44. | RUBIACER. . [ Gardenia, | a 
long or somewhat longer, ventricose-inflated above the very short 
tube; berries elo ose, the size of a small orange, corticate and 
rough, brown, crowned by the calyx-limb. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of South Andaman.—F], May 
Fr. Apr. of following year.—s,— -=chloritie and serpentine rocks, 
11. G, hygrophila, Kz—An evergreen small shrub, 1-3 ft, — 
high, often spreading, all parts glabrous or nearly so ; stipules 
connate, glabrous or sparingly hirsute; leaves obovate to obovate 
€ same; calyx glabrous or slightly ap- 
pressed hairy, nearly 4 lin, long ; limb bell-shaped, 5-cleft, the 
lobes linear-lanceolate, acuminate, sparingly ciliate; corolla about 
an inch long, somewhat irregular] campanulate-funnel-shaped, the 
lobes unequal, about 2 an in. long. 
-—Frequent in the swamp forests and in Swampy places in the savannahs 
.—Fl, Jan.—s.—S$$,—A]]. 
Hap 
of the Irawaddi alluvium 
RANDIA, L.. 
Calyx-tube tubular, bell-shaped or annular, truncate, toothed 
or lobed, usually persistent, Corolla from salver-sha to 
in the fleshy or pulpy placentas.—S maj] trees or shrubs, usually — 
armed with spines (abortive branchlets), Stipules interpetiolar, 
singly on each side, broad and acuminate, often deciduous. Flowe 
yyy mes or clusters, or solitary 
ranchlets, 
Leaves glossy, Smooth ; corolla alm t rotate, in. in dia- 
meter ; berries large, sosiits mS penet Bea s iS = o R. uliginosa 
Leaves glabrous oY sparingly irsute ; corolla less than 4, lines in ! ; 
diameter, with a wide glabrous or sparingly hairy tube; 
€s sessile, glabrous ‘ ‘ ‘ F 7 é i R longispina 
As former, but all parts pubescent ; berries sessile, tawny-velvety : R. 8 sa 
1B uliginosa, DC.; Bedd. F. sy] : 
‘ ‘er : * 1. sylv. Madr. 132 6:16; £1 
Brand. For. Fi, 273.— Mhan-hpyoo,—-A# evergreen tree (20—304 
4—8 + 2—3) » Tigidly branched, armed with geminate, straight, 
short, but sharp spines especially towards the end of the thick, short 
