Tab. 4185. 

 GARDENIA Stanleyana. 



Lord Derby s Gardenia. 



Nat. Ord. Rubiace^e. — Pentandria Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Calycis tubus ovatus ssepe costatus, limbus tubulosus truncatus 

 dentatus iissus partitusve. Corolla infundibuliformis aut hypocraterimorpha, tubo 

 calyce multo longiore, limbo per sestivationem contorto patente 5-9-partito. 

 Anthera 5-9 lineares ad faucem subsessiles. Stigma clavatum bifidum aut biden- 

 tatum, lobis crassis erectis. Ovarium dissepimentis incompletis 2-5 semi-divisum, 

 1-loculare. Bacca carnosa calyce coronata intus cbartacea aut nucleata incom- 

 plete 2-5-locularis. Semina minuta placentis parietalibus carnosis immersa. 

 Embryo albuminosus vagus. — Arbores aut frutices, inermes aut spinescentes. Folia 

 opposita raro verticillata, ovalia. Plores axillares aut terminates, plerumque soli- 

 tarii, albi, devmm scepe Jlorescentes, seepius odori. — Be Cand. 



Gardenia (Rothmannia) Stanleyana; glaberrima, ramis horizontalibus, folus 

 oblongis brevissime petiolatis utrinque acutis venarum in axillis glandulosis, 

 floribus subsessibbus axillaribus solitai-iis erectis plerumque e caubs dicbo- 

 tomia, calycis subcybndracei tubo superne libero 5-dentato dentibus ap- 

 pressis, corolla? glaberrima} tubo longissimo superne sensim ampliato angu- 

 lato, bmbi laciniis late ovatis obtusis cito revolutis, antheris styloque mclusis. 



Gardenia Stanleyana. Hook. MSS. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1845, t. 4. 



Sent to the Right Honourable the Earl of Derby by Mr. 

 Whitfield from Sierra Leone, and assuredly one of the most re- 

 markable and beautiful of the plants which that gentleman has 

 had the satisfaction of introducing to our collections. The young 

 plant presented to us, when yet only a few months old, but 

 placed on the table of a stove heated below by the tank-system, 

 threw out flower-buds from most of the dichotomies of its young 

 horizontal branches; and in the month of March 1845 no fewer 

 than ten of the noble flowers, here represented, were expanded 

 at a time on one and the same plant. Our drawing was made 

 at that period, but was scarcely finished when we sent the plant, 

 for the gratification of those who might not be able to see it at 

 Kew, to the rooms of the Horticultural Society m London where 

 it did not fail to attract great attention. Unfortunately the sea- 

 son was unusually cold ; the blossoms were materially injured in 

 the transit, so much so that our figure would have still been unfit 

 for publication, were it not that Messrs. Lucombc and I ince, witli 



OCTOBER 1st, 1845. 



