1903.] King & Gamble— Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 219 



1 to 1*25 in. long, campanulate. boldly 5-kecled, tapering to tbe pedicel, 

 the mouth expanded sub-truncate or with 5 large deep-keeled lobes. 

 Gorolla salver-shaped; the tube '5 to 1 in. long, adpressed-puberulous, 

 ridged; limb l - 25 to 2 in. across, with 6 to 9 broad lobes. Stigma 

 broadly clavate. Fruit ellipsoid, 5- to 8-ribbed, l - 5 to 175 in. long 

 including the large persistent calyx. Wall. Cat. 8271; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. 

 Ind. III. 117. DC. Prod. IV. 380; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 229. 



Perak: Scortechini 2301. Penang: Wallich, C. Ctirtis 525. 

 Malacca: Maingay 1486, (K.D.) 837; Ridley 953, 906. Hervey. 

 Province Wellesey : Ridley 6974. Singapore : H. J. Murton. 



4. Gardenia Godeproyana, 0. Kuntze in Revis. Gen. PI. I. 283. 

 Young branches half as thick as a goose-quill, rusty-puberulous, bear- 

 ing at the nodes the persistent bases of the stipules. Leaves thinly 

 coriaceous, dark-coloured when dry, both surfaces glabrous except 

 for a few hairs near the edge and on the midrib, narrowly elliptic, the 

 apex abruptly sub-acute, gradually narrowed to the base ; main-nerves 

 8 to 10 pairs, indistinct on both surfaces; length 1*75 to 2'25 in.; 

 breadth "65 to 1 in. ; petiole "15 in. ; stipules conjoined into a wide 

 tube longer than the petioles, obliquely cut on one side, the apex acute 

 rusty- pubescent externally. Flowers solitary or in pairs, 2 in. long. 

 Calyx "5 in. long, infundibuliform ; the mouth wide and with 5 short 

 triangular keeled acuminate teeth with ciliate edges. Gorolla about 

 l - 5 in. long, widely campanulate, abruptly contracted into a cylindric 

 tube *25 in. long, the limb 1*75 in. wide, divided into 5 deep oblong 

 blunt spreading lobes. Fruit ellipsoid, crowned by the thick calyx-scar 

 about an inch long and more than half an inch in diameter. Seeds 

 numerous, compressed, surrounded by pulp. 



Penang : Ridley 1316. — Distrib. Saigon, Pierre; Cambodia, 

 Kuntze ; Cochin- China, Godefroy-Leboeuf. 



5. Gardenia tubifera, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & 

 Wall. II. 562. An unarmed shrub or tree, young branches neaxdy as 

 thick as a goose-quill, the bark very pale, glabrous, shining. Leaves 

 thinly coriaceous, oblanceolate, the apex broad and shortly cuspidate, 

 the base much narrowed; both surfaces pale olivaceous-brown, shining, 

 usually glabrous, but sometimes the nerves and midrib beneath 

 puberulous or scurfy ; main-nerves 10 to 12 pairs, sub-horizontal, thin 

 but distinct especially below; length 3 to 6 in. ; breadth 1*5 to 2 in.; 

 petiole '2 to '4 in., narrowly winged in its upper part; stipules tubular, 

 sub-scarious, truncate, obscurely toothed, sometimes persistent, 2 in. 

 long. Flowers solitary, axillary or terminal, glabrous, sub-sessile, 

 3 to 4 in. long. Calyx tubular, tapering slightly to the base, truncate, 

 sometimes split at one side, smooth or ribbed, from "4 to '65 in. long. 



