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4171. Perak: Wray 1276, 2994; King's Collector 2955, 5725,6589.— 



Distrib. Sumatra. 



25. Randia, Linn. 



Shrubs or trees, unarmed or with axillary or supra-axillary spines. 

 Leaves usually coriaceous, sometimes one of a pair larger than the other 

 or absent ; stipules short, free or connate. Flowers in axillary or (where 

 one leaf of a pair has aborted) leaf-opposed cymes, or solitary or in 

 fascicles or corymbs, rarely terminal, usually white or yellowish. Calyx- 

 tube ovoid, obovoid, or turbinate, smooth or ribbed ; the limb often tubular, 

 truncate or variously lobed. Corolla funnel- or salver-shaped or campa- 

 nulate, the throat glabrous or hairy ; limb with usually not more than 5 

 short or long lobes twisted in bud. Stamens 5 ; anthers narrow with short 

 filaments or sessile. Disk annular or cushion-like. Ovary 2- rarely 4- 

 celled ; style usually stout sub-fusiform ; stigma usually fusiform or cla- 

 vate, entire or bifid; ovules usually numerous, sunk in placentas at- 

 tached to the septum. Fruit more or less baccate, ovate, ellipsoid or 

 globose, 2-celled, many-seeded. Seeds usually immersed in pulpj; testa 

 thin, albumen horny, cotyledons orbicular. — Distrib. Species about 

 90, all tropical. 



Flowers under '5 in. long, in small fascicles or cymes 

 less than 1 in. in diam., or solitary ; corolla with a very 

 short tube, almost rotate ; leaves of the pairs equal in 

 size : — 



Armed erect shrubs with stout straight spines. 



Flowers *4 in. long, solitary or in fascicles of 2 or 3 ... 1. B. dumetorum. 



Unarmed : — 



Erect or scandent ; flowers *5 in. long, tube short, 



lobes long, calyx 4-toothed ; corolla 4-lobed, its 



tube hairy within ; anthers linear, sessile ; ovary 



with 4 placentas j fruit not ridged j main-nerves 



of leaves 10 to 12 pairs ... 



Scandent ; flowers '3 to "35 in. long ; calyx 5- or 



6-toothed ; corolla 5- or 6-toothed, its tube 



glabrous within ; anthers broadly ovate, apicnlate 



with filaments as long as themselves ; ovary 



with 2 placentas ; fruit with 10 to 12 vertical 



ridges ; main-nerves of leaves 7 or 8 pairs ... 



Flowers under 1 in. long, in short much-branched many- 

 flowered cymes from the axils of fallen leaves j corolla 

 salver-shaped ; leaves of the pairs equal in size ; fruit like 

 a pepper-corn (unknown in No. 6) : — 

 Scandent, glabrous : — 

 Unarmed : — 



Leaves on short petioles or sub-sessile, their bases 



slightly oblique and fturicled, main-nerves 6 to 8 



2. B. binata. 



3. B. impressinervis. 



