310 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



oppositifolious, the calyx wide cupular slightly dentate, and the lobes 

 of the corolla short funnel-shaped and rounded. 



Pelagodendron,^ a Banclia of the Viti isles whose gamosepalous 

 calyx breaks irr'egularly into two or three unequal lobes. 



Spliinctanthus,^ an American Genipa with terminal flowers, solitary 

 or few, the corolla of which is contracted towards the summit of its 

 rather short tube. 



Leptactinia,^ a Gardenia of tropical AMca whose flowers are united 

 in terminal corymbiform cymes, with the calycinal folioles developed 

 and wide stipules. Bictijandra,^ from the same country, differs 

 essentially only in its large flowers with sessile and locellate anthers, 

 and is to the true Leptactinia what Anomanthodia is to Randia proper.^ 



In New Caledonia are Genipas allied to Gardenia, whose ovary 

 becomes elongate and so narrow that the seeds are in a single 

 longitudinal series ; they are separated from each other by threads, 

 and the entire fruit in its form resembles some siliquas ; hence the 

 name Siliquorandia ^ given to this section. In other plants of the 

 same group, the seeds, not numerous, are elongated at one extremity 

 to a short wing, like that we have described in Olostyla, and the 

 flowers, very small, are grouped in glomerules in the axil of the leaves. 

 They have been named ParagenipaJ Randiella ^ also has very small 

 flowers springing from the wood of the branches. The style is dilated 

 above to a stigmatiferous sphere. They are from New Caledonia. 

 Other pecuHarities, more important still, characterize XijI author andia,^ 

 whose large flowers with funnel-shaped corolla, recalling those of 

 Amaralia and Gardenia Annce, grow from the wood of the branches. 



Thus defined, this very extensive genus ^° comprises about 



» Seem. Fl Vit. 124.— B. H. Gen. ii. 92, n. 174. e h. Bn. Adanmuia, xii. 210. 



2 Benth. Sook. Journ. Bot. iii. 212.— B. H. ^ H. Bn. Bull. Soc. Lwn. Par. 207. 

 Gen. ii. 84, n. 155.— Conosiphon Pcepp. Endl. Gen. « H. Bx. Adansonia, xii. 295. 



Suppl. ii. 54 ; Nov. Gen. et Spec. iii. 27, t. ^ The type of which is Randia Beccariana H. 



233. Bn". {Adansonia, xii. 246). 



3 Hook. f. Icon. t. 1092 {Leptactina) ; Gen. ii. i« Sect. 22 : 1. Eugenipa; 2. Gardenia (Ell.); 

 85, n. 160. — HiERN, Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 87. 3. Rothmannia (Thuxb.) ; 4. Mitriostigma 



4 Welw. ex B. H. Gen, ii. 85, n. 159. (Hochst.) ; 5. Griffithia (W. and Arx.); 6. Ran- 



5 We believe we may connect with the Lep- dia (Houst.) ; 7. Anomanthodia (H.f.) ; 8. Ba.<{a- 

 taetinia section of Oenipa, as an ahnormal type, nacnntha (H. f.) ; 9. Sphinctanthiis (Bth.) ; 10. 

 Heinsia, from the same country, which has been Cnsasia (Rich.) ; 11. Didyandra (Welw.) ; 12. 

 placed in another group, and which has the Leptactinia (H.f.); \Z? Eeinsia {J}G.) ; 14. To- 

 flowers oi Randia in terminal cymes, but the coyena (Aubl.) ; \5. Macrosphyra (H.f.); 16. 

 fruit of which finally becomes more or less dry Byrsophyllum (H.f.) ; 17. Brachytome (H.F.) ; 

 and unilocular. (pO. Prodr. iv. 390. — Exdl. \^. Pelagodendron{^'E-p.yL.); 19. Amaralia (y^i^vr.); 

 Qcn. 3300.— Hook. Bot. Hag. t. 4207.— B. H. 20. Xylauthorandia (H. Bn.); 21. Randiella (H. 

 Gen. ii. n. 137.) Bx.) ; 22. Genipella (H. Bx.). 



