XCIII. 
RAN DIA LONGIFLORA. 
Long-flowered Randia. 
ORDO NATURALIS. 
Rubiacee. Juss. Gen. p. 196. 
yeaa succulentum, 2-loculare: Colis hemisphzricis medio septi plus minus stipitatis. Caly» 
us nunc usque ad basin, tandem deciduus. Corolla decidua: Tubus cylindraceus apice in- 
fundibuliformi, i in quibusdam longissimus : Limbus 5-partitus, Anthera 5, ore tubi sessiles apici- 
bus szepius exsertis. Stigma clavatum, 2-lobum. Semina numerosa, nidulantia. Frutices Arboresve, 
ramis sepe ut in Terminalia frondosis, nunc spinosi: Folia ita uno plerumque minore, sape ad 
summitates ramorum confertim —, Stipulee 2 set acee, acuminate, decidue, inferiores abs- 
que foliis gemmacee. Flores terminales, 1-rit, vel dense racemosi, Bractew ad flores \-rios nulla, Hue 
referende plures Gardenix fructu 2-loculari: an ce Rothmanniz, guarum altera in hoc opere de- 
picta ? 
R. petiolis longis : laminis lanceolatis : corollz tubo 9-10 — extus glabro ; laciniis revolutis, 
ellipticis, ad latus apicis retusiusculis. 
Locus natalis haud innotuit, forsan Sierra Leon. 
Floret apud nos sub finem Novembris, Decembri. 
This genus was named by Hovsroun in honour of Mr. Isaac Ranp, one of his botanical co- 
temporaries, and adopted by Line in the Appendix to Hortus Cliffortianus. THUN BERG afterwards 
joined it to Gardenia, where it has been left by all subsequent writers zon Pa ren RCK, though it 
differs essentially in the structure of the fruit, which is 2-locular. I cannot te therefore to re- | 
store its first title, and now doubt whether Rothmannia must not be peronea ev Both the Roth- 
mannias correspond with the plant now figured in habit as well as fruit, but the tube. of their flower 
es a genus lately established by Decanpoxte from Gardena Tubiflora of the *Botaust’s oe 
epository 
Stem of the plant in ve Hresert’s collection 6 feet high, erec t, round, smooth while —* 
Cuticle soon peeling off: Branches opposite, one shorter or in the partial branches altogether want- 
ing, honizontally reclined, hcadeee, slender and without leaves for a consi ble space, Pat teak 
branches being again produced near the extremities, before the stem itself or central oe ndose 
shoots out, exactly as in Terminalia, Leaves opposite, one less than the other, or ha cee aly 
at me end of the branches: Petiole longer than jn any true or false C ardenia I have seen, 3 
and leaves close ele peri Peduncle colo 2 a line in Sh sticarpient cate 
about 3 lines in length, somewhat obovate, smooth, Calyx from 5 to 6 a in oo divided to the 
bottom without ta sheathing part round “33 we its divisions a cay aa a f 
near. Corolla leathery: ‘Tube 9 to 10 inches In » som a gee 
thence to beyond a middle ig pabise green cylindrical and internally eg at the top — 
shaped and mo: whitish, fading toa pale buff, 1; inch in “tui rage? | 
visions nena elliptical, tea rhe near the top somewhat aced of the limb, ect 
over each other before expansion. Anthers scarcely reaching to the 
_ Tium yellow, convex, ereducing so much honey, as to fill the tube bal fal seins 
thickened towards the stigma, whichis apres ei a-lo rae ! 
impression n of the 
ed orifice of the stigma is beyond and a little a? pesenaag 9 the to 
probably promote the os pacunaaat. 
serekuncits TO THE PLATE. 2 : 
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; Two views “s an Anther. 2. Tiere section of the fomat Frit. | 
