494 ODOROnifAPHIA. 



R. macrantha, D.C. Syn. llandia longijiora, Salisbury, 

 Paradisus Londinensis, t. 93. Gardenia longiflora, Ait. Hurt. Kew, 

 Ed. 2, i., p. 368. Gardenia rnacranthra, Kfpmer et Sclmltes syst., 

 v., p. 235. An unarmed shrub, 5 to 6 feet high. Leaves ovate- 

 obloncr, acuminated, rather ciliated. Flowers sessile, almost 

 terminal, 6 to 7 inches long, cream-coloured, fragrant ; o-parted : 

 lobes of calyx subulate, spreading. The long tube of the corolla 

 is dilated at the apex. The segments are revolute. Ovarium 2- 

 celled. Xative of Sierra Leone. 



it. tetrasperina, Hooker and Thomson, Flor. Brit. Tnd., iii., p. 

 109. Brand. For. FL, p. 272. Syn. Gardenia densa, "Wall., in 

 Piox. Fl. Ind. Ed., Carey and AVall., ii., p. 559. G. tetrasiJcrma et 

 densa, D.C. Prod., iv., p. 383. An erect rigid bush, 6 feet in 

 height, branches woody, spinescent. Bark rough. Leaves elliptic 

 or obovate, glabrous, narrowed into the short petiole : stipules 

 small, triangular-subulate. Flowers sub-solitary, sessile, greenish- 

 white, fragrant, \ inch in diameter ; calyx -tube terete, hardly pro- 

 duced above the ovary, corolla tube very short {\ of an inch long), 

 lobes oblong ; anthers exserted ; stigma spindle-shaped. Berry 

 "lobose, \ inch diameter, 4-seeded. Native of the sub-tropical 

 Himalaya, from Kashmir eastwards, ascending to between 4,000 

 and 6,000 feet in Kumaon, and to 7,000 feet in Sikkim and Bhotan. 

 It also occurs in Assam and Silhet. 



R. exaltata, Griff. Xotul., iv., p. 262. Kurz. For. Fl., ii., p. 46. 

 Syn. Gardenia pulcherrima, Kurz. in Journ. As. Soc, 1872, ii., p. 

 312 ; 1877, ii., p. 155 ; For. Flor., ii., p. 43. A glabrous, erect, 

 unarmed tree, 50 feet in height : trunk slender, branches with pale 

 bark, voungest compressed and pubescent. Leaves 4 to 7 inches 

 lonf^ by 2 to oh inches broad, coriaceous, elliptic or elliptic- 

 lanceolate, acute or sub-acute ; petiole short, stipules broadly 

 triangular. Cymes axillary or leaf-opposed, pubescent. Calyx 

 tomentose, teeth irregular. Corolla very large, white, sweet- 

 scented, 3 inches long ; tube short, limb inflated, IJ inches across 

 the broad ovate lol^es. Anthers slender, included. Style filiform. 

 Stio-ma included, clavate, 2-lobed. Berry globose, 1 to IJ inch 

 diameter, woody, many-seeded ; pericarp smooth. Seeds imbedded 

 in pulp, h inch across, much compressed, obtusely angled, smooth 

 or wrinkled. Xative of Tenasserim, Mergin in mangrove swamps 

 and Andaman Islands. 



