RUBIACEAE 



825 



12-15 mm. long, the lobes short, yellow-vilious inside near 

 base; fruit purple-black, ellipsoidal, 8-10 mm. long. Kyu- 

 shu (Yakushima). Ryukyus and Formosa. 



2. Mussaenda shikokiana Makino. Hiro-ha-konron- 

 KA. Deciduous shrub, prominently short-pilose on inflores- 

 cence and young vegetative parts, the branches brownish; 

 leaves thin, broadly ovate or broadly elliptic, abruptly acute to 

 cuspidate, rounded and decurrent to a winged petiole or 

 acuminate at base, with 7-10 pairs of lateral nerves, the peti- 



oles 1-5 cm. long; stipules 2 at the node, ovate-deltoid, cadu- 

 cous, 8-10 mm. long; inflorescence rather many-flowered; 

 calyx-lobes thin, lanceolate or broadly so, 7-10 mm. long, 

 acuminate, as long as to slightly shorter than the bract, the 

 petaloid lobe ovate-orbicular or broadly ovate, whitish, 3-5 

 cm. long; corolla 13-15 mm. long, densely white-villous exter- 

 nally, the lobes short, acuminate; fruit ellipsoidal, 8-10 mm. 

 long. May-July. Honshu (Kii Prov.), Shikoku, Kyushu. 



6. TARENNA Gaertn. 



Gyokushin-ka Zoku 



Trees or shrubs; leaves opposite, petiolate, stipulate; flowers in terminal cymes, the pedicels usually ebracteolate; calyx 5(4-6)- 

 toothed; corolla hypocrateriform or infundibuliform, the lobes contorted in bud; filaments short or nearly absent; ovary 2-locular, 

 few- to many-ovuled in each locule; style elongate, usually exserted, the stigma fusiform or slender; berry coriaceous or 



fleshy, 2-locular, with 1 to many seeds in each locule; seeds with fleshy or cartilaginous endosperm. More than 40 species, 



mainly in the Tropics of Asia, Africa, and the Pacific Islands, few in Australia. 



1. Tarenna gyokushinkwa Ohwi. Webera corymbosa 

 sensu auct. Japon., non Willd.; Chomelia corymbosa sensu 

 auct. Japon., non K. Schum.; T. zeylanica sensu auct. Japon., 



non Gaertn. Gyokushin-ka. Large evergreen shrub, 



blackish when dry; young branchlets, underside of leaves on 

 nerves, petioles, and inflorescence short appressed-pilose; 

 branches of 2d year gray-brown; leaves chartaceous or thinly 

 herbaceous, oblong, 10-15 cm. long, 4-7 cm. wide, short- 

 acuminate or acute at both ends, deep green above, the peti- 



oles 1-2 cm. long; stipules 4, connate into 2 ovate-deltoid lobes 

 about 5 mm. long; inflorescence terminal, many-flowered, with 

 small deltoid bracts, the pedicels 1-1.5 cm. long; flowers white; 

 calyx short-toothed; corolla hypocrateriform, the tube about 3 

 mm. long, the lobes 5, spreading, oblanceolate, about 1 cm. 

 long; anthers linear, elongate, on very short filaments; fruit 



broadly ellipsoidal, about 1 cm. long, 4-seeded. June-Aug. 



Kyushu. Ryukyus and Formosa. 



7. RANDIA L. 



MisAO-NO-Ki Zoku 



Trees or shrubs, sometimes scandent, sometimes with spines; leaves usually coriaceous, opposite, often reduced and scalelike 

 in those subtending the inflorescence branches; stipules often connate at base; flowers large, axillary, solitary or in cymes or 

 fascicles, very rarely terminal, white or yellowish, rarely reddish; calyx-limb truncate or toothed, the lobes rarely leaflike; 

 corolla hypocrateriform, infundibuliform or campanulate, the lobes 4 or 5, contorted in bud; ovary 2(-4)-locular; style rather 



thick, with a clavate or bifid stigma; berry 2-locular, many-seeded. More than 150 species, in the Tropics, abundant in Asia 



and Africa. 



1. Bandia cochinchinensis (Lour.) Merr. Aidia co- 

 chinchinensis Lour.; Stylocoryne racemosa Cav.; Webera den- 

 siflora Wall.; R. densiflora (Wall.) Benth.; R. racemosa (Cav.) 



F. Vill.; R. nipponensis Makino Misao-no-ki. Small 



evergreen unarmed glabrous tree; leaves rather coriaceous, 

 lustrous, oblong to broadly lanceolate, 7-12(-15) cm. long, 

 2.5-5 cm. wide, acuminate, acute at base, with 4-6 pairs of 

 lateral nerves, young leaves beneath with a few hairs in axil- 

 lary tufts, the petioles about 1 cm. long; stipules 2, deltoid, 5-7 



mm. long, long-cuspidate, deciduous; inflorescence a rather 

 many-flowered nearly sessile cyme, the bracts narrowly deltoid, 

 small, minutely ciliolate, the pedicels short; calyx small; corolla 

 yellow, the tube short, the lobes 4, reflexed, narrowly oblong, 

 7-8 mm. long, as long as the anthers; stigma elongate, entire; 

 fruit globose, 6-7 mm. across, black when mature. May- 

 June. Honshu (Kii Prov.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Ryukyus, 



Formosa, China, Malaysia, India, and Australia. 



8. GARDENIA L. 



KucHi-NAsHi Zoku 



Rarely spiny shrubs or trees; leaves opposite, rarely ternate; flowers axillary, soUtary, white or yellow; calyx-limb tubular, 

 bracdike, or lobed, usually persistent; corolla hypocrateriform, campanulate, or infundibuliform, the tube longer than the calyx, 

 the limb 5- to 9-fid, the lobes contorted in bud; ovary 1-locular or falsely 2-locular; style thick, more so above, entire or bifid; 

 ovules many; fruit sessile, many seeded. About 100 species, of wide distribution in the Tropics and subtropics. 



1. Gardenia jasminoides Ellis. G. florida L. Korin- 



KucHi-NASHi. Branched evergreen shrub, thinly furfura- 

 ceous on young branchlets; leaves broadly lanceolate, nar- 

 rowly oblong, or broadly rhombic-oblanceolate, 6-12 cm. long, 

 1.5-4 cm. wide, attenuate, acute with an obtuse tip, deep 

 green above, glabrous, short-petiolate; stipules deciduous, 

 bractlike, connate at base; flowers solitary, short-pedicelled; 

 calyx-lobes broadly linear, 1-2 cm. long, laterally compressed, 

 as long as to longer than the tube, persistent; corolla white. 



hypocrateriform, the tube about 3 cm. long, the lobes 6 or 7, 

 spreading, broadly oblanceolate, 2.5-3 cm. long; anthers linear; 

 fruit obovoid or oblong, 1.5-2.5 cm. in diameter. June- 

 July. Kyushu; variable. Forma grandiflora (Lour.) Ma- 

 kino. G. grandiflora Lour.; G. florida var. grandiflora 



(Lour.) Fr. & Sav. Kuchi-nashi. Flowers larger, with 



broader corolla-lobes. Spontaneous in Honshu (Suruga 



Prov. and wcstw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Ryukyus, Formosa, 



and China. Much planted in our gardens. 



