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LXXIV. RUBIACEiE. 
[Randia. 
pericarp thick. Seeds numerous small, in pulp. Hab. Open 
usually sandy country. Pahang, Pekan. Perak, Relau Tujor 
(Wray); Thaiping (Scortechini). Lankawi, Burau; Kwah (Curtis). 
Perlis, Kanga. 
(2) R. perakensis King and Gamble, lx. 210. 
A small armed glabrous tree, 12 to 18 ft. tall, spines 1 to 1-25 in. 
long, bearing flowers. Leaves thinly coriaceous, narrow elliptic 
tapering to both ends; nerves 6 to 7 pairs inarching some way 
from edge; 3 to 5 in. long, 1*4 to 2 in. wide; petioles -i to *2 in. 
long. Flowers 1 in. long; pedicels very short, solitary or in pairs 
from short branches eventually becoming spines. Calyx tubular, 
•35 in. long, base narrowed, teeth triangular. Corolla-tube -45 in. 
long, *2 in. through, limb -75 in. across, lobes oblong blunt. Anthers 
sub-sessile at base of tube. Fruit globular surmounted by scar of 
calyx, 175 in. through. Hab. Perak (Kunstler). 
I have not seen this. 
(3) R. tomentosa Hook. fil. F.B.I. in. no. R. dasycarpa 
Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 59, p. 113. 
Large spreading shrub, 6 to 18 ft. tall, strongly armed with 
horizontal spines 2 in. long; young parts red-scurfy. Leaves 
appearing after the flowers, spathulate, tip rounded, coriaceous 
dark green, velvety above, densely white felted beneath; nerves 
10 pairs elevate beneath, 1-25 in, long, 75 in. wide. Flowers on 
short thick peduncles. Bracts ovate red-hairy, a cup-shaped 
circle of connate bracts below the flowers. Calyx cylindric, teeth 8, 
woolly and gummy, -6 in. long. Corolla white, densely hairy, lobes 
8, oblong obtuse, glabrous on.inside, 1 in. long. Stamens 8. Fruit 
3 in. through, globose, brown velvety, crowned by calyx-tube. 
Hab. Open sandy heaths. Setul. Kelantan, near Kota Bharu 
(Ridley). Dislrib. Annam, Siam, Tenasserim, Java. 
This sometimes forms bushes with the boughs lying on the ground and 
so densely armed that it is almost impossible to get at it without being 
wounded. The fruit exactly resembles a pomegranate. 
(4) R. Clarkei King and Gamble, lx. 213. 
Glabrous climber with stout recurved hooks in pairs. Leaves 
coriaceous, thick oblong-elliptic sub-acute, base round; nerves 4 
or 5 pairs prominent; 4 to 6-5 in. long, 175 to 2*5 in. wide; petioles 
■5 to -6 in. long. Flowers coriaceous, 3 in. long, white in cymes of 3, 
axillary, leaf-opposed; peduncles *15 in. long; pedicels *2 in. long 
thick. Calyx tubular, base narrowed, *3 in. long, teeth small. 
Corolla-tube thick, 1 in. long, lobes 75 in. long, oblong. Hab. 
Climbing on high trees in forest. Singapore, Bukit Timah. Malacca, 
Bukit Bruang (Derry, Maingay). Negri Sembilan, Gunong Angsi. 
Native name : Akar Suburus. 
(5) R. penangiana King and Gamble, l.c. 213. 
A woody climber, glabrous about 30 ft. long with stout axillary 
