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. GARDENIA Devoniana. 
The Duke of Devonshire's Gardenia. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CINCHONACEA. (CINCHONADS, Vegetable Kingdom, p. 761.) 
GARDENIA.—L. 
G. Devoniana ; inermis ; foliis oppositis papyraceis petiolatis undulatis ob- 
longis acuminatis junioribus subpilosis vetustis glabris venarum axillis 
subtus tomentosis, flore erecto terminali solitario, ovario pyriformi levi, - 
sepalis linearibus patulis ad basin usque divisis, corollá longissimá tubo 
gracili fauce campanulatá lobis 5 obtusis revolutis oblique emarginatis. 
G. Devoniana, Lindl. in Gardener's Chronicle, 1846, Oct. 3, p. 663. 
This glorious plant is a native of Sierra Leone, whence 
living specimens were imported by Mr. Whitfield. It is, 
perhaps, the finest of its noble race, and is, we trust, worthy 
of the name which we have ventured to confer upon it. 
Handsome as Lord Derby's Gardenia certainly is, it is as far 
removed from this as an earldom from a dukedom. 
The flowers are nearly eleven inches long, pure white at 
first, but after a time changing to a light straw colour, and 
look much like those of a huge white lily. 
Our drawing was made in September last, in the Nursery 
of Mr. Glendinning of Turnham Green, from whom we have 
the following momorandum concerning it :— 
“ The varieties of these plants by no means decrease 
their value or the interest they possess ; on the contrary, no 
collection of the least pretension can be without them : their 
extraordinary and conspicuous flowers, together with their 
perfume, will give them a very high claim. I have one word 
to add relative to their cultivation, in addition to what has 
already appeared respecting them. The Cape Jasmine, it is 
well known, can be made to bloom at a variety of seasons ; so 
can these more gorgeous species, with guite as little trouble. 
To accomplish this, let them be placed, after flowering, in a 
high temperature of at least 80°, and charged with moisture. 
