110 LXXV. KUBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Randia*. 



campauulate, tube usually short, lobes broad reflexed. Berry large, many-seeded,, 

 crowned with the calyx-limb. 



3. It. ulig inosa, DC. Prodi: iv. 386 ; glabrous, spines short straight or 

 0, leaves obovate or oblong obtuse, flowers solitary white, calyx-tube terete, 

 corolla glabrous externally. W. 8? A. Prodr. 398 ; Wiyht Ic. t. 397 ; Dak. # 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 119; Brand. For. Fl. 273; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 44; Clarke in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. Sot. xvii. 161. Gardenia uliginosa, Retz Obs. ii. 14; Roxb. 

 Cor. PI. t. 135 ; Wall. Cat. 8295. ? G. pomifera, Watt. Cat. 8296 (an unarmed 

 specimen). Posoqueria uliginosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 712. 



Eastern, Central, and Southern India, not common northwards. SIKKIM, J. D. H. ; 

 ASSAM, Hamilton. DISTRIB. Ava (Gr. pomifera, Wall.). 



A small, usually very rigid tree, with thick woody 4-angled branches, and leaves 

 (except on young shoots) at the ends of the branchlets. Leaves 2-8 by 1-4 in., pale 

 when dry, narrowed into the short slender petiole ; stipules triangular. Flowers- 

 dimorphic, either large and sessile, or small and peduncled. Calyx-tube 1 in. ; lobes 

 rounded. Corolla of the large form 1 to nearly 2 in. diam. ; lobes rounded ; tube with 

 a ring of hairs within ; of the small form with a very short tube glabrous within. 

 Stigma fusiform, 2-lobed in the sessile-flowered, entire in the peduncled. Berry 2 in. 

 long, yellow, ellipsoid in the sessile-flowered, smaller in the peduncled-flowered. Seeds 

 compressed, smooth. Fruit sold in the markets, eatable. 



4. R. dumetorum, Lanik. HI. t. 156, f. 4 ; DC. Pt-odr. iv. 385 ; spines 

 stout straight, leaves obovate glabrous or pubescent, flowers solitary, calyx-tube 

 terete strigose, corolla hairy externally, berry many-seeded. W. $ A. Prod>\ 

 397 ; Wiyht Ic. t. 580 ; Date. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 119 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv., Anal. 

 Gen. t. xvi. f. 1 ; Brand. For. Fl. 273. * K. nutans, longispina and floribunda, 

 DC. # W. # A. ; Dalz. $ Gibs. 1. c. ; Kurz For. Fl. 45; Wight Ic. t. 581, 

 582, 583. K. Rottleri, W. # A. 1. c. R. stipulosa, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 

 228. R. spinosa, Blume Bijd. 981. R. malabarica, Wall. Cat. 8255 e. ? R. 

 tonientosa, W. # A. Prodr. 398 ; Wall. Cat. 8264 A. Gardenia nutans, Roxb. 

 Hvrt. Beny. 15; Wall. Cat. 8290. G. spinosa, Linn. fil. G. lougispina and 

 floribunda, Roxb. and others. G. dumetorum, Retz. ; Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 136 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 8259. G. stipularis, Eottl. S? Willd. ; DC. I. c. 38,3. G. glabra and 

 G. propinqua, Br. in Wall. Cat. 8258, 8260. G. latifolia, Schlecht in Herb. 

 Ilohcn. No. 861. Posoqueria dumetorum, P. nutans, P. longispina, and P. flori- 

 bunda, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 713 to 719. Ceriscus malabaricus, Gaertn. Fruct. i. t. 28. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA from Jamu eastwards, ascending to 4000 ft. in Sikkim; and 

 thence southwards to CHITTAGOXG, PEGU, MARTABAN, the WESTERN PENINSULA, and 

 CKYLON (not recorded from Assam, the Khasia Mts., Silhet, or the Eastern Peninsula). 

 DISTRIB. Java, Sumatra, S. China, E. trop. Africa. 



A small tree or rigid shrub ; spines horizontal, often long and strong. Leaves 1-2 

 in., glabrous or harshly or softly pubescent on one or both surfaces, obtuse or sub- 

 acute, narrowed into the short petiole ; stipules ovate, acuminate. Flowers rarely 2-3- 

 on a peduncle, subsessile, greenish yellow or white. Calyx strigose ; teetli veryVari- 

 able, sometimes spathulate. Corolla ^-| in. diam. ; lobes oval or oblong. Berry 

 globose or ovoid, -l in. long, glabrous or pubescent, smooth or obscurely ribbed,, 

 yellow, pericarp thick. Seeds compressed, imbedded in pulp. Wight and Arnott's 

 7?. tomentosa, of which very imperfect fruiting specimens only are known, is either a 

 form with leaves softly tomentose beneath, and a globose slightly ribbed peduncled 

 fruit, or a different species. 



r>. R. tomentosa, Blume in DC. Prodr. iv. 379 (Gardenia) ; spines very 

 long, shoots and leaves beneath densely velvetty, leaves obovate or orbicular 

 subacute pubescent above, calyx-tube ribbed and corolla velvetty, berry many- 

 seeded. Gardenia tomentosa, Wall. Cat. 8264 B. G. dasvcarpa/JTurs in Journ. 

 As. Soc. 1872, ii. 412. 



