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17. Randia Kunstleri, King & Gamble ri. sp. A stout glabrous 

 armed climber ; young branches thinner than a goose-quill, pale- 

 brown, 4-angled, shining ; spines ^in pairs, slightly curved, slender, 

 much deflexed, about - 5 in. long. Leaves coriaceous, broadly ovate to 

 elliptic-rotund, obtuse or bluntly and shortly cuspidate ; both surfaces 

 pale hepatic-brown when dry; main-nerves 4 or 5 pairs, curved, as- 

 cending, rather prominent on both surfaces when dry ; length 4 to 5*5 

 in. ; breadth 2'5 to 3*5 in. ; petioles "3 to "5 iu. ; stipules longer than the 

 petioles, oblong, sub-acute. Flowers solitary or in scanty cymes, on short 

 pedicels. Calyx tubular, the limb truncate but obscurely toothed. 

 Fruit deflexed, on a short pedicel, depressed-globular, slightly contracted 

 towards the base, crowned by the short tubular truncate calyx-limb, 

 about 1*25 in. in diam. when dry and somewhat less in length; pulpy; 

 pericarp leathery, smooth, shining. Seeds numerous, horizontal, com- 

 pressed ; albumen horny, scanty ; radicle longer than the orbicular 

 cotyledons. Wall. Cat. 8284 C. (in Herb. Kew, not in Linn. Soc.) 



Perak : '^King's Collector 2683, 4335 ; Scortechini 485. Sumatra : 

 Curtis 3543. 



Scortectini's specimens of this in our hands are not in flower. Prom the field 

 note on one of them we quote the description of the flower as follows. " Calyx-tube 

 •5 in. long, two-thirds being produced beyond the ovary, cylindric, slightly con- 

 stricted in the middle ; the limb with 5 shallow teeth, glabrous outside and inside 

 except for an interrupted ring of yellowish thick hairs at the mouth inside. Corolla- 

 tube "5 in. long; the lobes as long, greenish yellow, glabrous except at the throat 

 where are attached the slightly exserted linear anthers. Ovary 2-celled; each cell 

 with many ovules in several series ; stigma oblong, shortly 2-fid. Berry 1 in. in 

 diam., not ribbed, crowned by the persistent calyx-tube." 



26. Gardenia, Linn. 



Shrubs or trees, often armed. Leaves opposite, rarely ternate ; 

 stipules often connate. Flowers often large, terminal or axillary, soli- 

 tary, fascicled, rarely cymose, sometimes dimorphic and polygamous. 

 Calyx-tube campanulate or tubular; the limb variable, tubular or 

 dilated, sometimes spathaceous, often persistent on the fruit. Corolla 

 various, longer than the calyx-limb; 5- to 12-lobed ; the lobes twisted 

 in bud. Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes. Anthers linear, included, 

 sessile or sub-sessile on the tube, as many as the corolla-lobes, and alter- 

 nate with them. Ovary 1 -celled ; style stout; stigma clavate, fusiform or 

 bifid ; ovules numerous, 2-seriate on the 2 to 6 placentas. Fruit often 

 large, ovoid, ellipsoid or globose, baccate, with a coriaceous epicarp and 

 woody endocarp which sometimes splits vertically at the sutures. 

 Seeds numerous, imbedded in the placental pulp, compressed; teeta 



