440 RUBIACEAE. 



Surinam River, near Joden Savanne: Splitgerber 865 H. L. B. 905, 



317-15 (A- Apr.). 

 Surinam: Hostmann 740; Hostmann and Kappler 1063. 

 Tropical Brazil, Guyana, Mexico, Central-America. 



SABICEA Aubl. 



Sabicea aspera Aubl. Plant. Guyan. 194 t. 76. 

 Tapanahoni River: Versteeg 690 (fl. July). 

 Para district: Splitgerber 687 H. L. B. 905, 298 — 131 (fl. March) named 



Sabicea excorticata Splitg. Mss. ; near Osembo : Focke 589 (fl. Apr.) ; 



near Onoribo: Focke 589 (fl. March). 

 Lower Saramacca River, near Santigron: Went 198 (fl. Aug.); near 



Jacob-Kondre : Pulle 127 (fl. Dec). 

 Surinam: Kegel; Hostmann 40; Wullschlagel 25 3 ex Schum. 1. c. 308. 

 Tropical America. 



RETINIPHYLLUM H. B. K. 



Retiniphyllum Schomburgkii (Bth ) Mull. arg. Flora Bras. VI. 5 p. 12. 

 Commianthus Schomburgkii Bth. in Hook. Journ. of Bot. III. p. 223. 

 Surinam River, near Joden Savanne: Splitgerher 860 H. L. B. 905, 



317—16 (fl. Apr.). 

 Para district, near Berlyn: Wullschlagel 807 ex Mull. arg. 1. c. 14; 



Dr. Voltz without number. 

 Surinam: Kegel 1149; Hostmann and Kappler ed. Hohenacker 1118. 

 Northern Brazil, British Guyana. 



RANDIA Houst. 



Randia formosa (Jacq.) K. Schum. Flora Bras. VI. 6 p. 342. 

 Mussaenda formosa Jacq. Stir'p. Americ. 70 t. 48. 

 Marowyne River, near Galibi: Went 419 (fl. Oct.). 

 Paramaribo: Wullschlagel 250. 



Lower Saramacca River, near Maripaston: Kegel 1363 (fl. May). 

 Upper Coppename River: Boon 1071 (fl. Aug.). 



Nickerie; Tulleken 297 H. L. B. 903, 322—1220 and 1600 (fr. Aug.). 

 Surinam: Hostmann 579; Hostmann H. L B. 903, 322—20; Focke. 

 Vernacular name: >Marmeldoosje". 

 Peru, Venezuela, Brazil, Guyana. West-Indies. 



GARDENIA Ellis 



Gardenia florida Linn. Spec, plant, ed. II. p. 305. 

 Surinam: Menze ex Schum. I.e. 334. 

 China and Japan. 



