1903.] King & G?,mble — Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 215 



in. long. Anthers linear, "4 in. long, sessile, dorsifixed above the 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. Ind. Til. ; Kurz For. Fl. Burma. II. 

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

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

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

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



Penang: Gurtis 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, Benth. & Hook. fil. Gen. Plant, ex 

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

 high ; 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 the 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 the lower surface ; length 8 to 12 in. ; breadth T75 

 to 2*75 in. ; 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, with many 

 subulate hairy bracts at the base. Oalyx-tube funnel-shaped, about 

 '35 to *5 in long ; the mouth with 5 linear spreading teeth much longer 

 than the tube. Corolla 4 to 5 in. long, infundibuliform, 3 or 4 inches 

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

 glabrcus outside; the limb with 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 the 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; Hervey, Berry 43, 79. Singapore: 

 Lobb 65; Dr. T. Anderson 107; H. J. Murton 1; Hullett 117. Perak : 

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

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

 10484. — Distrib. Sumatra. 

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