492 ODOROGKAPHIA. 



almost sessile, smooth, base rounded or narrowed, petiole short, 

 stipules narrowly lanceolate. Flowers fascicled, nearly sessile, 

 axillary and in forks at the branches; calyx hairy, with 5 subulate 

 lobes. Flowers white at first, but in the course of a few days 

 changing to a pale yellow colour ; fragrant ; segments of corolla 

 oblong ; stigma large, fusiform. Berry purple, size of a pea, cells 

 about 6 -seeded. iSTative of the tropical Himalaya, from Nepal to 

 Bhotan, ascending to 4000 feet, Khasia mountains, Assam, Silhet, 

 and Tenasserim. 



R. ryjida, D.C., Prodr., iv., p. 386. Syn., Posoqtceria rigida, 

 Eoxb., Fl. Ind., ii., p. 570. A strong, rigid shrub of 6 feet in height, 

 with tetragonal villous branches. Thorns opposite, super-axillary, 

 each having an annular joint, rarely tw^o above the middle, the 

 lower half downy, the upper smooth and shining. Leaves ovate, 

 smooth, in approximate fascicles, each ending in a cuspidate point. 

 Flowers by threes, axillary and almost terminal, white and 

 fragrant ; tube of corolla, long, slender. Berry purple, downy, 

 2-celled, many-seeded. Native of the valley of Xepal and the 

 surrounding- mountains, also at Xoakote. 



R. armata, D.C., Prodr., iv., p. 387. Syn., Musscenda spinosa, Lin., 

 Mantissas, p. 45, also Jacquin, Stirpium Americanarum Historia, 

 t. 49. Garde/Ilia armata, Swartz., Flor. Ind. Occ, p. 524; Gardenia 

 tetracantha, Lam. Die, ii., p. 609. A thorny shrub of 6 to 10 feet 

 high. Thorns 4 together at the tops of the branchlets, short and 

 spreading. Leaves ovate, acute at both ends, glabrous or downy. 

 Flowers pure white, fragrant, usually 4 on the tops of the 

 branchlets on short pedicels ; lobes of calyx linear-cuneiform ; 

 tube of corolla long, cylindrical, glabrous. Native of Carthagena, 

 Martinique, St. Lucia, &c., in woods. 



R. tetracantha, D.C., is very similar to the preceding, but has 

 flowers double the size. It is a native of Mexico, about Acapulco 

 and Piegiomonti. It is figured by Cavanilles, Icones Plantarum in 

 Hispania, v., p. 20, t. 435. 



R.ferox, IJ.C, Syn., Gardenia ferox, Chamisso and Schlechtendal 

 in Linntea, iv., p. 198. A shrub of 4 to 5 feet in height, with 

 decussate, spreading, acute thorns. Leaves ovate or oval, glabrous 

 above and pubescent beneath ; stipules pellucid. Flow^ers white, 

 fragrant, disposed in cymose fascicles ; tube of calyx turbinate. 



