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surrounded by the enlarged thickened incurved calyx-lobes, 2-celled, 2- 

 seeded. Distrib. — One or perhaps two species, both Malayan, 



Gardeniopsis longifolia, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. lY. 250 and 

 262. A small tree 10 or 12 feet high : young branches as thick as a 

 goose-quill, pale-brown. Leaves coriaceous, oblanceolate, gradually nar- 

 rowed, in their lower three-fourths, to the stout petiole ; main-nerves 15 

 to 20 pairs, slightly curved upwards and interarching '1 in. from the 

 slightly recurved edges, the intermediate nerves are numerous but fainter, 

 all prominent on the lower surface and depressed on the upper ; both 

 surfaces yellowish-brown, the lower paler and reticulate, length 6 to 1 6 

 in.; breadth l"o to 35 in.; petioles 3 to '6 in. long; stipules narrowly 

 lanceolate, acuminate, "4 to "5 in. long. Flowers sessile in clusters of 

 5 or 6; the calyx-tube about "1 in. long : the limb about '15 in. across, 

 its lobes ovate. Fruit "4 to '6 in. long, 



Malacca: Derry 960. Perak : ScortecUni 1234; Wray 2832, 3693; 

 King's Oollector 2361, 2850, 6934 ; Bidley 9722. Pahang : Bidley 2661. 

 Negri Sembilan : Ridley lOOSl. Distrib. — Sumatra. 



There is what appears to be a distinct species of this ia Borneo (Haviland 3011) 

 with longer narrower oalyx.lobes and fruit 1"25 in. long. 



38. Webera, Schreber. 



Trees or shrubs with thinly coriaceous or membranous leaves drying 

 black. Flowers in terminal paniculate cymes, usually on bi-bracteolate 

 pedicels. Calyx-tuhe campanulate or urceolate, the limb 5-toothed or 

 5-partite. Corolla cylindric or narrowly funnel-shaped ; its tube shorter, 

 equal to or longer than the lobes of the limb ; throat glabrous or with a 

 line of hairs ; limb 5-lobed, narrowly oblong, spreading or reflexed, 

 twisted in bud. Stamens 5, linear, inserted by short filaments on the 

 throat. Style short, usually pubescent ; stigma long, spindle-shaped or 

 ligulate, grooved, exserted. Ovary 2-celled, each cell with a single or 

 at most with 2 ovules. Fruit baccate, with little pulp, 2-celled ; each 

 cell with a single plano-convex seed often cupped on the plane surface : 

 testa various, albumen fleshy or horny ; embryo small, cotyledons leafy. 

 Distrib. — About 20 species, all tropical. 



The genas Webera, as understood in Hooker's Flora of British India, is compos- 

 ed of two sets of plants, one with 2 or more ovules in each cell of the ovary, the 

 other with only a single ovule in each. The former are, in that work, formed into 

 the section Euiuehera. In these Materials the same plants are described under the 

 geuus Stylocoryna of Cavanilles. By other authors they have been treated as a 

 genus either under the name of Tarenna, Gaertner or of Chomelia, Linn, (not of 

 Jacqnin and Vellosa). The species with single ovules in each cell are, in the Flora 

 of British India, grouped in a section named Pseudixora. Here they are treated 

 under the generic name Webtra. The two sections, Euwebera and Pseuidieora, are 

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