602 I.XX. BUBTACE.^. 



pericarp thick ; endocarp woody, shining inside ; placentas 5 or 6. 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 190 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. U 

 (1898) p. 645 ; Watt, Dift. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 483. Gardenia montami 

 (sp.), Eoxb. Fl. Ind. v. 1 , p. 709 ; Wight, Icon. t. 577 ; Grab. Cat. p. 88 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 120. — Flowers: Apr.-Jvine. 



Balzell (without locality) in his Herbarium of Bombay Plants in Herb. Kew. ! 

 Dkccan: Poona districts, Wvodrowl S. M. CouNTuy : Belgaum, Ritchie, 1087'; 

 Dbarwar, TaU>ot. Kanaka : coninion in tbe N. Kaiiara jungles, Talbot. — Distkib. 

 India (Himalayas, Eehar, W. Peninsula). 



2. Gardenia lucida, Roxh. Hon. Benr/. (1814) p. 15. A large 



glabrous shrub or small tree reaching 20-25 ft. high ; bark smooth, 

 gre)' ; young shoots greyish-green, smooth, resinous. Leaves 2g-8 by 

 1-3 in., elliptic-oblong, subacute or shortly acuminate, base narrowed 

 into a short petiole ; main nerves 20-25 pairs, slender, prominent 

 beneath ; petioles somewhat obscure, about | in. long ; stipules large, 

 broadly ovate, acute, membranous. Flowers fragrant, axillary, solitary, 

 from the axils of the uppermost leaves near the ends of the branches ; 

 pedicels 5-5 in. long. Calyx | in. long, pubescent or toraentose ; teeth 

 g in. long, erect, lanceolate, subulate. Corolla lai'ge, at first pure white, 

 soon turning yellow; tube l|-2 in. long, slender, puberulous outside; 

 lobes 5, obovate, obtuse, I4 by | in., spreading, veined, glabrous. Fruit 

 ellipsoid or globose, |-1 in. in diam., smooth, marked with longitudinal 

 lines, ci'owued by the persistent calyx-limb ; pericarp thick, woody ; 

 placentas 2. The flowers open in the evening, soon turn from white to 

 yellow and die. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 115 ; Grab. Cat. p. 88 ; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. p. 120 ; Wight, Icon. t. 575 ; Bedd. For. Man. in Flor. Sylvat. 

 p. cxxxiv, t. 15, fig. 6; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 190; Woodr. ia 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 645 ; AVatt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, 

 p. 482. — Flowers : Mar .-June. Vern. Dikemdli. 



KoNKAN : Lambert !, Bahell !, Law ! ; Eleptanta, G-raTutm ; Kanlieri jungles, Graham. 

 S. M. Country : Graham; Belgaum, Talbot. Kanara : N. Kanara, Woodrow. — Distrib. 

 India (Birraa, Chittagong, W. Peninsula). 



This species is, as well as G. gummifera, one of tbe sources of the Dikemdli resin 

 ■which is much used by the natives in medicine. The resin, which has a most offensive 

 odor, is employed extensively to keep off flies from sores. See Watt, Diet. Econ. 

 Prod. 1. c. 



3. Gardenia latifolia, Alt. Hort. Kew. v. 1 (1789) p. 294 {^lot of 

 Roxb.). A small deciduous tree reaching 30 ft. high, with stiff divergent 

 branches forming a rounded head ; bark smooth, pale-grey, flaking off in 

 small round pieces ; young parts glabrous but coated with a resinous 

 exudation. Leaves opposite or 3-nately whorled, crowded towards the 

 ends of the branches, subsessile, 4-8 by 2|-6| in., broadly elliptic or 

 obovate, rounded or very shortly and obtusely acuminate at the apex, 

 apple-green above, paler beneath, glabrous or n)ore or less pubescent ; 

 main nerves 10-20 pairs ; stipules adnate to the base of the petiole, 

 connate, forming a thin truncate tube at first enclosing the young leaves, 

 but, after the fall of the leaf, separating at the base and forming a loose 

 ring round the stem. Flowers solitary or 2-nate, subsessile, white 

 changing to yellow, fragrant. Calyx |-1 in. long, densely pubescent ; 

 limb broadly tubular, slightly dilated at the apex; teeth 5-9, lanceolate- 

 subulate, unequal, recurved, and with ciliate margins. Corolla-tube 

 2 in. or more long, striate, densely pubescent outside ; lobes 5-9, 



