Randia.] RubictceCE. 329 



fruit a large 2-celled berry; seeds few, flattened, immersed in 

 pulp. — Sp. 2; the other one in S. India. 



B. ellipticum, Bedd. Forest. Man. 134-2 (1875 ?). 



Stylocoryne elliptica, Thvv. Enum. 421 and 154 (Coffeaf). C. P. 3482, 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 107. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 96 [Stylocoryne) (not good). 



A small tree, 10-12 ft., branchlets stout, marked with close 

 leaf-scars, young parts glabrous ; 1. closely placed, large, 4-9 

 in., oval, tapering to base, shortly and abruptly acuminate, 

 obtuse, quite glabrous on both sides, rather coriaceous, paler 

 beneath, lat.-veins inconspicuous, petiole about 1 in., stout, 

 stip. 1 in., oblong, acuminate, glabrous, deciduous; fl. few, 

 large, in sessile, trichotomous, terminal cymes, ped. stout, \-\ 

 in. ; cal.-limb glabrous, truncate, without segm. ; cor. -tube 

 over 1 in., slightly wider upwards, lobes \-\ in., oval-oblong, 

 obtuse; berry pyriform-globose, \\ in., rather tapering to 

 base, smooth; seeds few, large. 



Moist low country ; very rare. Hiniduma Pattu (Thwaites). Fl. 

 Sept.; white. 



Endemic. 



I have not met with this, and have nothing but the C. P. specimens, 

 which include no fern, flowers. Turns black in drying. 



23. RAMDIA,*Z. 



Shrubs or small trees, rarely scandent, one leaf of opp. pairs 

 often absent, stip. small, triangular; fi. rather large, solitary 

 and terminal or in leaf-opposed cymes; cal.-limb short, wide, 

 segm. large and leafy or very small ; cor.-lobes 5 (rarely 6 or 

 7), longer than tube; anth. nearly sessile, long, exserted; ov. 

 2-celled, with many or several ovules in each cell sunk in 

 fleshy placentas, stigma large, clavate or fusiform, 2-fid.; fruit 

 a berry, 2-celled, with numerous seeds immersed in pulp. — 

 Sp. 90; 18 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Spiny. 



FL 1 or 3, terminal ; cal.-limb persistent. 

 Fl. over \\ in.; fr. over 2 in. 

 FL and fr. both under 1 in. 

 F'. in cymes; cal.-limb deciduous 

 Without spines. 



L. narrow-lanceolate, cymes axillary . 

 L. oval, cymes terminal or leaf-opposed 



* Isaac Rand was Curator of the Apothecaries' Garden at Chelsea 

 from 1724 till his death in 1743. 



I. 



R. 



ULIOINOSA. 



2. 



R. 



DUMETORUM. 



3- 



R. 



MALALiARICA, 



4- 



R. 



Gardneri. 



5. 



R. 



RUGULOSA. 



