9. Randia. ] 84. EUBIACEJE. 1.10- Gaedenia. 



Valleys ; Singbhum, • Manbhum, Hazaribagh, Palamau, Santal 

 Parganahs ; not uncommon. Fls. May-July. Fr. Dec.-Feby. DeciduonB. 

 Feby. -April. L. turn colour Dec.-Jany. 



Sometimes thorny. L. obtuse narrowed into the short petiole. Fls. 

 dimorphic, large and sessile or small and peduncled, but many Eandiag 

 ▼ary considerably in these characters. Some flowers If have a peduncle 

 over V. The corolla of the large flower has a ring of hairs inside and a 

 fusiform 2-lobed stigma, that of the small form has a very short tube 

 glabrous within and an entire stigma. 



The frnit ia eaten and makes a good vegetable when cooked. 



10. Gardenia, L. 



1'rees or shrubs, armed with axillary thorns in a few 

 species. L. opp. or 3-nately whorled, or sometimes fascicled 

 in the thorny species. Fls. large or m.-s. usually solitary 

 axillary, more rarely fascicled or terminal, often dimorphic, 

 white, or turning yellow. Petals 5-12. St. as many, 

 anthers sub-sessile, linear, included. Ovary 1 -celled. Style 

 stout, stigma clavate or fusiform, sometimes 2-cleft. 

 Placent© 2-3, fruit a berry or drupe, many-seeded. 



A. Thorny. Small trees or shrubs. Pis. 



lj'' or less in diam. dimorphic. 



A tree. Corolla salver-shaped. Endocarp bony . 1. turgida. 

 Shrub. CoroLa-tube campanulate. Endocarp not 



b°ny .2. campanulata. 



B. Unarmed. Fls. 2-4^" diam. 



L. H-3|"« Usually a shrub . . . . 3. gummifera. 

 L. 4-10''. Usually a tree 4, latifolia. 



1. G. turgida, Boxb. Dudni, Durdi, K.\ Dnndukit', gf.j 

 Karhar, Kharw., Oraon ; Kharkar, Mai Pah ; Dhauuk, T. 



A straight erect small tree with white or pale-grey bark 

 and rigid branches armed with sharp straight thorns. L. 

 1-4" elliptic or nsually obovate, glabrous or pubescent 

 beneath, or (Var. ' montana) often orbicular and densely 

 tomentose beneath, 1-4" long. Male flowers sub-solitary or 

 fascicled, \~\" diam. ; female solitary, about f*-l* diam. 

 length of tube variable, fruit; large globose 1^-3'' diam. 



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