a liberality common to other distinguished nurserymen, as well 

 as to themselves, sent me from Exeter a flowering plant which 

 we had the pleasure of presenting to them a short time before as 

 a cutting : so freely does this species of Gardenia produce its 

 charming blossoms. It deservedly bears the name of the scien- 

 tific nobleman through whose means it was introduced, and in 

 whose, as well as other collections, it has now flowered. 



How closely it is allied to Rothmannia longifiora of Salisbury, 

 in ' Paradisus Londinensis,' Tab. 65. (strangely separated from 

 Gardenia Rothmannia, Linn., in Bot. Mag. p. 690, and there re- 

 ferred to Randia) is very evident ; but, if the characters of that, 

 as given by Salisbury, who only saw it " when all the flowers were 

 fading," be considered, it cannot be the same ; for, independent 

 of the exserted stamens of that species, the smaller size of the 

 corolla (five to six inches long, whereas ours is nine inches), and 

 the very different colour of the tube, which is described as being 

 cottony and the limb slightly cottony on both sides, will readily 

 distinguish it. Nothing of the kind is seen in our plant. 



Descr. Plant, now scarcely two years old, about five feet 

 high, shrubby or almost tree-like, having a central stem throw- 

 ing out horizontal branches on all sides and a spreading top ; 

 everywhere glabrous. Leaves spreading, subcoriaceous, oblong, 

 on short petioles, acute at each extremity, quite entire, penni- 

 nerved, the nerves bearing glands or swellings at their axils. 

 Flmoers large, handsome, powerfully fragrant, nine inches long ; 

 solitary from the upper side of the upper spreading branches, and 

 generally from the dichotomies or from the base of a branchlet, 

 nearly sessile, pointing upwards. Base of the ovary slightly at- 

 tenuated into a short peduncle and bearing a few small bracteas ; 

 upper or free portion of the calyx tubular, with five small, erect, 

 appressed teeth. Corolla infundibuliform ; tube extremely long, 

 slender, cylindrical, dark purple, sometimes tinged with green, 

 dilated above and opening into a bell-shaped purple mouth, marked 

 with raised lines without ; limb of five broadly ovate, spreading, 

 at length reflexed, obtuse segments, purple and white without, 

 pure white within with a shade of blush near the mouth, and co- 

 vered, except at the margin, with oblong dots of deep purple 

 elegantly arranged in oblique lines. Anthers linear, sessile, fixed 

 by the back to the inside of the mouth of the corolla, and, as well 

 as the very long style, included. Stigma clavate, bifid. Or my 

 thick and fleshy, with two cells and numerous ovules on the 

 placentae. 



Kg. 1. Stamen. 2. Calyx, ovary, style and stigma. 3. Transverse section of 

 tin ovary ; — luixjiujitd. 



