114 Lxxv. EUBIACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) IBandm. 



14. R. anisopbylla, JacJc in Roxh. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey Sf Wall. ii. 661 ; 

 softly Tillous or tomentose, erect, unarmed, leaves large obovate cuspidate pairs'- 

 unequal, cymes axillary villous, corolla silky, lobes equalling the tube, berry 

 woody ellipsoid tomentose many-seeded crowned with a tubular calyx-limb^ 

 Gardenia? anisopbyUa, Wall. Cat. 8399; DC. Prodr. iv. 381. 



Malacca, Pexano, and Singapoeb, Jack, &e. 



A small tree; branches robust, villous. Leaves 9-15 by 3^-5 in., pale brown,, 

 variable as to pubescence, narrowed at the base ; petiole short ; stipules united intO' 

 a villous 2-lipped tube bearded ■within. Cymes stoutly peduncled, many-flowered ; 

 bracts deciduous. Flowers pedicelled, white'. Calyx ovoid, tomentose ,- limb tubular,, 

 silky within; teeth ovate-subulate, deciduous. Corolla coriaceous, ^-f in. diam. ; 

 lobes oblong. Stigma fusiform. Berry 1-1^ in. long; pericarp thin with a woody 

 cndocarp. Seeds many, compressed, smooth. 



15. R. sikkimensis, Hooh. f. ; pubescent, erect, shrubby, unarmed,. 

 leaves in unequal pairs elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate acuminate slightly pubescent 

 above more so beneath, cymes axiUaiy tomentose, corolla densely silldly 

 tomentose, tube longer than the oblong lobes bearded within below the- 

 middle. 



Foot of the SiKKiM Himalaya; on dry hills below Kursiong, alt. 4000 ft.,. 

 J. D. H. 



A woody shrub ; branches stout, leafy at the tips. Leaves brown when dry, 4-7 

 by 14-2^ in., rather membranous, with scattered hairs above, tomentose especially on. 

 the nerves beneath; petiole short, tomentose; stipules very broad, acute or cuspidate, 

 connate in a glabrous or hairy tube, or free. Q/mes sessile ; branches erect, short,, 

 bracts small, acute. Flowers pedicelled, erect. Calyx pubescent, funnel-shaped ;. 

 limb dilated, teeth subulate. Corolla 1 in. diam. ; tube nearly 1 in. long, very silky ;. 

 lobes not half as long, obtuse, glabrous within ; mouth glabrous. Stigma clavate, 2- 

 lobod. Omrj/ 2-CBlled, many-ovuled ; ovxdes apparently not sunk in the placenta. — 

 Specimens not numerous or good. 



Sect. VI. Gardenioides. An unarmed tree. Flowei-s cymo&e. Calyx- 

 lobes small. Corolla-tube very short ; limb inflated, very large, 5-lobed. Berry: 

 large, globose, with a woody rind, many-seeded. 



16. R. ezaltata, Oiiff. Notul. iv. 262 ; glabrous, erect, unarmed, leaves 

 elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate acute or subacute, cymes axillary or leaf-opposed 

 pubescent, corolla very large, tube short, limb inflated, berry large woody many- 

 seeded. Kurz For. Fl. ii. 46. Gardenia pulclierrima, Kurz in Journ. As. Son, 

 1872, ii. 312 ; 1877, ii. 155; For. Fl. ii. 43. 



Texasseeim; Mergui, in Mangrove Swamps, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 2826). Anda- 

 M.\N Islands, Kurz. 



A tree, 50 ft.; trunk slender; branches with pale barb, youngest compressed and 

 pubescent. Leaves i-7 by 2-3 i, greenish when dry, coriaceous ; petiole short; sti- 

 pules broadly triangular. Cymes subsessile; branches stout, short, few-flowered. 

 Caly.v tomentose; teeth triangular. Corolla white, sweet-scented, 3 in. long; limb 

 c.ampauulate, 1 ^ in. across the broad ovate lobes ; throat naked. Antliers slender, in- 

 cluded. Style filiform ; stigma included, clavate, 2-lobed. Berry globose, 1-1 j in. 

 diam. ; pericarp smooth, very woody. Seeds imbedded in pulp, ^ in. across, much 

 compressed, obtusely angled, smooth or wrinkled. — Griffith, and Kurz (copying him), 

 describes the leaves as unequal subrepand and pubescent at the nerve-axils beneath. 



Sect. VII. Euclinia. Unarmed erect shrubs. Leaves in equal pairs. 

 Flowers solitary or fascicled, axillary or terminal. Calyx-lobes very long. Corolla 

 large, funnel-shaped. 



17. R. macropliylla, Br. in Wall. Cat. 8304 (Rothmannia) ; erect, 

 unarmed, branches and leaves beneath hispid or glabrate, leaves subsessile nar- 



