380 CINCHONACE^. 



rugose and powdery, tough, thick, (6-8 lines) fibrous, hgneous, inter- 

 nally cream-coloured, glabrous, nitid, 5-costate. Seeds OO immersed 

 in a fleshy, viscid, yellowish substance, ovate, biconvex. (2-2-|- lines 

 long.) Seems nearest allied to G. ternifolia, Thonn. 



IS.amoena, Sims. {B. M. 44, t. 1904 ;—B. Reg. 9. /. 735 ;— DC. pr. 

 4, p. 382 ;— G. Dons Mill. diet. 3, p. 498) B China. Fl. large, 

 white, having the lobes crimson on the outside during aestivation, March 

 and April. 



14. turgida, Roxb. {fl. ind. 1, /?. 711 ; ed. Carey, 2, p. 557 ^—DC. pr. 4, 

 p. 382;— G. Don's Mill. diet. 3, p. 498.) 5 Bhootan. Fl. largish, 

 white, fragrant, March and April ; fr. 0. 



Ib.campanulata, {fl. ind. 1, p. 710; ed. Carey, 2, p. 556; — DC. pr. 

 4, p. 383 ;— G. Dora's Mill. diet. 3, jj. 498.) 3 Chittagong. Fl. 

 largish, white, pale yellowish in the evening, March and April ; fr. 

 Nov. The fruit is used by the natives as a cathartic and anthelmin- 

 tic, and also to wash out stains in silk. (Roxb.) 

 ? 16. densa, Wall. {Roxb. fl. ind.; ed. Carey, 2, p. 559 ;— DC. pr. 4, p. 

 383;— G. Do7i's Mill. diet. 3, p. 499.) B Sheopoor in Nepal. Fl. 

 small, yellowish-white, fragrant. Has been introduced into H. C. G. 

 Fl. ? 



17. obtusifolia, Roxb. {H. B. p. 15.) B Pegu. Introduced into H. C. G. 

 in 1809, but had not fl. up to 1814. 



OxYANTnUS, DC. 



1. hirsutus, DC. B July 1840. 

 Randia, Houst. {DC. pr. 4, p. 384 ;— G. Don's Mill. diet. 3, p. 499 ; — 

 W.andA.pr.],p.396.) * 



1. latifolia. Lam. {Diet. 3, p. 24, ill. t. 156,/. I -—DC.pr. 4, p. 385 ;— 

 G. Don's Mill. diet. 3, p. 500.) ^R. aculeata, L — Gardenia aculeata, 

 ^it, — G. Randia, Svjz. ; — Roxb. H. B. p 15.) B Arid places among 

 bushes in the W. Indies. Fl. middle-sized, white, H. S. ; fr. C. S. 



2. dumetorum, Lam. {ill. t. 156, /. 4 ;—DC. pr. 4, p. 385 ; excl. syn. 

 Thunb. ;— G. Don's Mill. diet. 3, p. 500;— IF. and A. pr. \,p. 397; 



J. Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 89. — Canthium coronatum, Lam. — Gardenia 



dumetorum, Retz. ; — Roxb. Corom. 2, t. \36;H. B. p. 15. — G. spinosa, 

 L. ; not Thunb. nor Willd. — Posoqueria dumetorum, Roxb. fl. ind. 1, 

 p. 713 ; ed. Carey, 2, p. 564. — Ceriscus Malabaricus, Gdrtn. fr. I, p. 

 140, under Gardenia dumetorum, t. 28, f. 4.) B Coromandel. Very 

 common at Mahableshwur, along the Ghauts. Kennery jungles. Gu- 

 zerat. Deyra-Dhoon. Kheree Pass. Fl. small, white, April ; fr. C. S. 

 Fruit, when bruised, and thrown into jjonds, soon intoxicates the fish. 

 (Roxb.) Used as an emetic. An infusion of the bark of the root is 

 given in S. India as a nauseating medicine. {Roxb.) 



3. bngispina, DC. {pr. 4. p. 386;— <?. Don's Mill. diet. 3, p. 501 ; — 

 W. and A. pr. 1, p. 398;—./. Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 189.— Gardenia 



. longispina, Roxb. U. B, p. 15.— Posoqueria lorigispina, Roxb. fl. ind. 



