Gardenia.| RUBIACER. 41 
Has.—Common in the mixed and dry forests all over Burma from Ava and 
Martaban down to Upper Tenasserim.—Fl. Apr.-May ; Fr. C.S.—1—SS.—CaS. 
SiS.—AIL, ete. 
4. G. cuneata, R. Br.—A small tree, all parts glabrous, the 
branches silvery white, sparingly armed with solitary or paired 
straight, sharp spines; leaves obovate-cuneate, tapering in a short 
petiole or almost sessile, blunt, 1-2 in. long, entire, thick-coriaceous, 
smooth, the nerves thin, without visible net-veination between them; 
flowers rather small, white, turning yellow, on short bracteoled thick 
pedicels, by 2 or 3 arising from short tubercle-like axillary branch- 
lets; calyx puberulous, 5-toothed, with a pair of minute teeth in 
each sinus of the linear-lanceolate true teeth; corolla about + in, 
across, almost rotate, the tube only as long as the calyx, bearded at 
the throat, the lobes obovate, blunt; berries globular, the size of a 
wood-apple, smooth. 
Has.—Ava.—Fr. Sep. 
