42 | RUBIACER. [ Gardenia. 
truncate with 5 minute teeth, puberulous ; corolla almost salver. 
shaped, glabrous, the tube about 4 lin, long, the lobes oblong, as 
long as the tube ; berries globular or nearly so, apiculate, corticate 
rough, brown, the size of a small apple. 
Haxn.—Frequent in the Eng and dry forests of Prome, rather rare in the 
Trawaddi zone.—Fl, March-Apr.; Fr. March of next year.—1.—SS.—Ca8. Lat. 
Dil. 
2 
6. G. dasycarpa, Kz.—A leaf-shedding tree (12—15 4 3—44 
1—14) armed with opposite, long, straight, sharp spines, all softer 
i les deciduous 3 leaves obovate-oblong, 
acute, 1-2 in. long, entire, coriaceous, above minutely retrorse- 
pubescent, beneath appressed villous-pubescent ; flowers sessile 
solitary at the end of the thick wart-like branchlets; berries gilo- 
bular, corticate, the size of a small apple, covered with a brown 
velvety tomentum and crowned by the tubular calyx-limb, 
Haz.—Not unfrequent in the mixed dry and Eng forests of Prome ; also in 
Upper Tenasserim,—F, March-Apr.; Fr. the following year.—l.—S$,—CaS. 
** Unarmed. Stipules connate im @ sort of sheath, rarely 
almost free; flowers showy, large. 
7. G. obtusifolia, Roxb.— Yeng-khat.— A tree (15R—2544—6 
+1—2), leafless in H.S., the young shoots minutely puberulous 
. 
in. 
scabrous on both sides; flowers showy, 
vate-oblong 3 berries almost globular or somewhat elliptical, the 
size of a pigeon’s egg, nearly sessile, corky-fleshy, lenticellate, 
brown, crowned by the tubular calyx-limb, 
Has.—Frequent in the Eng and dry forests fr Pro 
4 opps Tenasserim.—F], Masoh-A gr’ Fr. the following ee 
ReMaRKs.—Sapwood pale brown, soft. Yields fine pellucid yellow resin. 
_ 8. G, resinif 
in HLS., the young shoots sticky ; stipules connate at the base, 
smooth ; leaves ovate-oblong to elliptically oblong, acute and often 
tera, Roth.—A tree (20—25 4 5g 4 1—3), leafless 
