120 Lxxv. KUBIACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Gardenia.- 



Q. CUNEA.TA, Br. ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 41 : "a small glabrous tree, branches silvery, 

 spines few solitary or paired 1-2 in., leaves subsessile obovate-cuneate obtuse thickly 

 coriaceous, flowers 2-3-nate white turning yellow rather small, calyx puberulous, teeth 

 5 linear-lanceolate with a pair of minute ones in each sinus, corolla subrotate ^ m. 

 diam., tube as long as calyx, throat bearded, lobes oboyate obtuse, fruit globose size 

 of a wood-apple smooth." — Ava. 



G. BASTCABPA, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 42 ; "a deciduous tree, spines straight sharp, soft 

 parts villous pubescent, leaves 1-2 in. obovate-oblong obtuse or acute coriaceous 

 retrorse-pubescent above, villous pubescent beneath, petiole very short, flowers solitary 

 sessile on thick wart-like branchlets, fruit globose corticate size of a small apple vel- 

 vety crowned with the tubular calyx-limb." — Porests of Upper Tenasserim; Prome,. 

 not unfrequent, Kurs. 



G. PUBESOEN-s, Eoth Nov. Sp. 151 ; DO. Prodr. iv. 383 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 396 ; the 

 description is insufficient to refer this to any genus, and, according to W. & A., it is 

 certainly not a Gardenia. 



G. OAEiuATA, Thw. Enum. 159 (C. P. 1655 in part); specimens imperfect, leaves 

 sessile elliptic tips rounded, fruit ellipsoid obscurely 5-ribbed, endocarp rather thick 

 woody, placentas 3. — Ceylon, Eatticaloa, Gardner. This may be a form of G. coro- 

 nana, with 3 placentas and obscure ribs. 



G. LATiFOLiA, Thvj. Enum. 421 (C. P. 3617); this has the winged calyx-limb of G. 

 earinata, but not so strongly, and the fruit is more globose ; it may be a form of 

 G. latifolia (the calyx being a very variable character). — Ceylon, near Colombo, W. 

 Ferguson. 



48.* KVFOBATZEItUia, mume. 



49. FETUXreA, DC. 



Glabrous shruts ; branches slender, strict, terete. Leaves petioled, narrowed . 

 at both ends ; stipules triangular or oblong-ovate. Flowers small, in axillary 

 spilces, 2-bi'acteolate, white. Caly.v-tube ovoid ; limb minute, 4-tootlied, persis-- 

 tent. Corolla funnel-shaped, throat villous ; lobes 4, spreading, twisted in bud. 

 Stamens 4 ; anthers subsessile, linear, connective thickened at the tip. Ovai-y ■ 

 (often incompletely) 2-celled ; style filiform, hranches linear hairy ; ovules 2-8, 

 pendulous from the top of each cell. Berry small, 2-celled. Seeds imbricate ; 

 testa thick, grooved and plaited : cotyledons linear. — Distkib. 4 or 5, Bengal 

 and Malay. 



1. F. Koxburg'Iiii, DC. Prodr. iv. 399; stipules deciduous, spikes 

 glabrous elongate, berry subglobose. P. microcarpa, DC. I. c. P. variabilis, - 

 -Hassk. in Flora, 1845, 232. Higginsia microcarpa, Mume Bijd. 988. Spicillaria 

 Leschenaultii, A. Bicli. in Mem. Hist. Nat. Faris, v. 252. Randia racemosa 

 and polysperma, Foxh. Hort. Feng. 15; Fl. Ind. i. 525, 527. R. polysperma,, 

 DC. I. c. 389. Hypobathrum lacemosum, Kurx For. Flor. ii. 61. Rubiacea, 

 Wall Cat. 8302, 8312. 



East Bengal (Suckshmee-poora), Hamilton ; Silhbt, Wallich ; Chittagong, Rox- 

 htirgh; Vegv, M'Clelland; Tenasserim and the Nicobar Islds., in swamp forests, 

 Kurs, &c. ; MAI.ACCA, Griffith. — Disteib. Java, Borneo. 



An evergreen shrub, 3-8 ft. Leaves 2-5 by f-lj in., brown when dry, thinly 

 coriaceoiis; .petiole J in.; stipules broad, caducous, with an axillary ring of brown 

 hairs. Spikes sessile or short-peduncled, 1-2 in., erect spreading or recurved. Flowers 

 ^ in. long. Berry globose or shortly ellipsoid, pedicelled, orange-yellow. — Griffith's 

 Malacca specimen has smaller very shining leaves. 



2. P, lon^ifolia, DC, Prodr. iv. 399 ; stipules persistent, spikes densely 

 puljescent very short. Higginsia longifolia. Flume mss. 



* This genus is introduced into the Key (p. 19) becauss it most probably occurs- 

 in the Malayan Peninsu'a, though it is as yet unrecorded. 



