114 LXXV. EUBIACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Eandia. 



14. R. anisophylla, Jack in Roxl. FL Ind. ed. Carey 8? Wall. ii. 561 ; 



softly villous or tomentose, erect, unarmed, leaves large obovate cuspidate pairs 

 unequal, cymes axillary villous, corolla silky, lobes equalling the tube, berry 

 woody ellipsoid tomentose many-seeded crowned with a tubular calyx-limb. 

 Gardenia? anisophylla, Wall. Cat. 8399; DC. Prodr. iv. 381. 



MALACCA, PEXANG, and SINGAPORE, Jack, &c. 



A small tree; branches robust, villous. Leaves 9-15 by 3^-5 in., pale brown, 

 variable as to pubescence, narrowed at the base; petiole short; stipules united into- 

 a villous 2-lipped tube bearded within. Cymes stoutly peduncled, many-flowered;, 

 bracts deciduous. Flowers pedicelled, white. Calyx ovoid, tomentose ; limb tubular, 

 silky within; teeth ovate-subulate, deciduous. Corolla coriaceous, -| in. diam.; 

 lobes oblong. Stigma fusiform. Berry 1-1^ in. long; pericarp thin with a woody 

 cndocarp. Seeds many, compressed, smooth. 



15. R. sikkimensis. Hook. f. ; pubescent, erect, shrubby, unarmed,, 

 leaves in unequal pairs elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate acuminate slightly pubescent 

 above more so beneath, cymes axillary tomentose, corolla densely silkily 

 tomentose, tube longer than the oblong lobes bearded within below the- 

 middle. 



Foot of the SIKKIM HIMALAYA; on dry hills below Kursiong, alt. 4000 ft., 

 J. D. H. 



A woody shmb; branches stout, leafy at the tips. Leaves brown when dry, 4-7 

 by 1^-2^ in., rather membranous, with scattered hairs above, tomentose especially on 

 the nerves beneath; petiole short, tomentose; stipules very broad, acute or cuspidate, 

 connate in a glabrous or hairy tube, or free. Cymes sessile ; branches erect, short, 

 bracts small, acute. Flowers pedicelled, erect. Calyx pubescent, funnel-shaped; 

 limb dilated, teeth subulate. Corolla 1 in. diam. ; tube nearly 1 in. long, very silky ; 

 lobes not half as long, obtuse, glabrous within ; mouth glabrous. Stigma clavate, 2- 

 lobed. Ovary 2-celled, many-ovuled ; ovules apparently not sunk in the placenta. 

 Specimens not numerous or good. 



SECT. VI. Gardenioides. An- unarmed tree. Floivers cymose. Calyx- 

 lobes small. Corolla-tube very short ; limb inflated, very large, 5-lobed. Berry 

 large, globose, with a woody rind, many-seeded. 



16. R. exaltata, Griff. Notul. iv. 262 ; glabrous, erect, unarmed, leaves- 

 elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate acute or subacute, cymes axillary or leaf-opposed 

 pubescent, corolla very large, tube short, limb inflated, berry large woody many- 

 seeded. Kurz For. FL ii. 46. Gardenia pulcherrima, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 

 1872, ii. 312 ; 1877, ii. 155; For. FL ii. 43. 



TKNASSERIM; Mergui, in Mangrove Swamps, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 2826). ANDA- 

 MAN ISLANDS, Kurz. 



A tree, 50 ft. ; trunk slender ; branches with pale bark, youngest compressed and 

 pubescent. Leaves 4-7 by 2-3 1, greenish when dry, coriaceous ; petiole short; sti- 

 pules broadly triangular. Cymes subsessile; branches stout, short, few-flowered. 

 Calyx tomentose; teeth triangular. Corolla white, sweet-scented, 3 in. long; limb 

 campanulate, 1^ in. across the broad ovate lobes ; throat naked. Anthers slender, in- 

 cluded. Style filiform ; stigma included, clavate, 2-lobed. Berry globose, 1-lA- in. 

 diam. ; pericarp smooth, very woody. Seeds imbedded in pulp, % in. across, much 

 compressed, obtusely angled, smooth or wrinkled. Griffith, and Kurz (copying him), 

 describes the leaves as unequal subrepand and pubescent at the nerve-axils beneath. 



SECT. VII. Euclinia. Unarmed erect shrubs. Leaves in equal pairs. 

 Flowers solitary or fascicled, axillary or terminal. Calyx-lobes very long. Corolla 

 large, funnel-shaped. 



17. R. macrophylla, Sr. in Wall. Cat. 8304 (Rothmannia) ; erect, 

 unarmed, I ranches and leaves beneath hispid or glabrate, leaves sukessile nai> 



