Pandia.] RubiaceCB. 33 I 



3. R. malabarica, Lam. III. Genres, ii. 226 (1793). Fudan, T, 

 Griffithia fragrans, W. and A., Thw. Enum. 158. Gardenia fragr cms, 



Moon Cat. 19. C. P. 1234. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. ill. Wight, Ic. t. 310. 



An erect, much-branched shrub, with many branchlets 

 reduced to short sharp spreading axillary spines; 1. 1^-3 in., 

 lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, tapering to base, subacute, 

 quite glabrous, petiole |-f in., stip. acute, quickly caducous ; 

 fl. f— I in. diam., in few-flowered, spreading, glabrous, leaf- 

 opposed cymes, bracts small, connate in pairs, and so cup- 

 shaped; cal. glabrous, limb wide, cupular, deciduous, segm. 5 

 or 6, narrowly triangular, acute; cor. hairy at mouth, lobes 

 lanceolate, acute; anth. very long, exserted; fruit globose, 

 |— I in., marked on top with ring-scar of cal.-limb; seeds 

 about 8 in each cell, closely packed. 



Dry and intermediate region; common. Fl. April, September; 

 lemon-yellow. 



Also in S. India. 



Moon gives ' Maha-geta-kulu ' as the S. name for this. A dwarf, very 

 spinous state, with small rotundate leaves, which rarely flowers (much 

 like a Canthium in appearance) is very common. 



4. R. Gardner!, Hk.f. in Gen. PL ii. 88 (1873). 

 Griffithia Gardner!, Thw. Enum. 158. C. P. 657. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 112. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 38 {Griffithia). 



A rather small tree, with very many slender, drooping, 

 cylindrical branchlets, quite without spines, young parts 

 glabrous ; 1. 3-^-4 in., narrowly oblong-lanceolate, acute at 

 base, attenuate-caudate, acute at apex, often somewhat fal- 

 cate, glabrous, shining above, paler beneath, petiole very 

 short, stip. very short, apiculate ; fl. J-f in. diam., on long 

 ped., cymes rather lax, spreading, from axils of past and 

 present 1., bracts opp., connate, small ; cal. pilose, limb short, 

 almost truncate, segm. tooth-like ; cor.-tube hairy at mouth, 

 lobes linear-oblong, acute ; fruit pyriform-globose or broadly 

 ovoid, nearly \ in., seeds numerous. 



Moist region up to 3000 ft.; rather rare. Colombo; Karawita; Udu- 

 gama; Hantane; Deltota. Fl. April ; white or pale yellow. 

 Endemic. 

 Closely related to R. densijlora, Benth. of Burma and Malaya. 



5. R. rug-ulosa, Hk.f. in FL B. Ind. iii. 113 (ii 



Griffithia rugulosa, Thw. Enum. 159. C. P. 245. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 113. Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 37 {Griffithia speciosa). 



A climbing shrub, with many long drooping branches 

 quite without spines; 1. 3—4^ in., oval, acute at base, shortly 

 acuminate, acute at apex, glabrous, with tufts of hair in axils 

 of veins beneath, rather thick, veins impressed above, pro- 



