liamlid.'] LXXV. RUBIACO:. (J. D. Hooker.) Ill 



TKNASSERIM, MAHTABAX. aud PEGU, WaUicJi, &c. ; Heifer (Kew Distrib. 2823). 

 DISTRIB. Java. 



A largo shrub ; brandies very stout ; spines horizontal, 1-2 in., very stout. Leaves 

 brown when dry, 1-2 in., often subcuneate, coriaceoiis ; stipules triangular. Flowers 

 subsoli ta ry, subsessile, 1 in. diani. Calyx-teeth 5-10, linear > erect. Corolla-lobes 

 oblong- obovate, silky within. Stigma globose, 2-lobed. Berry broadly ellipsoid, 

 Ii If in. diam., velvetty, ribbed. 



SECT. III. Oxyceros. Climbing or erect, armed (or young shoots un- 

 armed) shrubs or trees. Flowers in shortly peduncled cymes. Corolla salver- 

 shaped, tube longer or (in R. malabarica} shorter than the limb, glabrous 

 externally. Berry small, about 8-seeded, the calyx-limb deciduous. 



6. II. znalabarica, Lanik. Diet. iii. 25 ; erect, glabrous, spines straight 

 or 0, leaves elliptic obovate or oblong, cymes short, flowers fascicled, corolla- 

 tube shorter than the lobes. Gardenia fragrans, Koen. ; Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 137 ; 

 Roth Nov. Sp. 150 ; Wall. Cat. 8267. Posoqueria fragrans, Koen. in Eoxb. FL 

 Ind. i. 717. Stylocoryne Paudaki and S. malabarica, DC. Prodr. iv. 377. 

 Griffithia fragrans, W. $ A. Prodr. 400 ; Wight Ic. t. 310. Oanthium parvi- 

 florum, Schlecht. in Herb. Hohen. Xo. 816. Gardenia sp. and Rubiacea, Wall. 

 Cat. 8281, 8287. 



WESTERN PENINSULA; on the hills, &c., from Canara southwards. CETLOX; not 

 uncommon up to 3000 ft., Worker, &c. 



An erect shrub ; young shoots unarmed, " as is the whole plant when growing in a 

 rich soil" (Roxb.). Leaves l-2 in., coriaceous, pale when dry; stipules small, trian- 

 gular. Cymes subsessile, glabrous or puberulous, few or many-flowered, with connate 

 triangular coriaceous bracts at the forks. Calyx-tube obconic, teeth minute. Corolla 

 ^-f in. diam. Stigma fusiform. Berry size of a pea, areole not raised. Seeds rough ; 

 albumen ruminated. Ceylon specimens have more elliptic leaves, looser cymes r 

 larger flowers and more acute buds. 



7. R. long-iflora, Lamb. Diet. iii. 26 ; III. t. 156,f. 3 ; climbing, glabrous, 

 spines short recurved or 0, leaves ovate elliptic or oblong, stipules broadly tri- 

 angular, cymes short, corolla-tube much longer than the lobes. DC. Prodr. iv. 

 386. R. scandenaj DC. I. c. 387. Posoqueria longiflora, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 718. 

 Grifiithia curvata, Kurz in Trhnen Jonrn. Bot. ] 87-"), 325. G. sianiensis, Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 158. Canthium recurvum and augulosum, Wall. Cat. 8284 r 

 8285. \Vobera scandeus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. C98. W. longiflora, bispiuosa, and 

 siameusis, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 48, 49. Tocoyena scandeus, Blume Bijtl. 980. 

 Gardenia patula, Horsf. in Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. ii. 232. Pseudixora javauica and 

 Zollingeriaua, Miq. 1. c. 210. Stylocoryne bispinosa, Griff. Not ill. iv. 260. 



AssA^r, Sn,HET, and KHASIA MTS., ascending to 2000 ft. ; common. CHITTAGONG, 

 and southwards to MALACCA and PENANG. ANDAMAN and NICOBAR ISLANDS. DisxKir. 

 Birma, Malay Islands. 



A large shrub. Leaves 2-8 by 1-3 in., pale or dark when dry, coriaceous, often 

 glandular at the nerve-axils beneath, Peduncles short or long, often from alternate 

 axils of reduced leaves ; cymes trichotomous ; bracts as in R. malabarica. Calyx 

 glabrous or puberulous, limb dilated, lobes triangular. Corolla white, then yellowish ; 

 tube i-l in. ; lobes | in. long, oblong. Stigma 2-fid. Berries globose, i-| in. diam., 

 obscurely ribbed ; areole flat or raised. Seeds rugose, imbedded in pulp ; albumen 

 ruminate. A very variable plant, especially in the length of the corolla, but I cannot 

 limit the varieties according to the definitions given to the species which I have here 

 included under R. longiflora. "Wallich's No. 8284 E. from Singapore (Finlayson) has 

 a calyx i in. long, with almost filiform lobes half as long as the tube, and quite unlike 

 those of any other variety. Others in Herb. Hooker and Bcntham both from Wallich, 

 with the ticket 8284 D. (Penang and Singapore) and 8284 C. (Silhet), but which are- 



