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GARDENIA florida; a: flore simplici. 
Single-flowered Cape Jasmine. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Rupiaces, Jussieu gen. 196. Div. IV. Fructus monocar- 
pus bilocularis polyspermus. Stam. 5. Fol. opposita; caulis swp? frates- 
cens.. . 
GARDENIA, Cal. numero segmentorum varius, Cor, infundibuli- 
formis. Germ. inferum, 1-loculare, receptaculis 2 v. pluribus, parietalibus, 
‘ovula numerosa affigentibus. Bacca 1-locularis, polysperma. di- 
rectione varius, Rorburgh MSS. (exangl.) * 
` Div. Inermes. . 
G. florida, fruticasa, foliis ovatis, utrinque attenuatis; baccis elongato-tur- 
binatis costis tot acut? prominentibus quot segmenta. calycis. Rorb. loc. 
cit. (ex .) 
Gardenia ets hi Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1. 305. Mill. dict, ed. 8.4.7. Thunb. 
diss. de Gardenié. n. 2. Bud. fl. Jap. 108. Loureiro cochin. 147; (fide 
speciminis archetypi Herb. banks. asservati). Hort, Kew. 1: 293. ed. 2. 
1.368. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 1225. Smith in Rees's cyclop. in loco. 
Arbuscula sinensis, qm majoris folio, vasculo seminali hexagono, ad sin- 
gulos angulos alis foliaceis munito, que porrectz vasculi coronam effor- , 
mant, Umki Sinensibus dicta. Piukn. amalih. 39. © ` 
Frutex cynosbati fructú alato, tinctorio, barbulis longioribus coronato, Petiv. 
|. mus. 408. Ray hist. 3.9233. - I. 
Si vulgo Kutsjinas. Kempf. amen. exot. fasc, 5. 808. 
(a) flore simplici . 
Gardenia jasminoides. Solander in philosoph. trans. 52. 654. tab. 20; (ex- 
emplario sieco de ta). : 
Umki, alits Umuy; eujus fructum ad colorem escarlatinum tingendum in- 
servit; florem fert rosaceum, elbum, hexapetalum. Plukn. amalth, 212. 
.. tab. 448. fig. 4- 
(8) flore pleno. - . 
Gardenia jasminoides. Ellis in philosoph. trans. 51. 935. tab. 23. 
Jasminum? ramo unifloro pleno, petalis coriaceis. Ehret pict. tab. 15. 
Jasminum foliis lanceolatis oppositis integerrimis calycibus acutioribus. Mill. 
ic. tab. 180. . È - 
Catsjopiri, Rumph. amb. 7. 26. t. 14. fig. 2. 
rez. Gem, turbinatum costis 5-6 acutè prominentibus, fundo 3-5- 
loculare, suprà 1-loculare. Bacca oblonga, aurantiaca, glabra, magnitu- 
dine ovi columbini, costis 5-6 è segmentis calycinis, persistentibus decurren- 
tibus angulata, 1-locularis: receptacula. sepitis 4 de pariete interaned usque 
ad $ partem diametri cavitatis loculumenti prostantia, indogue in lobos 2 v. 
plures discedentia: sem. numerosa, pulpá aurantiacd nidulantia, subrotunda, 
subcompressa, rugosa. Roxb, l. c. (ex angl.) 
"There is no published figure of this shrub from the living 
plant in-the single-flowered state; but we find an engraving 
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