Gardenia^ RllbiaceCB. 333 



peduncle; cal.-limb § in., broadly tubular, slightly dilated at 

 top, either truncate (without segm.) or segm. 7-9, acute, con- 

 duplicate, recurved, usually with 7-9 prominent ridges or 

 wings, margin ciliate; cor.-tube 2-3 in., straight, lobes 7-9, 

 1^-2 in., horizontal, obovate-oblong, obtuse ; anth. half exserted; 

 stigma very large, exserted, 3-lobed ; fruit nearly globose, 

 about \\ in. diam., quite without ribs, crowned with the large 

 erect, persistent, rigid, enlarged, winged cal.-limb which is 

 f in. long, slightly pubescent, pale green, epicarp dry-fleshy, 

 valves of endocarp 3, bony, yellow, polished within; seeds 

 small, very numerous, horizontal, flattened, pale brown, pulp 

 purplish-grey filling the fruit. 



Moist low country in damp places ; rare. Colombo (Ferguson) ; 

 Kalutara; Pelawatte; Pasdun Korale, in several places. Fl. March; 

 pale lemon-yellow, becoming orange when fading. 



Also in W. and S. India. 



This can scarcely be G. latifolia of Roxburgh as figured in Cor. PI. t. 

 134, which shows a more ovoid fruit without a persistent cal.-limb. The 

 Fl. B. Ind. seems to be doubtful as to its proper name. 



The buds and flowers exude a copious yellow resin, which when dry 

 becomes powder)', and covers the branches, leaves, and fruit with a sort 

 of scurf. Wood hard, close-grained, rather heavy, yellowish, easily 

 worked. 



2. G. coronaria, Ham. in Symes, Emb. to Ava, iii. 307 (1800)? 



G. carinata, Thw. Enum. 159 (? Wall.). Trim, in Journ. Bot. 163. 

 C. P. 3618. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 117, 120. Ham. 1. c. t. 22. 



Much like G. latifolia, from which it differs thus : 1. 

 smaller, 3-4 in. (rarely longer), slightly pubescent above, and 

 usually densely so beneath (sometimes nearly glabrous) ; 

 cal.-limb about \ in., angled, pubescent ; cor.-tube 3-4 in., 

 narrow, pubescent, lobes 7, i-\\ in. ; fruit \\ in., ovoid, 

 tapering to base, crowned with cal.-limb, and with its angles 

 (usually 6 ; continued down the fruit as long, blunt, vertical 

 ribs, pubescent, valves of endocarp as in the last, seeds 

 numerous, pulp yellow, filling the fruit. 



Exposed rocks in the dry region ; rare. Batticaloa ; about Bibile 

 and Xilgala; Trincomalie (Nevillj. Fl. June; pale yellow. 



Also in Burma. 



This plant is very closely allied to G. latifolia, and may be merely a 

 dry-country variety, the longer narrower cor. tube and shorter lobes, with 

 the distinctly ribbed fruit, being the chief differences. It does not quite 

 agree either with G. cariiiata or G. coronaria, but I hesitate to make 

 another species where there seem already too many. 



3. G. turg-ida, Roxb. Hort. Seng. 15 (1814). 

 Trim, in Journ. Bot. xxvii. 163. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 118. Wight, 1c. t. 579. 



