_ 40 RUBIACER. [ Gardenia, 
2g . 
Tree ; leaves coriaceous, with a gland in the nerve-axils beneath ; 
flowers very large and showy . : ‘ . ‘ - G. pulcherrima, 
Shrub, 1-3 ft. high ; leaves membranous 3 flowers rather small, 
white . ° . ‘ . . : . . ° - G. hygrophila, 
* Armed with opposite sharp spines; stipules free, very deci- 
duous ; flowers small. 
by 4 or more small clusters at the end of the thick branchlets ; 
calyx glabrous, bell-shaped, about 2 lin. long, truncate and obso- 
letely 5-toothed ; corolla glabrous, funnel-shaped, the lobes rounded, 
shorter than the wide tube; berry ovoid, the size of a large plum 
glabrous. 
pry, Flare a forests of Pegu above Rangoon and Tenasserim; 
2. G. sessiliflora, Wall.—Ma-jee-Louk.—A troe (15—18 + 2—5 
+4—1), shedding leaves in H.S., straggling and often shrubby, 
armed with strong, opposite, spiny abortive branchlets, all the softer 
parts pubescent, turning soon roughish puberulous : 
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flask-shaped, densely pubescent, 3-4 lin, lon the limb 
longer than the tube, green, membranous, the lobes some 
3 berries ovate, upwards 
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4B.—Common in the leaf-shedding forests especially the mixed il 
surma from Ava and artaban d tot); pecially the mixed ones, a 
elevation.—F], Apr.-May ; Fr S—L eee ee asserim, up to 3,000 ft. 
3. G, erythroclada, Kz.— ha» nee.—A tre 
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1—2), leafless in H.S., armed with opposite, straight, short spines, 
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