•gardenia."] lxxv. rubucej:. (J. D. Hooker.) 119 



•flowers greenish polygamo-monoecious, <? fascicled pedicelled, ? sessile terminal, 

 corolla velvety, tube very short and wide, fruit ovoid with a thick beak. Kurz 

 For. Fl. ii. 40. G. oiycarpa,^r. in Wall. Cat. 8261. 



Pegu and Tenasseklm, Wallich, Kurz. — Disteib. Ava. 



A deciduous tree, 15-18 ft. ; brancheg and spines very stout. Leaves very like 

 "those of G. campamdata, base much produced and narrowed. Cali/x of ? flask-shaped, 

 densely pubescent ; lobes foliaceous, obovate-oblong or orbicular, exceeding the vel- 

 vety corolla. Fruit 1-j in. long ; pericarp rough, thick, fleshy, with a thin shining 

 ^endocarp and 5 ? placentas. 



13. €r. erytliroclada, Kurz in Jdurn. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 311 ; For. Fl. 

 ii. 40 ; branches red stout, spines short or 0, leaves connate ohovate or suborbi- 

 •<;ular pubescent or tomentose, flowers greenish polygamo-dioecious fascicled or 

 ■<;ymose pedicelled, ? solitary sessile, fruits dimorphic of the ,?-hermaph. smaller 

 globose, of the $ -hermaph. ovoid. 



Pegu ; at Eangoon, M' Clelland. Tenasserim and Birma, common in forests, Kurz. 

 — DiSTRiB. Ava. 



A small deciduous tree with very stout branches of a curious brick red colour, 

 .shortly pubescent, or the leaves at length glabrate. Leaves 4-10 in., often as broad as 

 .long, rather rough to the touch ; petiole 1-2 in. ; stipules ovate, acute. Flowers 

 ■ densely tomentose, pedicels of S very unequal. Calyx-lobes \ in. in flower, ^ in fruit, 

 orbicular or broadly obovate. Fruits, the larger 2 in. long, broadly ovoid, obscurely 

 • angled ; pericarp 1 J in. thick, dense, with a crustaceous shining lining ; smaller globose, 

 ■size of a cherry ; placentas I think 2 only. Seeds small, black. 



Sect. III. Rothmannia. Shrubs, unarmed. Flowers axillary (in the 

 Indian species), solitary or fascicled ; calyx-teeth linear. Corolla inflated. 



14. Ct. teutaculata, Sooh. ; branches slender pubescent, leaves elliptic- 

 Jlanceolate or oblanceolate caudate-acuminate membranous glabrous or puberulous 

 beneath, flowers axillary polygamous, calyx-lobes filiform flexuous, corolla cam- 

 panulate. 



Malacca, Griffith, Maingaij (Kew Distrib. 2810, 839) ; foot of Moimt Ophir, 

 Lolb. 



A shrub, unarmed. Leaves 4r-9 by 1J-2J in., sessile or narrowed into a veiy short 

 ■jpetiole, dark green when dry ; stipules ovate, acute, connate. Flowers in fascicles of 

 3-6 ; pedicels j-J in., narrowly campanulate ; limb dilated, with 5 spreading'filiform 

 curving pubescent teeth J-§in.'long. Corolla J in. long, glabrous; lobes ovate, ob- 

 tuse. Fruit J-f in. long, broadly ellipsoid, crowned with the long tentacle-like calyx- 

 teeth, smooth; pericarp thin, brittle, polished within; placentas 2. Seeds many, 



DOUBTFUI, AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



G-. ixoR^EFOLiA, Br. in Wall. Cat. 8262 ; glabrous, unarmed, branches angled, leaves 

 4-7 by l-|-4 in. ovate- or linear-oblong obtuse very coriaceous narrowed to the base, 

 nerves 10-12 pair very distant, petiole very short, fcuit sessile broadly ovoid shortly 

 beaked by the calyx-tube If in. long smooth, pericarp very thick polished within, 

 iplacentas 2, seeds very broad and flat. — Tavoy, J^affic/;.— Perhaps a Eandia. 



G-. CALTCUIATA, Boxb. Fl. Ind. i. 704; "arboreous, leaves petioled ovate acuminate 



■smooth, flowers terminal solitary sessile, germ involucelled, calycine segments ensi- 

 form, anthers within the swelling tube of the 5-cIeft corolla.'' BC. Prodr. iv. 380 ; 

 ,W. ^ A. Prodr. 396. — Native place uncertain, said to be brought from Hyderabad to 



.Madras, where Roxburgh saw it in a garden. " Probably G. latifolia," W. & A. 



G-. ENNEAHDRA, Koen. ; W. i[ A. Prodr. 395 ; this differs from G. latifolia. Ait., in 

 the Y6TJ short obtuse calyx-teeth, and in the thin pericarp of the fruit. Under G. 

 latifolia I have stated that Eoxburgh's drawing and description of that plant differs 



ifroiu Aiton's in these points, but without more materials it is impossible to say 



-whether this is to be regarded as a specific distinction. 



