines axillary, 

 slender, straight, ascending, slightly longer than the petioles, (some- 

 times absent). Flowers 1*5 to 2 in. long, axillary (under 1 in. in 

 var. parviflora) solitary or in fascicles of 2 or 3, bracteoles lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, hairy. Calyx "35 in. long ; the tube narrowly funnel- 

 shaped, villous, the mouth with 6 narrow subulate teeth as long as the 

 tube. Corolla salver-shaped, the tube nearly 1 in. long, about '05 in. in 

 diam., glabrous outside, pubescent inside ; limb nearly 1 in. across with 

 6 deep elliptic to oblong-elliptic, obtuse or sub-acute lobes. Anthers 

 half-exserted from the throat, linear, not apiculate, "3 in. long. Style 

 slender ; stigma exserted, with 2 short broad ovate blunt lobes. Fruit 

 pisiform, 2-celled,4-seeded, sparsely pubescent, crowned by the long-tooth- 

 ed calyx-tube. Brandis For. Flora 273 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 109 

 B. rigida, DC. I.e. jB. malaharica, Wall. Cat. 8255 A. B. C. D. Gardenia 

 fasciculata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 15. G. rigida and G. parviflora, Wall. 

 Cat. 8257 A. B. Posoqiieria fasiculata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1717. P. rigida, 

 Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 570. Webera fasciculata, 

 Kurz For. Flora Burm. 11. 49. 



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