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GARDENIA florida; var. Fortuniana. 
Mr. Fortune's Gardenia. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CINCHONACE=. (CINCHONADS, Vegetable Kingdom, p. 761.) 
GARDENIA. L. 
G. florida, Linn. sp. pl. 305. Bot. Reg. t. 449. (the single state). 
G. radicans, ** Thunb. diss. no. 1. t. 1. f. 1.” Bot. Rep. t. 491. Bot. Reg. 
4. 73. (the double state). 
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We entirely agree with Dr. Wallich in regarding the two 
supposed species above quoted as mere varieties of each 
other. There is nothing tangible in the pretended distinc- 
tions by which it is said that they may be recognized. 
The magnificent variety now figured from the garden of 
the Horticultural Society, was sent from the north of China, 
by Mr. Fortune. In the Journal of the Society is the follow- 
ing account of it : 
* "The common single and double varieties of this plant 
are known to every one. That which is now noticed differs 
merely in the extraordinary size of the flowers, which are 
nearly four inches in diameter, and in having fine broad 
leaves sometimes as much as six inches long. The flowers 
are pure white, changing to light buff as they go off, and not 
unlike a very large double Camellia. Their calyx has the 
long broad lobes of the original species, instead of the narrow 
lobes, at least twice as short as the tube of the corolla, of 
G. radicans, by which that species is technically known. 
* [t is one of the very finest shrubs in cultivation, and 
ranks on a level with the double white Camellia, which it 
equals in the beauty of the flowers and leaves, and infinitely 
excels in its delicious odour.” 
