531 
tylindtie, 5-toothed: tube of the corolla ¢ampanulate, 5+sided + 
negments 53, obliquely- ovate: anthers sessile, in¢luded: style short t 
stigma somewhat 5 5+grooved, situated deep in the tube : berry round 
ovate, smooth, depressed, slightly 5-furrowed at the apex and base : 
nut thin and firm, with 5 parietal receptacles: flowers small, ‘pale 
pelawishs white, short-peduncled, crowded on the extremities of short 
lateral spinous branchlets. 
Forests of Chittagong, flowering in March: 
GENUS VI. RANDIA. 
Pentandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv, Named after Dr. Rand, formerly of the Chelsea Botanical 
Gardens. 
Gen. Cuar. Small trees ot shrubs, mutch branched: thorns 
when present axillary, opposite or verticillate: leaves sessile or short 
petioled: stipules solitary'on both sides, two opposite’ ones’ often 
united by their margins into one’ that is intrafoliaceous } flowers 
dxillary, somewhat “Sessile, usually solitary: calyx-tube obovate § 
limb 5-lobed or toothed: corolla hypocrateriforin } limb 5-partite $ 
anthers sessile within the thfoat of the corolla, oblongslinear ! stigs 
ma thick, 2-partite, glabrous: berry crowned with the calyx, some- 
what diy, witha thi¢kish ‘rind : ‘2:celled: séeds several in each cell, 
attached to a central placenta, either nestling in pulp or imbritated 
downwards : albumen cartilaginous. \ 
(1) R. pumerorum. (Lam. ) 
Ident. W. & A. ptod. I. p. 397.—Dee. prod. IV: p: 385. 
Syn. Gardenia dumetorum, Reitz. —G. spinosa, Linn.—Poso= 
queria dunietorumy Roxb. Ih ‘Ind. L, p. 718.—Ceris-us Malabaricus; 
Gaertn. 
; “Engrao. Wight’s feon, t. 580.—Lam. Ill. t. 156. £, 4.=-Roxb, 
Cor. II. t. 136.—Pluk. t. 98.1.6. 00 
i Spzc. ‘Cuan. Small treet spines opposite : i leaves oval, cuneate 
at the base, slightly pubescent when young: limb of: the calyx 
campanulate ; lobes oblong: corolla hirsute on ‘the outside : tube 
rither longer than thie ‘sefments of ‘the ealyx, furnislied ‘on the inside 
near the base with a ring of erect dense hairs: fruit usually globose 
flowers solitary, terminal on the young shoots; shortlys “pedicelled, 
small, white: 
sCoromandel. Western Ghauts. Guzerat. Northern India. 
Flowering in April. . 
2) R. LONGISPINA. (Dec. ) 
Adent. W. & A. prod. L. p. 98.—Deec. prod. IV. p. 386. 
(Syn. Posoqueria longispina, Roxb. fl. Ind. I. p. 716,—-Gare 
denia longispina, Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 15. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 582, 
