754 LXIV. RUBIACE^ [Itamlia. 



orifice ; lobes oblong, about as long as the tube or rather longer. Anthers long- 

 lineai^ included in the tube. Style slightly thickened in the middle, with 2 

 sliort linear lobes. Fruit globular and l^in. diameter, or ovoid and 

 longer, on stout peduncles from 6 to 12 lines long. — Gnrdaiia Fitzalcnii, F. v. M. 

 Rep. Burdek. Exped. 12. 



Hab.: Cape Upstart, Magnetic Islaiul, &c., liiintvkiii K.vprdUion ; lOnJeavouf liiver, IT. 

 Hill; BvoaAsonnA, Kiiiimnn ; lioekinsbiim Bay, Dalhichij, I)'. Hill; a very oommoii tree of the 

 tropical scrubs. 



Fruit eaten raw. — BiMi. 



Wood straw-coloured, close in grain, hard and tough. — liuileifs Cut. Ql. Wuwh No. 240. 



6. R. sessiliB (stalkless), F. v. M. Fraffin. vii. 47. A small tree. Leaves 

 ohartaeeous, obovate- lanceolate, about 5 to 6in. long, glabrous, very shortly 

 petiolate. Stipules about ^in. long, scarcely 1 line broad, acute. Flowers 

 axillary, sessile or nearly so. Calyx about |in. long, cylindrical. Corolla about 

 lin., tube attenuated at the base, slightly bearded inside, irregularly repando- 

 dentate, lobes lanceolate, acute. Filaments very short. Anthers within the tube 

 o£ corolla, li to 2 lines long, linear, acute. Stigmatie lobes 2, as long as the 

 style. Fruit solitary, nearly or quite sessile, globose-ovate, liin. long ; pericarp 

 dry, coriaeeou.s-crustaceous. 



Hab.: Cape York, S. (riUUver ; Cooktowu, Hon. A. Xortoii ; I'almer River, .V;'s. J". GuiraKni/ . 

 ranges about Cairns, /,. -f. S^iigent, who says this seems the mountain form of ft. Fitzahmi. 



6. B» densiflora (flowers close together), Bnith. Fl. Ilonyk. 155, and Fl. 

 Anxtr. iii. 412. An imarmed shrub or small tree, glabrous except sometimes the 

 flowers. Leaves oval-oblong or almost lanceolate, coriaceous, shining, 4 to 'Sin. 

 long. Flowers very fragrant, rather crowded in shortly pedunculate or almost 

 sessile cymes, really axillary, although they appear leaf-opposed by the abortion 

 of the subtending leaf. Calyx-limb cup-shaped, obscurely toothed. Corolla-tube 

 of equal length, with the lobes then often 3 lines long, very hairy inside at the 

 orifice ; lobes oblong, nearly 3. lines long. Anthers exserted, very narrow, about 

 2 lines long. Style linear, much exserted, the lobes not separating spontaneously. 

 Berries scarlet, small and globular or larger and ovoid. Seeds ovoid, compressed 

 or angular, more or less immersed in the pulpy placenta. — Cuju'n di'tidjinra, 

 DC. Prod, iv, 394, and other synonyms quoted Fl. liongk. I.e.; hrm-a Thovdcuut, 

 F. v. M. Fragm. ii. 132. 



Hab.: Gulf of Carpentaria, A'. Bmwii (from his MS., Benth.) ; Northumberland IslamTs, 11 

 Brown; Port Denison, Thozet, Dallachy ; Barron lUver, K. Coicley ; liockingham Bay and 

 Rockhampton, Dallachy ; and sometimes met with further south. 



The species is common in the Eastern Archipelago. It is evidently closely allied to 

 Htylocm-yne raccmosa, Cav., from the Philippine Islands, which I think should include S. 

 coffeoides, A. Gray, as originally proposed by Hooker and Arnott. Uriffithia Gardneri, Thw., 

 Enum. PL Ceyl. 158, from Ceylon, is scarcely to be distinguished specifically from K. densijloru. 

 .S'*j/7ocoJ'j/nc Ha™«j/t, A. Gray, from the Fiji Islands, is rather more distinct, but yet belonging 

 to the same group of closely allied species. — Benth. 



Wood of a light colour, very close in the grain, hard and tough, and might prove suitable for 

 wood stamps. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. U'omls \'n. 241. 



7. B.. WEoorei (after Chas. Moore, the late Cokmial BotanisL of New South 

 Wales), /•'. r. .1/. Hi'i-b.: Benth. Fl. .Ji(.x</-. iii. 411. A shrub of 8ft. (C. Moorei, 

 quite glabrous, producing axillary thorns, very small and few in the specimen, 

 but probably sometimes large. Leaves ovate, 1^ to 3in. long, on short petiole.s. 

 Stipules broad, with acute points. Pedicels axillary, slender, solitary, 1 to 1 

 lines long, 1-flowered, with a pair of small bracteoles at the end. Calyx about 

 2 lines long, the limb campanulate, truncate, obscurely toothed. Corolla-tube 

 about 4 lines long, cylindrical, slightly dilated at the orifice ; lobes 5, obtuse, not 

 quite so long as the tube. Fruit not seen. 



Hab.: X^o^an River, Beo. B. Scortechini, 



