Tab. 4322 . 
GARDENIA longistyla. 
Long-styled Gardenia. 
Nat. Ord. Kubiace^t:.—Pentandria Monogynia. 
(tpi). Char. {Vide supra. Tab. 4185.) 
Gardenia longistyla ; inennis fruticosa, foliis ovalibus apiculatis pubescenti- 
villosis, floribus terminalibus fasciculatis, calycis pubescentis tubo cylin- 
draceo, limbi laciniis subulatis erectis, corollse hypocrateriformis tubo lon- 
gissime exserto, stigmate magno globoso didymo. 
Randia longistyla. Be Cand. Prodr. v. 4. p. 388. 
Another beautiful Gardenia, as I consider it to be, rather 
than a Randia, from tropical western Africa: for the intro¬ 
duction of which our stoves are indebted to Mr. Whitfield. For 
the fine flowering specimen we are obliged to Messrs. Lucombe, 
Pince, and Co., of the Exeter Nursery,, in whose houses its 
cluster of blossoms was produced in June, 1847, for the first 
time, we believe, in this country. It is a handsome and most 
distinctly marked species, with long flowers and a style twice 
the length of the corollas, terminated by a large globose stigrna. 
It requires, we need hardly say, the heat ot the stove for its 
successful cultivation, and does not seem shy of flowering. 
Descr. This appears to form a large shrub, with terete, brown 
branches, the young ones downy. Leaves opposite, oval, of a 
rather soft and membranous texture, hairy on both sides (espe¬ 
cially beneath) and at the margin, wavy, apiculate, on rather 
short petioles. Floioers terminal, and there forming a large 
cluster or fascicle, inclining to one side. Peduncles short. Calyx 
downy: the tube adnate with the ovary, cylindrical: the limb 
of five, erect, subulate teeth. Corolla rather large, hypocrateri- 
forni: the tube about two inches or more long, cylindrical, 
green: the limb of five, oval, spreading segments, greenish 
without, white within. Anthers sessile, linear, inserted at the 
mouth of the tube. Style peculiarly long and not slender, 
SEPTEMBER IST, 1847. ^ 
