Tab. 4307 . 
GARDENIA malleifera. 
Clapjper-hearinff Gardenia. 
Nat. Ord. Eubiace^.—Pentandma Monogynia. 
Gen. Char. Cal. tnhis ovatus ssepe costatus, limbus tubulosus truncatus dentatus 
fissus partitusve. Corolla infundibuliformis aut hypocraterimorpha, tubo calyce 
multo longiore, limbo per sestivationem contorto patente 5-9-partito. Antheree 
5-9 lineares ad faucem subsessUes. Stigma clavatum bilobum aut bidentatum, 
lobis crassis erectis. Ovarium dissepimentis incompletis 2-5 semi-divisum, 
1-loculare. Bacca camosa calyce coronata intus cbartacea aut nucleata incom¬ 
plete 3-5-locularis. Semina minuta, placentis parietaUbus caruosis immersa. 
Embryo albuminosus vagus.—Arbores aut frutices, inermes aut spinescentes. 
Folia opposita raro verticillata, ovalia. Flores axillares aut terminates, plerumque 
solitarii albi, demum fuscescentes, sapius odori. Be Cand. 
Gardenia malleifera-, foliis obovato-lanceolatis acuminatis glabris in petiolum 
brevem attenuatis, floribus solitariis subterminalibus vel in axiUis dicboto- 
miarum speciosis, calycis tubo fusco-pubescenti supeme libero pentagono, 
laciniis longe subulatis erectis flexuosis, coroU® (alb® v. oehroleuc®) extuj 
pubescenti-tomentosis tubo elongate gracili fauce ampHato latissime campa- 
nulato, limbi magni laciniis ovato-rotundatis patentibus, antheris inclusis, 
stylo supeme flexuoso exserto, stigmate maximo malleifonni. 
My first knowledge of this fine plant, with its large and jfra- 
grant flowers (not unlike the odour of primroses), and extraordi¬ 
narily large and clapper-shaped stigma, so large and so heavy 
that it rests as it were on the lower side of the flower, was fi'om 
dried specimens sent to me by Miss Turner, daughter of the then 
Governor of Sierra Leone; and I have long had what I consi¬ 
dered the same plant but with rather broader, thinner, and green 
leaves from Senegambia, gathered by Haudelot (n. 809). Again, 
in 1843, Mr. Whitfield gave me dried specimens which he brought 
from Sierra Leone, and the same year he enriched the stoves at 
Knowsley with living specimens. Our plant, which, as far as I 
know, is the first to have flowered in this country, is derived 
from the same source, and we gladly illustrate another fine 
species of a group of BvMaceee peculiar to tropical western Ame¬ 
rica. The Gardenias of that country have been little understood 
and ill-defined. In describing the truly superb G. Stanleyana 
JCNE 1st, 1847. 
