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’ Spxc. Cuar. Tree: spines occasionally alternate, horizontal : 
young branches drooping: leaves from obovate to oblong, cuneate 
at the base or pubescent on the nerves: limb of the calyx campanu- 
late; lobes ovate, with often a small tooth between them in thé 
sinus: corolla silky on the outside: tube with a dense ring of hairs 
near the base on the inside: fruit drupaceous, short-ovoid: flowers 
short-pedicelled, usually 1-3 at the extremities of the young axil- 
lary shoots, occasionally solitary and axillary, largish, pure-white, 
fragrant. 
Coromandel. Khandeish jungles. Northern India. Flowering 
in March and April. ; 
(3) R. rowenrosa. (W.&§ A.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 398. 
Spec. Cuar. Spines opposite, spreading: leaves on the young 
shoots oval, obtuse, more or less cuneate at the base: upper surface 
somewhat pubescent, tomentose on the nerves, under and petioles 
tomentose: flowers solitary at the extremities of the leafy shoots, 
short-pedicelled: fruit nearly globose, slightly 10-ribbed, villous, 
more glabrous when ripe. 
Peninsula. 
(4) R. rrorioxpa. (Dec. ) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. $98.—Dec. prod. LV. p. 386. 
Syn. Posoqueria floribunda, Roxb. fl. Ind. I. p. 719.—Gate 
denia floribunda, Spreng. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 583. 
_ Spxc. Cuar. Shrub, with axillary spines: leaves opposite and 
fascicled, obovate, cuneate at the base, glabrous: calyx glabrous ; 
tube cylindric: segments somewhat lanceolate, persistent: corolla 
silky outside: tube rather shorter than the calyx-segments, with a 
ring of erect hairs about the middle on the outside: fruit ovate-cor- 
date, shining: flowers short-pedicelled, 4—6 on each of the small 
lateral scaly leafless young shoots, middle-sized, white, becoming 
yellow in the evening. 
Coromandel, flowering in April and May. 
(5) R. utieinosa. (Dee. ) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 398.—Dec. prod. IV. p. $86. 
Syn. Gardenia uliginosa, Retz.—Posoqueria uliginosa, Rowb. 
fi. Ind. I. p. 712. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 397.—Roxb. Cor. II. t. 135. 
Srec. Cuar. Tree: branches straight, 4-angled: branchlets de- 
cussating, horizontal, bearing 1-4 thorns and I-3 large short- pedi- 
celled white flowers at their extremity : leaves oblong, somewhat 
