Eandia.~\ LXXV. KUBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 109 



fressed ; leaf at the node very small. Flowers subsessile. Calyx ^ in. long. Corolla 

 in. diam. Berries size of a pea. The inflorescence is that of Randia densijlora, to 

 which genus this might be reduced. 



46. RANDIA, Linn. 



Shrubs or trees, unarmed or spinous. Leaves opposite or with one often ar- 

 rested ; stipules short, intra-petiolar, free or connate. Floivers in axillary or 

 leaf-opposed cymes on solitary or fascicled or corymbose, rarely terminal, 

 white or yellowish. Calyx-tube various ; limb often tabular ; lobes short, long 

 or leafy. Corolla funnel- salver- or bell-shaped, tube long or short, throat 

 glabrous or hairy ; lobes 5, rarely more, short or long, twisted in bud. Stamens 

 -5 ; anthers subsessile, narrow. Disk annular or cushion-shaped. Ovary 2- 

 rarely 3-4-celled ; style short or slender, stigma usually fusiform, entire or 2- 

 fid; ovules usually numerous, sunk in placentas attached to the septum. Ber- 

 ries globose, ellipsoid or ovoid, 2-celled, many-seeded. Seeds often immersed in 

 pulp, angled, testa thin, albumen horny ; cotyledons orbicular. DISTRIB. Species 

 about 90, all tropical. 



SECT. I. Eurandia. Erect unarmed or spiuous shrubs. Flowers small or 

 moderate-sized, solitary or few and fascicled. Corolla tubular or funnel-shaped, 

 glabrous or nearly so. Berry small. Albumen uniform. 



1. R. tetrasperma, Roxb. FL Ind. i. 709 (Gardenia): branches spines- 

 cent, leaves elliptic or obovate glabrous, flowers subsolitary, calyx-tube terete 

 hardly produced above the ovary, corolla-tube very short, berry globose 4-seeded. 

 Brand,. For. Fl. 272. Gardenia densa, Wall. in Roxb. FL Ind. ed. Carey $ Wall. 

 ii. 559. G. tetrasperma and densa, DC. Prodr. iv. 381, 383. G. longispina, 

 Wall. Cat. 8277 D. partly. G. sp., Wall Cat. 8276, 8278, 8280, 8286. 



SALT RANGE and SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Kashmir eastwards, ascending to 

 4-6000 ft. in Kumaon and to 7000 ft. in Sikkim and Shotan. ASSAM. SILHET. 



An erect rigid bush, 6 ft. ; branches woody ; bark rough. Leaves towards the tips 

 of the branchlets, ^2 in., pale brown when dry, narrowed into the short petiole ; 

 stipules small, triangular-subulate. Flowers sessile, greenish-white, fragrant, \ in. 

 diam. Calyx-teeth subulate. Corolla-tube \ in. long; lobes oblong. Anthers exserted, 

 tip subulate. Stigma spindle-shaped. Berry % in. diam. 



2. R. fasciculata, DC. Prodr. iv. 386; spines axillary, leaves ovate elliptic 

 or lanceolate acute glabrous or slightly hairy, flowers fuscicled, calyx-tube terete 

 produced above the ovary, corolla-tube long slender, berry globose many-seeded. 

 Brand. For. Fl. 273. R rigida, DC. I, c. R malabarica, Watt. Cat. 8255 A. B. D. 

 Gardenia fasciculata, Roxb. Hort. Bena. 15. G. rigida and parviflora, Wall. Cat. 

 8257 A. B., 8256. Posoqueria fasciculata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 717. P. rigida, 

 Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey $ Wall. ii. 570. Webera fasciculata, Kurz 

 For. Fl. ii. 49. Eubiacea, Wall. Cat. 8283. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Nipal to Bhotan, ascending to 4000 ft. KHASIA MTS., 

 ASSAM, SILHET and TENASSERIM, Wallich, &c. 



A spreading shrub ; branches glabrous, hairy or tomentose ; bark smoothish. 

 Leaves 1-5 by -! in., pale when dry, base rounded or narrowed; petiole short; 

 stipules narrowly lanceolate. Calyx-limb produced after flowering, cylindric, circum- 

 sciss, glabrous or pubescent, teeth linear. Corolla white (yellow in Roxburgh's 

 drawing), fragrant ; tube ^-1| in.; limb -l in. diam. ; lobes oblong, apiculate. 

 Stigma large, fusiform, shortly exserted. Berry purple, size of a pea ; cells about 6- 

 see'ded. 



SECT. II. Ceriscus. Erect unarmed or spinous shrubs. Floica-s small or 

 moderate-sized, solitary or few and fascicled. Calyx-lobes broad, obtuse. Corolla 



