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?76 to 1'5 in. long, inflated-tnbular, the mouth oblique, irregularly 

 few-lobed. Corolla-tuhe cylindric, 3 to 3*5 in. long and about 'IS in* 

 in diam. when dry ; limb 2 5 to 3 in. across with 6 to 9 deep obovate- 

 elliptic, blunt lobes. Anthers inserted in the villous throat, linear, 

 •4 in. long, half-exserted. Fruit globular, not ridged, 1"5 in. in diam , 

 surmounted by the persistent tubular calyx- tube "75 to 1 in. long. 

 Randia speciosa, Hook. Ic. PI. t. 824. 



Singapore: Lohb. Peeak : Wray 4265; King's Collector 4<516, 

 5830,8736,10180. 



7. Gardenia Gripfithii, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 118. A large 

 shrub or small tree; young branches as thick as a goose-quill with pale 

 bark marked by the annular cicatrices of the stipules, glabi'ous. 

 Leaves thickly coriaceous, obovate-elliptic, cusplidate, much narrowed 

 to the short petiole ; upper surface olivaceous-brown, glabrous, shining, 

 with the reticulations transverse and depressed ; lower surface brown^ 

 puberulous especially on the stout midrib and 12 to 15 pairs of oblique 

 slightly curved distinct main-nerves; length 5 to 9 in.; breadth 2*5 

 to 4 in. ; petioles '3 to "4 in., stout, winged ; stipules '35 to '4 in. long, 

 with expanded irregularly toothed mouths. Flowers solitary, terminal 

 or axillary, sessile, 4 to 4*5 in, long. Galyx nearly as long as the 

 corolla-tube, coriaceous, tabular, expanding upwards, the mouth ir- 

 regularly toothed, undulate, oblique, '75 in. in diam., -glabrous. Gorolla 

 salvex'-shaped, the tube cylindric, much narrower than the calyx ; limb 

 3 in. across, with many lobes, imbricate in sestivation. Fruit woody, 

 globulai', when dry with slender vertical stinse, glabi'ous, 2 in. in 

 diara., crowned by the very long, persistent calyx. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 2821; Ridley 223; Derry 1045. Singa- 

 pore : iJicZZe?/ 6673 ; ZfitZZe^^ 611, 896. 



Var. Maingayi, Hook, fil, I.e. Mouth of the calyx irregularly cui 

 into triangular coriaceous teeth. , . 



Malacca: Maingay {K.B.) 8il. , 



27. Petunga, do. 



Glabrous shrubs or small trees with slender often 4-.angled branch- 

 es. Leaves petioled, narrowed to base and apex ; stipules triangular 

 or ovate-oblong. Floioers small, white, bi-bracteolate, in axillary 

 spikes. Calyx-tube campanulate, with a persistent 4-lobed limb. Gor- 

 olla funnel-shaped, its throat villous, the limb with 4 spreading lobes ; 

 lobes twisted in bud. Anthers 4, sub-sessile, linear, the connective 

 jthickened at the apex. Ovary 2-celled, but often incompletely so ; style 

 cylindric, with stoutly linear hairy stigmatic bx-anches ; ovules 2 to 8, 

 pendulous from the apex of each cell. Fruit small, 2-celled. Seedi 



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