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9. chinensis, Carey MSS. 5 China. Fl. small, white, ia the evening be- 

 coming yellow, March and April ; fr. C. S. — Unarmed; young shoots 

 densely pubescent ; leaves opposite, one smaller than the other, cu- 

 neate-obovate, shortly apiculate, acute, membranous, along the nerves 

 puberulous, otherwise glabrous, (1-3 inches by \-\^ inch.) petioles 

 1-3 lines ; flowers axillary, solitary, short peduncled ; calyx adpressed- 

 ly hirtulous, tube cylindric, ecostate, as long as the tube of the corol, 

 lobes 4-5, oval, acute, nearly the size of the lobes of the corol ; limb 

 of the corol sericeous, 5-parted, with the lobes oval, obtuse, equal ; 

 anthers subsessile in the fissures of the corol, recurved ; stigma exsert, 

 equally bilamellate ; berry oval, (about 1 inch) slightly puberulous, 

 10-11 sulcate, 1-celled, many-seeded. 

 \O.Thunbergia, L. {fil. supp. p. 162;— B. M. To, t. \.OQA -—Roxb. H. 



B.p. 15 ^—DC. pr. 4, p. 382 ;— G. Don's Mill. diet. 3, p. 498 



Thunbergia capensis, Montin. — Gardenia verticillata. Lam. — G. crassi- 

 caulis, Salisb. Land. t. 46. — Bergkias, Sonner. it. nov. guin. t. 17, 18 ; 

 journ. phys. 3, p. 299, t. 3.) B C. G. H. Manilla. Fl. large, white, 

 fragrant, June, but very seldom ; fr. 0. 



11. Rothmannia, L. {fil. suppl. p. 165 ; — DC. pr. 1, p. 382 ; — G. Dons 

 Mill. diet. 3, p. 498 ;—B. M. 18, t. 690 \—Roxb. H. B. p. 15.— 

 Rothmannia capensis, Thunb.) B C. G. H. Fl. very large, white, 

 crimson-spotted, fragrant. Introduced into H. C. G. in 1799, but had 

 not fl. up to 1814, 



12. macrocarpa, Carey MSS. 5 Seeds received from Messrs, Loddiges and 

 Co., in 1822. Flowers very large, white, in the evening becoming 

 yellow, fragrant, April and May ; fr. C. S. Branches rigid, ash-co- 

 loured, powdery; branchlets tern, conform; leaves at the end of the 

 branchlets, tern or quatern, very short-petioled, from oblong to cune- 

 ute obovate, obtuse, undulate, firm, coriaceous, puberulous; {\\-3^ 

 inches, by ^-1^ inch) ; flowers solitary and sessile at the ends of the 

 branchlets, and at base surrounded with three, patent, elliptic, obtuse 

 glabrous, equal small floral leaflets ; calyx cylindric, rigid, (6 lines) 6 

 lineolate, puberulous, within adpressedly villous and glandularly dotted, 

 at the mouth 6-8 toothed; the teeth rigid, laterally compressed, pa- 

 tent, obliquely ovate, sharply mucronate, (2 lines ;) tube of the corol 

 incurvedly erect, rigid, terete, thick fleshy, within 6 lineolate and villous, 

 without obscurely 6-culcate and puberulous, from a narrowish base 

 widening gradually till its mouth is 7 lines in diameter, very long, 

 (3 inches) ; limb in 5-7 recurved, oblong, obtuse, fleshy, glabrous, 

 equal lacinia; (1-H ^^^^^ loi^g' ^Y 7-9 lines wide) ; filaments 6, pube- 

 scent, (1 line) inserted into the base of 6 oval foveolse on the inside of 

 the uppermost part of the corol-tube ; anthers inserted by the middle 

 of their back, erect, reaching to the mouth of the corol-tube ; stigma 

 clavate, at apex contortedly 6-lobulate, subexscrt. Drupe oval, {2\-'i 

 inches, by 1- If inch) at apex deeply umbilicated, externally ash-coloured. 



