77. RUBIACE^. [12. Gardenia. 



II. Unarmed. Flowers 2-4'5" diam. Sec. n. strong- parallel. 



L. 1-5-3", subsessile, sec. n. 12-18. Fls. sessile . . .3. gummifera. 

 L, 4-8", petiole -S-'S", sec. n. 18-35. Fls. peduncled . . 4. Iv.cida. 

 L. 4-6", petiole "l", sec. n. 14-20. Fls. peduncled, lobes 



longer than the tube 5. florida. 



L. 6-10", subsessile, sec. n. 1-2. Fls. peduncled. lobes shorter 



than the tube 0. hit {folia. 



1. G. turgida, Roxh. Buniain, Th.; Dudni, Durdi, Duduri, K.; 



Karhar, Kharn-., TJran ; Dundiikit', S. ; Kliaikar, Mai. F. ; Dhauuk, 



H.; Kiirdu, Or. {teste Cooxter). 

 A straig'ht small tree with narrow crown and white or pale grey 

 rigid spreading branches armed Avith sharp straight thorns or some 

 branches thornless. Leaves 1-4", elliptic or usually obovate, glabrous 

 or pubescent beneath or (var. montana, Roxb.) often orbicular and 

 densely tomentose beneath. Fls. usually described as dimorphic and 

 1-sexual, but my specimens are 2-sexual (assuming that the pollen is 

 fertile), when 1-sexual males fascicled, female or hermaphrodite 

 flowers solitary apparently terminal, larger than the males with 

 ovary about '4" long, calyx Avith the small linear-subiilate teeth -25" 

 long, corolla-tube glabrous, "7" long, tubular, scarcely dilated up- 

 wards, petals "o" oblong, anthers 5-G (apparently perfect) linear 

 quite sessile attached by their back, included, style -35", stigma large 

 cylindric grooved with apex 2-lobulate. Fruit large, l"5-3" diam., 

 globose grey, with fleshy pericarp and thin Avoody endocarp Avith 5 

 placentae and densely packed Avith hard angular seeds. 



Abundant in dry forests, especially on slopes of clay and quartz-stones. Also 

 frequent in second-growth forest. ' Chiefly in the Central and Southern areas,, 

 rare in the Northern area. Fl. April-May. mostly Avhen leafless, but also at 

 other times. Fr. takes a year to ripen. Deciduous March-May. 



Bark white or pale-grey ; blaze with chlorophyll, then white Avith yellow specks, 

 then cream-coloured (on wood). L. subsessile or narrowed into a A'ery short petiole, 

 sec. n. about 5, of Avhich 1-2 close to base A'ery o))lique; stipules sheathing with 

 triangular caducous limb. The male calyx is described as only '17" A\-ith wide 

 truncate mouth and corolla-tul)e "S-'b". The linn. fl. has an annular SAVoUen disc 

 round base of style. 



The wood is close-grained and GamhJp says "'good," but except for temporary 

 purposes does not seem to V)e used. Gamble given Aveight as 56 lbs. Growth slow. 

 Innes says the fruit is boiled and eaten Avheii unripe, and when ripe becomes rather 

 poisonous (as in Eaindia dumefontm). 



2. G. campanulata, Roxh. 



A shrub, 15-20 ft. A\dth memliranous ell.-obovate or oblanceolate 

 leaves, l'o-3" narroAA-ed into the short petiole, glabrous. Male floAvei-s 

 fascicled under "o" diam., fern. fl. -S-o" Avith very short lobes, both 

 campanixlate. Fr. •7o-l'25" diam., ellipsoid or sub-globose. 



Recorded only b.A' Sir J. D. Hooker and Anderson from Parasnath in our area, and 

 perhaps extinct there as I haA-e not found it. It occurs however in the Sikkim 

 Tarai, and might therefore be found on the borders of Purneah. Fl. March.. 

 Fr. Nov. 



3. G. gummifera, L. f. Bururi, M. ; Burui, Ho. ; Brum, Bhumij ; 



Dekamali, If. ; Kurdu, Or. ; Gururu (Angul). 

 A handsome shrub, sometimes 12 ft. with sessile or sulj-sessile 

 shining oblong to obovate leaves lo-3", normally Avith a narrowly 



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