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large, the tube being above 3 inches long and the border above 4 

 inches diameter, salver - shaped, 5 -parted ; calycine segments 

 resiniferous, caducous, white, sweet-scented. Anthers 5, sessile, 

 completely within the mouth of the tube. Native of the 

 mountainous parts of India; from those of Chittagong it was 

 introduced to the Botanic Garden of Calcutta. The berry of this 

 species is yellow^ and contains a soft and rather fetid pulp. 



G. cmrjiistifolia, Loddiges Bot. Cab., t. 512. A shrub of 3 feet in 

 height ; very like G. Florida, from wdiich it chiefly differs in being 

 smaller and having narrower leaves. Flowers wliite, sweet- 

 scented. 



G. tomentosa, D.C., Prodr., iv., p. 379. An unarmed shrub, 

 native of Java. Branchlets, leaves and calyces clothed with 

 velvety tomentum ; leaves obovate-cuniated. Flowers terminal, 

 sessile, solitary ; tube of calyx angularly ribbed : calycine teeth 10. 

 Lobes of corolla 10, obovate-oblong ; tube hardly longer than the 

 calyx. Flowers white, sweet scented. 



G. carinata, Wallich, in Eoxb., Fl. Ind., ii., p. 560. Griffith, 

 Notul., iv., p. 261 ; Tcones, PI. Asiat., t. 474, f. 3. Arborescent, 

 unarmed, resinous in the younger parts ; leaves, elliptic-obovate, 

 ribbed, villous beneath. Flowers terminal, solitary, smaller than 

 those of G. costata, at first snow-white, but afterwards yellow, 

 becoming when dry of a beautiful orange colour. Limb of calyx 

 truncate, broad, obscurely 5-lobed and 2-ls-eeled; tube of corolla very 

 long; limb 6- to 8-lobed. Fruit precisely as in G. costata. Native of 

 Penang, where it grows on the Hills. 



G. coronaria, Symes' Embassy in Ava, iii., p. 307, t. 22. Kurz., 

 For. FL, ii., p. 43. A deciduous tree 25 to 30 feet ; branches stout, 

 youngest hairy. Buds resinous. Leaves 6 inches to 12 inches in 

 length by 3 inches to 5 inches in width, sub-sessile, obovate, shortly 

 acuminate, shining above, glabrous or pubescent beneath, nerves 

 about 20 pairs, stipules J inch. Flowers, sub-sessile, terminal, 

 white changing to yellow, fragrant. Corolla 5-lobed, tube 2 

 to 4 inches. 



G. grandifiora, Loureiro, Flora Cochin-Chinensis. Blume, Bijdr., 

 p. 1013. A medium sized, unarmed tree. Leaves lanceolate, 

 shining; flowers solitary, lateral and terminal, large, white, fragrant; 

 segments of calyx reflexedly-falcate; corolla salver-shaped, 6-parted. 

 Native of Cochin-China, on the banks of rivers. 



