cash ire, and cultivated in her stove, among many other rare 

 exotics, especially tropical fruits and useful plants. " The 

 principal collection is contained in two stoves, and, perhaps, 

 a better, or a more varied, private collection, considering 

 the short time that has elapsed since the talented proprietress 

 first devoted separate houses to the cultivation of tropical 

 fruits, is not to be met with in the coiifitiy 7* The name of 

 such a lady cannot but be appropriately given to a plant 

 which would be an ornament to any stove, and introduced 

 and reared by herself. A question may, indeed, remain, as 

 to the Genus in which the plant ought to be placed ; but I 

 agree with Mr. Bentham, in thinking that, whilst the several 

 sections of Gardenia, as given by Endlicher, are compre- 

 hended in our Genus ; the present plant is rightly placed 

 there. It blossomed with Mrs. Sherbourne, in June, 1843. 

 Mr. Whitfield, who first sent it to that lady, says that, in 

 Sierre Leone, the fruit is an agreeably tasted berry. 



Descr. A climbing and branching plant. Branches 

 rounded, glabrous. Leaves opposite, about three to four 

 inches long, elliptical-ovate, shortly acuminate, coriaceous, 

 petiolate, petioles rounded, connected at the base. Stipules 

 oblong, rather large and leafy, but soon deciduous, and only 

 seen on the upper nascent pair of leaves. Peduncles shorter 

 than the petioles, solitary, axillary, single-flowered, clothed 

 with small, ovate bracteas, which also cover the small infe- 

 rior ovary, which is obovate, downy, two-celled, with many 

 ovules : around the cells, between them and the margin, in 

 the thick pulpy substance, is a series of longitudinal canals 

 or ducts. Limb of the calyx very large, campanulate, 

 formed of five leafy, broadly cuueate lobes, half as long as 

 the tube of the corolla. Corolla large, fleshy, between funnel 

 and bell-shaped, white, deep blood colour within. The tube 

 is narrow at the base, and there clothed internally with short, 

 fine, silky hairs, much enlarged upwards; the limb of five, 

 rounded, spreading lobes. Stamens inserted above the 

 middle of the tube. Filament very short (almost none), 

 inserted below the middle of the back of the anther, which 

 is semicylindrical, the upper, plane surface, with two longi- 

 tudinal cells. On the top of the inferior ovary, in a large 

 disk or hemisphaerical gland, from the centre of which rises 

 the style, with its clavate stigma, marked, as it were, by the 

 cells of the anthers, which at first press against it. 



* See the second notice of the Hurst House Gardens, in the Gardeners' Chronicle for 

 September, 1S-13, p. 631. 



1. Flower laid open. 2. 3. Back and front view of the Anther. 4. Vertical, and 

 5, transverse Section of the Ovary : -more or less magnified. 



