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A. Iviujlfolia, Wall., are di- or triiuorpliic iu the matter of 

 stameus aud style, aud it may so be iu Scortechinii. In 

 that species the stamens are sessile in the base of the tube 

 and the style five armed. In this the stamens are in the tube 

 mouth aud the style arms two. The Scortechinii group 

 require careful study in the woods, but unfortunately they 

 are l>y no means common. 



118. Ukoi'HYLLUM trifuroum. Pears. 



Telom Camp. A large shrub, with large showy orange-coloured 

 fruits. 



ll'J. U. MACROPHYLLUM, Kovth. 



Forests at Telom. 

 120. Braohytome Scortechinii, Kimj and Gamble. 



Flowers small, Avhite. Telom on the banks of a stream above 

 the camp. 

 GrARDBNiA (§ Uardeniella), new section. 



DAvarf shrublets, little or not branched, unarmed, often pubes- 

 cent. Leaves opposite, stipules ovate, ending in slender 

 points. Flowers one to three on short peduncles from the 

 lower part of the stem beloAV the leaves (i.e., where the leaves 

 have fallen). Calyx tube cylindrie, slender, lobes very 

 narrow setaceous. Corolla tube elongate, gradually dilating 

 upwards, green or creamy yellow with red spots. Stamens 

 included, forming a cone round the style. Capsule elongate 

 cylindrie, narrow, pendulous, crowned with the narrow 

 linear sepals. Seeds numerous, minute, oblong, not fiatteu- 

 ed, pustulate. Species three. Malay Peninsula. 



The plants of this section are so utterly unlike those of a 

 typical Gardenia that were it not for a connecting link in 

 the form of Gardenia tentaculata, Hook, fil., one would 

 have no hesitation in proposing a new genus for them. The 

 plants have the habit of a Didy^nocarpus or Didissandra. 

 The flowers borne below the leaves, on the lower bare part of 

 the stem, are of fairly large size, yellow to green with piiik 

 streaks, gradually dilated upwards after tlie manner of 

 (r. Kotltni<(nniii, but much smaller. The stamens aud style 

 are those of a typical Gardenia, but the fruit is long slender 

 and cylindrie with innumerable dry seeds of a minute size, 

 rounded oblong, and pustulate. This form of seed is quite 

 chai'acteristic of the small half shrubby plants which grow on 

 the hill slopes in the Malay forests, such seeds being dispersed 

 by rain water. Gardenia tentacidata. Hook, fil., is a bush 

 Avhich grows in tidal mud, on most of our rivers, and is 

 referred to the section Bofhmannia by Hooker. It resembles 

 these hill plants, in its green red-spotted flowers borne 

 in the lower axils of the branches, the shape of the corolla 



