'Gardenia.'] LXXV. RUBIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 119 



flowers greenish polygauio-monoecioiis, <? fascicled pedicelled, $ sessile terminal, 



corolla velvety, tube very short and wide, fruit ovoid with a thick beak. Kurz 

 For. Fl. ii. 40. G. oxycarpa, Br. in Wall. Cat. 8261. 



PEGU and TENASSERLM, Wallich, Kurz. DISTRIB. Ava. 



A deciduous tree, 15-18 ft.; branches and spines very stout. Leaves very like 

 those of G. campamdata, base much produced and narrowed. Calyx of ? flask-shaped, 

 densely pubescent ; lobes foliaceous, obovate-oblong or orbicular, exceeding the vel- 

 vety corolla. Fruit 1| in. long; pericarp rough, thick, fleshy, with a thin shining 



endocarp and 5 ? placentas. 



13. Cr. erythroclada, Kurz in Jdiirn. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 311 ; For, Fl. 

 ii.40; branches red stout, spines short or 0, leaves connate obovate or suborbi- 

 cular pubescent or tomentose, flowers greenish polygamo-dioecious fascicled or 



<cymose pedicelled, $ solitary sessile, fruits dimorphic of the ^-herrnaph. smaller 

 .globose, of the <j>-hermaph. ovoid. 



PEGU; at Eangoon, McClelland. TENASSERIM and BIRMA, common in forests, Kurz. 

 DISTRIB. Ava. 



A small deciduous tree with very stout branches of a curious brick red colour, 

 .shortly pubescent, or the leaves at length glabrate. Leaves 4-10 in., often as broad as 

 long, rather rough to the touch ; petiole 1--2 in. ; stipules ovate, acute. Flowers 

 -densely tomentose, pedicels of <? very unequal. Calyx-lobes \ in. in flower, in fruit, 

 orbicular or broadly obovate. Fruits, the larger 2 in. long, broadly ovoid, obscurely 

 . angled ; pericarp 1^ in. thick, dense, with a crustaceous shining lining ; smaller globose, 

 size of a cherry ; placentas I think 2 only. Seeds small, black. 



SECT. III. Rothmannia. Shrubs, unarmed. Flowers axillary (in the 

 Indian species), solitary or fascicled ; calyx-teeth linear. Corolla inflated. 



14. Gr. tentaculata, Hook. ; branches slender pubescent, leaves elliptic- 

 lanceolate or oblanceolate caudate-acuminate membranous glabrous or puberulous 

 beneath, flowers axillary polygamous, calyx-lobes filiform flexuous, corolla carn- 

 panulate. 



MALACCA, Griffith, Maingay (Kew Distrib. 2810, 839); foot of Mount Ophir, 

 Lobb. 



A shrub, unarmed. Leaves 4-9 by 1^-2^ in., sessile or narrowed into a very short 

 .petiole, dark green when dry; stipules ovate, acute, connate. Flowers in fascicles of 

 3-6 ; pedicels |-|- in., narrowly campanulate ; limb dilated, with 5 spreading filiform 

 -curving pubescent teeth g f in. long. Corolla f in. long, glabrous; lobes ovate, ob- 

 tuse. . Fruit |-f in. long, broadly ellipsoid, crowned with the long tentacle-like calyx- 

 teeth, smooth ; pericarp thin, brittle, polished -within ; placentas 2. Seeds many, 

 compressed. 



DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



Gr. IXOBJEFOLIA, Br. in Wall. Cat. 8262 ; glabrous, unarmed, branches angled, leaves 

 4-7 by 1^-4 in. ovate- or linear-oblong obtuse very coriaceous narrowed to the base, 

 nerves 10"-12 pair very distant, petiole very short, fruit sessile broadly ovoid shortly 

 beaked by the calyx-tube If in. long smooth, pericarp very thick polished within, 

 placentas 2, seeds very broad and flat. Tavoy, Wallicli. Perhaps a Eandia. 



Gr. CALYCULATA, ~Roxb. Fl. Lid. i. 704; "arboreous, leaves petioled ovate acuminate 

 smooth, flowers terminal solitary sessile, germ involucolled, calycine segments ensi- 

 form, anthers within the swelling tube of the 5-cleft corolla.'' DC. Prodr. iv. 380 ; 

 W. # A. Prodr. 396. Native place uncertain, said to be brought from Hyderabad to 

 Madras, where Koxburgh saw it in a garden. " Probably G. latifolia," W. & A. 



Gr. ENNEANDRA, Koen. ; W. $ A. Prodr. 395 ; this differs from G. latifolia, Ait., in 

 the very short obtuse calyx-teeth, and in the thin pericarp of the fruit. Under Gr. 

 latifolia I have stated that Koxburgh's drawing and description of that plant differs 

 from Aiton's in these points, but without more materials it is impossible to say 

 -whether this is to be regarded as a specific distinction. 



