212 £ing & Gamble — Flora of the Malayan Peninsula, [No. 4, 



Kedah : Curtis 2549. Penang : Gurtis 718, 1498. Prov. Wellesley : 

 Curtis 7106. Perak : Scortechini 1802; Wray 3467. 



Var. parviflora; tube of corolla only about '75 in. long, very 

 narrow ; the limb '75 in. in diam. 



Langkawi : Curtis 3383. 



Roxburgh's unpublished figures of Posoqueria fasciculata and Gardenia rigida are 

 practically alike. The only differences are that the leaves of the former are depicted 

 as ovate-lanceolote and 2'25 to 3 in. long ; the limb of the corolla as yellow, its tube 

 as '75 in. long and white ; the calyx under 2 in. long with teeth one quarter of its 

 length ; while Randia rigida is shown as having ovate leaves only 1'5 in. long ; corolla- 

 limb white and the tube 1 in. long, also white ; the calyx 3 in. long with filiform 

 teeth half as long as the tube. The former he attributes to Nepal, the latter 

 to Singapore. The two are evidently forms of the same widely distributed 

 species. 



12. Randia longiplora, Lam. Diet. II. 227 ; 111. t. 156, f. 3. A 

 glabrous shrub, sometimes scandent, usually armed ; young branches 

 twice as thick as a crow-quill, or thicker, pale-brown, shining, usually 

 bearing stout curved axillary spines *3 in. or more in length. Leaves 

 coriaceous, oblong, oblong-lanceolate or obovate-elliptic, acute or shortly 

 cuspidate, the base cuneate ; both surfaces pale-olivaceous green when 

 dry, dull ; main-nerves 5 or 6 pairs, rather straight, ascending, faint on 

 both surfaces but especially on the upper; length 1*5 to 375 in.; 

 breadth '75 to 1*75 in. (larger in var.) ; petioles *1 to '15 in.; stipules 

 about as long as the petioles, broadly triangular, with abrupt acuminate 

 apices. Cymes terminal or axillary, umbellate, as long as or longer than 

 the leaves (shorter in var.), few-flowered, on peduncles *25 to '4 in. long; 

 bracteoles few, ovate, acute. Flowers 1*5 (rarely 2 in.) long, white ; their 

 pedicels from '25 to '4 in., bracteolate about the middle. Calyx 

 narrowly infundibuliform, '25 in. long ('5 in. in var.) the mouth with 5 

 lanceolate acuminate teeth. Corolla salver-shaped, tube '75 to 1*5 long 

 and less than 1 in. wide; the throat pubescent; the limb 1 in. or 

 more across with 5 oblong blunt spreading or reflexed lobes. Anthers 

 linear, reflexed, exserted, much shorter than the corolla-lobes. Style 

 filiform; stigma broadly clavate, exserted, separating into 2 spathulate 

 lobes. Fruit globose-ovoid, glabrous, *35 to *5 in. long, its stalk some- 

 what longer; calyx-scar truncate, conspicuous; seeds rugose, embedded 

 in pulp. DC. Prod. IV. 386; Hook. fil. M. Br. Ind. III. Ill (in part). 

 _R. scandens, DO. I.e. 387. Posoqueria longiflora, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I. 718. 

 Webera scandens, Roxb. I.e. I. 698. W. longiflora, Kurz, For, Flora Burm. 

 II. 48. Canthium recurvum, Wall. Cat. 8284 (all the sheets except D.) 

 in Herb. Linn. Soc. 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 2802, 2803, 2805, 2807. Maingay (K.D.) 



