462 LXIX., RUBIACER, [Gardenia 
of its flowers being completely 10-parted, and on this account 
Welwitsch regarded it as the type of a new genus allied to Gardenia ; 
the decamerous structure of the flowers applies not only to the parts 
of the calyx and corolla and to the number of stamens, but it extends 
equally to the stigma, and the ovary usually shows ten divisions, 
though in some flowers the number of cells varies from 8 to 11 ; in 
ripening the germen permits the walls of the cells to be absorbed, thus 
becoming unilocular in fruit. 
2, G. tigrina Welw. ms. in Herb. 
A small tree, 15 to 20 ft. high in the primitive forests or 8 
to 12 ft. in secondary woods; woods hard; head broad, leafy; 
branches slender, glabrate, sub-terete, dark-green, spreading 
horizontally ; branchlets usually dichotomous, spreading irregu- 
larly, thinly pubescent or nearly glabrous, somewhat angular, 
leafy ; buds pubescent ; leaves opposite or ternate, elliptical, more 
or less acuminate at the apex, wedge-shaped or unequally obtuse at 
the base, thinly coriaceous, almost membranous, but little glossy 
above, glabrate or scattered with short adpressed pallid hairs, 
obscurely green or deep-green above, rather paler beneath with 
yellowish nerves, 3 to 6 in. long by 1 to 23 in. wide; lateral veins 
4 to 7 on each side of the midrib, slender; petiole 4 to din. long ; 
stipules cuspidate, equalling or rather shorter than the petiole, 
deciduous ; flowers erect, like those of t/wernia in shape colour 
and sub-cadaverous odour (this odour being especially strong 
shortly after the perfection of the flower), about 3 in. long when 
expanded, about 4 in. long just before the spreading of the 
corolla, axillary and subterminal, solitary, very shortly pedun- 
culate, bracteate ; bracts small, like the stipules; calyx pubescent 
outside, turbinate at the inferior base, the limb superior, tubular- 
cylindrical-cupshaped, 3 in. long, lined with long dense adpressed 
hairs inside, unequally 2- or 3-cleft at the apex, tipped with 4 or 
5 elongated unequal pubescent subulate teeth ranging up to 3 in. 
long ; corolla of a pale-sulphur colour, spotted with red outside 
and more densely so inside, very handsome, badly scented, shortly 
hairy outside, elongate-funnel-shaped, narrowly sub-cylindrical 
and hairy inside in the lower half of the tube, funnel-shaped and 
glabrous inside in the upper half; limb 5-partite, spreading or 
reflexed, about an inch long ; segments ovate, acuminate, acute, 
closely and shortly hairy on both faces except near the base inside, 
sinistrorsely contorted (as seen from above) in the bud; anthers 5, 
about 2 in, long, linear, glabrous, half exserted, inserted on very 
short filaments a little below the glabrous throat of the corolla, 
dorsifixed at a point one-third above the base; style rather 
exceeding 3 in. long, exserted, glabrous or nearly so, subclavate 
and lobed or lined at the apex; ovary unilocular ; fr. (not ripe) 
as large as a pigeon’s egg, or even as a good-sized hen’s egg, 
ellipsoidal, more or less 6- or 7-ribbed, skin green, here and there 
covered with coriaceous-crustaceous points, filled with a-beautifully 
orange-coloured pulp, which surrounds the seeds, is highly 
astringent and stains the fingers dull blue. 
