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GARDENIA radicans. 



Double-flowered dwarf Gardenia. S& 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



GARDENIA. Cat. 5-dentatus aut 5- (9-) fidus Inciniis interdum 

 obliqualis. Cor. infundibuliformis tubo saepi longo, limbo plaiio 

 5-9-fido. St am. antberis sessilibus, intra fauccm latentibus aut pai inn 

 exsertis. Bacca sicca 2-4-IocuIaris polysperma, seminibus numerosis 

 duplici serie dispositis in singulo loculo. A/ bores aut f nil ices. Folia 

 opposita. Flares subsolitarii terminates aut axillares. " Genus in vivis 

 recognoscendum. Jussieu. gen. 202. 



G. radicans, inermis, foliis lanceolatis, corollis hypocrateriformibus ob- 

 tusis, calyce angulato, caule radicante. Willd. sp. pi. 1. 1225. 



Gardenia radicans. Tluinb. diss, de Gardenia, n.l.t. \.f. \.jap. 109- 

 t. 20. Sj/st. veg. Murr. ed. 14. 251. Hort. Kew.'ed. 2. U 36ft. 

 Andrezcss reposit. 49 1 . ♦ 



Kutsjinar, altera. Kccmpf. aman. 808. 



Frutex pedem parum exsuperans, ramosus, glaber ; caulis teres } crassitudine 

 calami. Folia opposita vel scepius terna, elliptico4anceolala, Jirmula, utrinque 

 attenuata longinquiils tamen versus lasin, 1-2-uncialia, vix unquam tres 

 partes uncice transversa, lucid a 9 saturate viridia, patentia. Stipulae intra- 

 Joliaceaf, vaginantes, membranacece, ovatce. Flores ramorum terminates, 

 erectiy solitariu Cal. virens, angulatus, glaber, 5-partitus, segmentis acu- 

 minatis erectis tubo cor oil ce fere duplo brevioribus. Cor. alba, coriacea, odo- 

 rafissima, Jtavido-emarcescens. 



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The present species is only known to us as bearing 

 flowers in a multiplied state. It is not easy to say in what 

 respect it differs from Gardenia florida (the Cape Jasmine), 

 except in being of much inferior size. Radicans seldom 

 exceeds the height of a foot, florida often becomes six or 

 seven feet high ; the leaf in the first is from one to two inches 

 long, and seldom more than three parts of an inch over; in 

 the latter nearly three times that size, of a more oblong 

 form, and not tapered nearly so far towards the base. The 

 disproportion between the flowers of the two is less; these 

 in both are of the same coriaceous substance, whiteness, 



and delightful fragrance, and in both fade away, after 

 nearly a fortnight's endurance, to a yellow hue. The habit 

 ascribed to the present species, of putting out roots from 

 the stem above ground, and which has suggested the name, 

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