LXXIV. RUBIACE^. 
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[Gardenia. 
linear included, sessile or sub-sessile. Ovary i-celled; ovules 
numerous 2 seriate on 2 to 6 placentas; style stout. Stigma 
fusiform or clubbed. Fruit ovoid globose, ellipsoid or cylindric. 
Epicarp coriaceous, endocarp woody. Seeds numerous included 
in pulp. Species about 60, all tropics and sub-tropics. 
Gardenia florida Linn, the cultivated Gardenia occurs in gardens 
and is known as Bunga Susu and Bunga China. 
i. Gardeniella. Shrubs or shrublets; flowers axillary, tube cylindric 
then dilate green or white spotted red; fruit sometimes capsular. 
Bush; fruit oblong; stipules tubular 
Shrublets; flowers below the leaves. 
Stipules lanceolate acute; leaves oblong 
hairy ...... 
Stipules ovate, fringed with long points. 
Leaves puberulous beneath; corolla green, 
pink-spotted ..... 
glabrous; corolla white 
(1) G. tentaculata 
(2) G. didymocarpus 
(3) G. virescens 
(4) G. pulchella 
Leaves nearly 
pink-spotted 
ii. Campanuloidea. Bush; flowers campamilate from a narrow base 
Pure white .(5) G. Campanula 
iii. Eu-gardenia. Shrubs or trees, resinous; calyx large tubular, 
lobes very short or o; corolla large, tube cylindric, long; petals 5 to 7 cori¬ 
aceous, yellow or orange. 
Calyx-tube campanulate, 5-keeled; fruit ribbed. (6) G. carinata 
Calyx-tube tubular, smooth lobes oblong blunt; 
fruit smooth. 
Bush, not very resinous; calyx slightly 
ribbed, -5 in. long . ( 7 ) G. tubifera 
Tree; leaves 4-5 in. long; stipules ciliate, 
very resinous; calyx -3 in. long . . (8) G. resinifera 
Big tree; leaves 9 in. long; calyx bilobed, 
one lobe longer, -3 in. long . . . (9) e i a t a 
Calyx-tube 1-25 in. long, tubular. 
Corolla 3 in. long.( IO ) G. speciosa 
Calyx-tube 3*5 in. long; corolla 4 in. long (11) G. Griffithii 
(1) G. tentaculata Hook. fil. F.B.I. iii. 119; King, lx. 217. 
A small bush about 2 to 4 ft. tall. Leaves membranous, 
oblanceolate, cuspidate, narrowed to base, minutely puberulous 
beneath, 4 to 8 in. long, 1-5 to 3 in. wide; petioles -25 in. long. 
Stipules tubular, bilobed. Flowers fascicled 4 to 6 axillary; 
pedicels -3 to *5 in. long, pubescent. Calyx narrow campanulate, 
lobes very narrow lanceolate linear setaceous. Corolla 75 to 1 in! 
long, tube narrow then suddenly dilate, -5 in. across, lobes oblong! 
rounded, light green with red spots inside. Fruit oblong, -5 in! 
long, glabrous, crowned by the long sepals. Hab. Common on 
river-banks on the stream edge. Johor, Sungei Tebrau; Ulu 
Kahang (Kelsall). Pulau Aor (Feilding). Pahang, Tahan River. 
Malacca, foot of Mt. Ophir (Lobb); Selandor (Cantley). Selangor 
Puduh. Negri Sembilan, Johol. Perak, Simpang (Wray); Ulu 
Kerling (Kunstler); Kwala Kenering. Province Wellesley, Tasek 
