any conclusion about it, especially too, seeing that Mr. Don 
separates it from the ‘ Eucliniee ’ of Randia, (where he has 
placed the long-flowered Sierra Leone species) and puts it in 
Gardenia, and further remarks, “ perhaps a species of Romatimi!^ 
Gardenia malleifera loves heat and moisture, and planted in 
a good sized pot, with a mixture of peat and loam, makes rapid 
progress, and begins to flower when only twm or three feet high. 
It would seem in its native country to form a large shrub. We 
believe at least one other large flowered Gardenia from Sierra 
Leone, brought also by Mr. Whitfield, is in our collection; but 
has not yet flowered. 
Descr. a shruh four to six feet high, often proliferously 
branched from the axils of the leaves. Leaves opposite or ternate, 
from five and six to nine inches long, obovato-lanceolate, glabrous, 
between membranaceous and coriaceous, quite entire, dark green 
above, paler beneath, penninerved, shortly acuminated at the 
apex, the base attenuated into a short and rather broad petiole, 
brown and transversely cracked. Stipules persistent, small, triangu¬ 
lar, acuminate, rigid, brown. Mowers solitary, terminal, or upon 
a short scaly stalk, or very small branch between the upper pair of 
petioles, and which sometimes bears two or even three leaves 
just below the calyx. Calyx rather large, conspicuous, clothed 
with rusty down; the tube long, five-angled, the lower half adnate 
wdth the germen, the upper free, and embracing the base of the 
corolla; segments long (sometimes an inch in length), longer 
than the tube, subulate, flexuose, rigid, erect. Mmcer-hud club- 
shaped ; the segments of the corolla in that state lapping over 
each other laterally. Corolla a span long, white or cream- 
white,* soon, in age, changing to tawny; the outside clothed 
with a short woolly down: the tube four inches long, as thick as 
a goose-quill, curved, thin, at the top rather suddenly expanding 
into a broad campanulate mouth : the limb of five broad ovato- 
rotundate, slightly wavy, large, spreading segments. This cam¬ 
panulate mouth contains the five sessile linear anthers, acute at 
both ends, placed alternately with the segments, and scarcely 
projecting beyond the base of the hmb. Style filiform, longer 
than the tube, beyond the mouth singularly enlarged into a club, 
or rather clapper-shaped stiyma, two and a half inches long and 
half an inch broad in the thickest part, white, solid, fleshy, 
streaked in the upper extremity longitudinally with impressions 
of the anthers, which were applied there in the state of the bud. 
* The Randia Bowieana {Gardenia macrantha, Roem. and Sch.) is figured in 
Bot. Mag. with yeUowish-buff flowers: this is in consequence of the journey the 
specimen had to make from Kew to Glasgow. All those large-flowered Sierra 
Leone Gardenite soon change from a pure white, or cream-colour, to buff and 
tawny, and when dry generally become black. 
