1903.] King & Gamble — Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 215 



in. long. Anthers linear, "4 in. long, sessile, dorsifixed above tbe throat. 

 Style filiform 1 in. long, surmounted by the fusiform 2-lobed stigma. 

 Berry globular"-ovoid, smooth, woody, 2-5 in. in diam., on a thick 

 peduncle '5 in. long. Seeds embedded in pulp, compressed, angled, near- 

 ly -5 in. broad. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Iud. III. ; Kurz For. Fl. Burma. II. 

 46 (in part), Koord. & Valet. Bijdr. VIII. 90. Gardenia pidcherrima, 

 Kurz in Journ. As Soc. 1877 II. 155 ; For. Flora Burm. II. 43 (in part). 

 Gardenia Schoemanni, Teys. & Binn. in Ned. Kruidk. Arcb. III. 403 ; 

 in Nat. Tijds. II. 201 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 232. 



Penang: Curtis 793. — Distrib. Andaman Islands; Burma (Griffith 

 K.D. 2826). 



The Andaman plant included under R. exaltata by Kurz differs from Griffith's 

 in having obovate leaves and a smaller corolla with a long tube. 



16. Randia macrophylla, Bentb. & Hook. fil. Gen. Plant, ex 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 114. An erect unarmed shrub 3 or 4 feet 

 bigb ; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, dark-coloured when dry, 

 scaberulous-puberulous. Leaves large, coriaceous, almost sessile, 

 narrowly elliptic-oblong, sometimes shortly acuminate, gradually nar- 

 rowed to the acute base ; upper surface olivaceous-brown when dry, 

 glabrous except sometimes for a few hairs on tbe midrib; lower darker, 

 usually glabrous, but sometimes sparsely pubescent on midrib and nerves ; 

 main-nerves 10 to 14 pairs, slightly curved, ascending, depressed on the 

 upper, prominent on tbe lower surface ; length 8 to 12 in. ; breadtb 1*75 

 to 2*75 iu. ; petioles *1 to "15 in. pubescent, stipules '4 to "5 in. long, 

 triangular, with a broad base and long subulate-acuminate apex. 

 Flowers 1 or 2 in a leaf-axil, subsessile, 4*5 to 6 in. long, witb many 

 subulate bairy bracts at the base. Galyx-tube funnel-sbaped, about 

 •35 to "5 in long; tbe mouth with 5 linear spreading teeth much longer 

 tban the tube. Gorolla 4 to 5 in. long, infundibuliform, 3 or 4 incbes 

 wide at tbe mouth, white or with purple spots, puberulous or sub- 

 glabrcus outside; the limb witb 5 ovate sub-acute lobes about 1 in. long. 

 Anthers linear, about - 8 in. long, included in the glabrous throat. Style 

 slender ; stigma clavate, nearly as long as and parallel to tbe anthers. 

 Fruit ellipsoid, sparsely and deciduously rusty-strigose, 2 - 5 in. long, 

 crowned by the long, persistent calyx-lobes. Rothmannia macrophylla, 

 R. Br. in Wall. Cat. 8304. 



Penang: Wallich, Curtis 966. Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 2822; 

 Maingay (K.D.) 944 ; Cuming 2365 ; Eervey, Derry 43, 79. Singapore: 

 LoU 65; Dr. T. Anderson 107; H. J. Mtirton 1; Hidlett 117. Perak : 

 Wray 1380, 1632, 3232, 4214; Scortechini 1479; King's Collector 769, 

 10356. Penang: Ctirtis 966; Dindings : Curtis. Selangor: Gooderoy 

 10484. — Distrib. Sumatra. 

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