1903.] King & Gamble — Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 205 



Flowers 2 to 8 in. long, the corolla with a short cylindric 

 tube and inflated funnel-shaped limb ; fruit ovoid- 

 globular ... ... ... ... 15. R.exaltata, 



Flowers 4 to 5 in. long, funnel-shaped, 4 in. wide at 

 the mouth ; fruit narrowly ellipsoid crowned by the 

 long narrow calyx-teeth ... ... ... 16. R. macrophylla. 



Imperfectly known species ... ... ... 17. R. Kunstleri. 



1. Randia dumetordm, Lam. 111. t. 156, f. 4. A shrub or small tree, 

 unarmed or with straight horizontal opposite axillary or slightly supra- 

 axillary spines on the thin sub-quadrangular pale puberulous young 

 branches. Leaves membranous, oblong, oblong-oblanceolate or obovate- 

 lanceolate, acute or sub-acute, narrowed to the base, both surfaces glab- 

 rous, only the midrib always hairy and sometimes also the 6 or 7 pairs 

 of spreading faint main-nerves ; length 15 to 3*5 in. ; breadth *6 to 1*25 

 in. ; petioles '1 in. or less long ; stipules ovate, acuminate. Flowers *4 in. 

 long, 1 to 3 together on a short minutely bracteolate peduncle, sub-sessile. 

 Galyx cylindric-campanulate, strigose outside ; the mouth with 5 broad 

 erect lobes varying from ovate to spathulate, often acute at the apex. 

 Corolla with a short wide tube constricted and hirsute below the wide 

 broadly 5-lobed limb. Anthers linear, sub-sessile, included within the vil- 

 lous throat. Style thick, stigma with 2 thick, short lobes hardly exserted. 

 Fruit globose or ovoid, obscurely ribbed, *75 to 1*5 in. long, glabrous or 

 pubescent, smooth, or obscurely ribbed, yellowish ; the pericarp thick. 

 Seeds numerous, small, oval, compressed, embedded in pulp. W. & A. 

 Prod. 397; Wight Ic. 580 ; Brand. For. Flora 273 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 

 226 ; Koord. & Valet. Bijdr. VIIL 96 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 110. R. 

 nutans, longispina, DC. and W. & A., Kurz For. Fl. Burm. II. 45 ; Wight 

 Ic. 581, 582, 583 ; Miq. I.e. 227. R. Rottleri, W. & A. I.e. R. stipulosa, 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 228. R. spinosa, Blume Bijdr. 981 . R. malabarica, 

 Wall. Cat. 8255J57. Gardenia nutans, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 15 ; Wall. Cat. 

 8290. G. spinosa, Linn. fil. G. longispina and floribunda, Roxb. G. dume- 

 torum, Retz. Roxb. Corom. pi. 1. 136 ; Wall. Cat. 8259. G. glabra and G t 

 propinqua, Br. in Wall. Cat. 8258, 8260. Posoqueria dumetorum, P. nut- 

 ans, P. longispina, and P '. floribunda, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 713 to 719. 



Langkawi: Curtis 2799. Kedah : Curtis 2585. Pbrak : Wray 2599 ; 

 King's Collector 3168, 6495; Scortechini 95, 98, 175, 1017, 1933.— Dis- 

 trib. Java ; Sumatra ; British India. 



Var. pubescens, King & Gamble. Leaves more or less densely 

 pubescent on both surfaces ; spines sometimes "65 in. long ; fruit obpy- 

 riform. 



Kedah : Curtis 2585. Langkawi : Curtis 2799. 



2. Randia binata, King & Gamble n. sp. A shrub occasionally 

 scandent, glabrous, unarmed ; young branches thicker than a crow-quill, 



