110 Lxxv. BUBiACEJS. (J. D. Hooker.) [^Bandia^ 



campanulate, tube usually short, lobes broad reflexed. Berry large, many-seeded^ 

 crowned with the calyx-limb. 



3. St. ulig^inosa, HC. Prodr. iv. 386 ; glabrous, spines short straight or 

 0, leaves obovate or oblong obtuse, flowers solitary white, calyx-tube terete, 

 corolla glabrous externally. W. ^ A. Prodr. 398 ; Wight le. t. 397 ; Dalz. 8r 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 119; Brand. For. Fl. 273; KwTi For. Fl. ii. 44; ClarTie in 

 Journ. Linn. Soe. Bot. xvii. 161. Gardenia uliginosa, iJefe Obs. ii. 14; Boxb. 

 Cor. Fl. t. 135; Wall. Cat. 8295. ? G. pomifera, Wall. Cat. 8296 (an unarmed- 

 specimen). Posoqueria uliginosa, Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 712. 



Eastern, Central, and Southern India, not common northwards. Sikkim, J. B. H. p 

 Assam, Hamilton. — ^Disteib. Ava (G. pomifera. Wall.'). 



A small, usually very rigid tree, with thick ■woody 4-angled branches, and leaves- 

 (except on young shoots) at the ends of the branchlets. Leaves 2-8 by l-l in., pale- 

 when dry, narrowed into the short slender petiole ; stipules triangular. Flowers^ 

 dimorphic, either large and sessile, or small and peduncled. Oalyx-tube 1| in. ; lobes 

 rounded. Corolla of the large form 1 to nearly 2 in. diam. ; lobes rounded ; tube with 

 a ring of hairs within ; of the small form with a very short tube glabrous within. 

 Stigma fusiform, 2-lobed in the sessile-flowered, entire in the peduncled. Berry 2 in. 

 long, yellow, ellipsoid in the sessile-flowered, smaller in the peduncled-flowered. Heeds^ 

 compressed, smooth. — Fruit sold in the markets, eatable. 



4. El. dumetorum., Lamh. Bl. t. 156, f. 4 ; DC. Prodi: iv. 385 ; spines- 

 stout straight, leaves obovate glabrous or pubescent, flowers solitary, calyx-tube- 

 terete strigose, corolla hairy externally, berry many-seeded. W. S/- A. P-odr. 

 397; Wight Ic. t. 580; Dais. %■ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 119; Bedd. Fl. Sylv., Anal. 

 Gen. t. xvi. f. 1 ; Brand. For. Fl. 273. R. nutans, longispina and floribunda, 

 DC. ^ W.^ A.; Dalz. ^ Gibs. I. c. ; Kurz For. Fl. 45; Wight Ic. t. 581,. 

 682, 583. B. Rottleri, W. <§■ A. I. c. R. stipulosa, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 

 228. R. spinosa, Blume Bijd. 981. R. malabarica, Wall. Cat. 8255 e. ? R. 

 tomentosa, W. ^ A. Prodr. 398 ; Wall. Cat. 8264 A. Gardenia nutans, Roxb. 

 Hort. Beng. 15 ; Wall. Cat. 8290. G. spinosa, Linn. fil. G. longispina and 

 floribunda, Boxb. and others. G. dumetorum, BHz. ; Boxb. Cor. PI. t. 136 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 8259. G. stipularis, Bottl. ^ Willd. ; DC. I. c. 383. G. glabra and 

 G. propinqua, Br. in Wall. Cat. 8258, 8260. G. latifolia, Schlecht in Herb. 

 Hohen. No. 861. Posoqueria dumetorum, P. uutans, P. long-ispina, and P. flori- 

 bunda, Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 713 to 719. Ceriscus malabaricus, Gaertn. Fruct. i. t. 28.. 



Stjbtbopioai, Himalaya from Jamu eastwards, ascending to 4000 ft. in Sikkim ; and 

 thence southwards to Chittagong, Pesu, Mabtaban, the Western Peninsula, and 

 Cetlon (not recorded from Assam, the Khasia Mts., Silhet, or the Eastern Peninsula). 

 — DiSTEiB. Java, Sumatra, S. China, E. trop. Africa. 



A small tree or rigid shrub ; spines horizontal, often long and strong. Leaves 1-2 

 in., glabrous or harshly or softly pubescent on one or both surfaces, obtuse or sub- 

 acute, narrowed into the short petiole ; stipules ovate, acuminate. Flowers rarelv 2-3 

 on a peduncle, subsessile, greenish yellow or white. Calyx strigose ; teetti very"vari- 

 able, sometimes spathulate. Corolla ^-| in. diara. ; lobes oval or oblong. Berry 

 globose or ovoid, |-lj in. long, glabrous or pubescent, smooth or obscurely ribbed, 

 yellow, pericarp thick. Seeds compressed, imbedded in pulp. — Wight and Arnott's 

 if. ioTnentosa, of which very imperfect fruiting specimens only are known, is either a 

 form with leaves softly tomentose beneath, and a globose slightly ribbed peduncled 

 fruit, or a different species. 



5. B.. tomentosa; Blume in DC. Prodr. iv. 379 (Gardenia) ; spines very 

 long, shoots and leaves beneath densely velvetty, leaves obovate or orbicular 

 subacute pubescent above, calyx-tube ribbed and corolla velvetty, berry many- 

 seeded. Gardenia tomentosa, Wall. Cat. 8264 B. G. dasvcarpa, JKttrz m Jbitrre.. 

 As. Soc. 1872, ii. 412. 



