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GARDENIA Stanleyana. 
Lord Derby’s Gardenia. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CINCHONACEA—(CINCHONADS, Lindley’s Veg. Kingd. ined.) 
GARDENIA. Botanical Register, vol. 1. t. 73. 
$ 5. Ternifoliæ, DeCand. Prodr. 4. 382. 
G. Stanleyana 3 inermis glabra, foliis térnis ovato-ellipticis acuminatis brevè 
petiolatis, floribus solitariis terminalibus, calycis limbo 5-dentato, corollæ 
glabræ tubo longissimo clavato sursüm ampliato limbo patenti laeiniis 
5 obliquis ovatis subeordatis. 
G. Stanleyana, Hooker mss. 
— dus 
. The first intelligenee which the publie received of the 
existence of this noble stove plant was derived from the 
Horticultural Society, at one of whose meetings in London a 
specimen was exhibited by permission of Sir William Hooker, 
from the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew. It bore several of 
its huge flowers, which resembled vegetable trumpets, and 
was a most remarkable production. The flowers had how- 
ever faded a little, and the snow-white edge of the corolla, 
in which much of the beauty resides, was spotted and dis- 
coloured. 
The mere fact however of a plant having flowered with 
blossoms eight or nine inches long, and nearly five inches 
broad, was quite enough to attract attention to it, and those 
who did not see the specimen while in flower at Kew, have 
been anxious to behold its image upon paper. We are happy 
to be able to gratify this curiosity, by the publication of a 
drawing made in the Nursery of Mr. Glendinning of Turn- 
ham Green in June last. 
Sir William Hooker has named the plant after the Earl 
of Derby, one of the great patrons of natural history of the 
present day, and in whose service Mr. Whitfield was engaged 
when he discovered the plant. A species better suited to 
bear the name of this distinguished nobleman could not have 
been selected. V 
For ourselves we have had small opportunity of studyin 
the speeies, and we therefore gladly avail ourselves of the 
September, 1845. U 
