462 LXix. RUBIACE^. [Gardenia 



of its flowers being completely 10-parted, and on this account 

 Welwitsch regarded it as the type of a new genus allied to Gardenia ; 

 the decamerous structure of the flowers applies not only to the parts 

 of the calyx and corolla and to the number of stamens, but it extends 

 equally to the stigma, and the ovary usually shows ten divisions, 

 though in some flowers the number of cells varies from 8 to 11 ; in 

 ripening the germen permits the walls of the cells to be absorbed, thus 

 becoming unilocular in fruit. 



2. G. tigrina Welw. ms. in Herb. 



A small tree, 15 to 20 ft. high in the primitive forests or 8 

 to 12 ft. in secondary woods; woods hard; head bi-oad, leafy; 

 branches slender, glabrate, sub-terete, dark-green, spreading 

 horizontally ; branchlets usually dichotomous, spreading irregu- 

 larly, thinly pubescent or nearly glabrous, somewhat angular, 

 leafy ; buds pubescent ; leaves opposite or ternate, elliptical, more 

 or less acuminate at the apex, wedge-shaped or unequally obtuse at 

 the base, thinly coriaceovis, almost membranous, but little glossy 

 above, glabrate or scattered with short adpressed pallid hairs, 

 obscurely green or deep-green above, rather paler beneath with 

 yellowish nerves, 3 to 6 in. long by 1 to 2| in. wide ; lateral veins 

 4 to 7 on each side of the midrib, slender ; petiole g to | in. long ; 

 stipules cuspidate, equalling or rather shorter than the petiole, 

 deciduous ; flowers erect, like those of Iluernia in shape colour 

 and sub-cadaverous odour (this odour being especially strong 

 shortly after the perfection of the flower), about 3 in. long when 

 expanded, about 4 in. long just before the spreading of the 

 corolla, axillary and subterminal, solitary, very shortly pedun- 

 culate, bracteate ; bracts small, like the stipules; calyx pubescent 

 outside, turbinate at the inferior base, the limb superior, tubular- 

 cylindrical-cupshaped, | in. long, lined with long dense adpressed 

 hairs inside, unequally 2- or 3-cleft at the apex, tipped with 4 or 

 .5 elongated unequal pubescent subulate teeth ranging up to | in. 

 long ; corolla of a pale-sulphur colour, spotted with red outside 

 and more densely so inside, very handsome, badly scented, shortly 

 hairy outside, elongate-funnel-shaped, narrowly sub-cylindrical 

 and hairy inside in the lower half of the tube, funnel-shaped and 

 glabrous inside in the upper half ; limb 5-partite, spreading or 

 reflexed, about an inch long ; segments ovate, acuminate, acute, 

 closely and shortly hairy on both faces except near the base inside, 

 sinistrorsely contorted (as seen from above) in the bud ; anthers .5, 

 about I in. long, linear, glabrous, half exserted, inserted on very 

 short filaments a little below the glabrous throat of the corolla, 

 dorsifixed at a point one-third above the base ; style rather 

 exceeding 3 in. long, exserted, glabrous or nearly so, subclavate 

 and lobed or lined at the apex ; ovary unilocular ; fr. (not ripe) 

 as large as a pigeon's egg, or even as a good-sized hen's egg, 

 ellipsoidal, more or less 6- or 7-ribbed, skin green, here and there 

 covered with coriaceous-crustaceous points, ifilled with a beautifully 

 orange-coloured pulp, which surrounds the seeds, is highly 

 astringent and stains the fingers dull blue. 



