Tas. 4791. 
GARDENIA Guososa. 
Globe-fruited Gardenia. 
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Nat. Ord. Rupracr®.—PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calycis tubus ovatus, seepe costatus, limbus tubulosus truncatus 
dentatus partitusve. Corolla infundibuliformis aut hypocraterimorpha; tubo 
calyce multo longiore ; limbo per estivationem contorto patente 5-9-partito. 
Anthere 5-9, lineares, ad faucem subsessiles. Stigma clavatum, bifidum aut bi- 
dentatum, lobis crassis erectis. Ovarium dissepimentis incompletis 2-5 semi- 
divisum, l-loculare. Bacca carnosa, calyce coronata, intus chartacea aut nu- 
cleata, incomplete 2-5-locularis. Semina minuta, placentis parietalibus carnosis- 
immersa. Embryo albuminosus, vagus.—Arbores aut frutices (gerontogew) inermes 
aut spinescentes. Folia opposita, raro verticillata, ovalia, Flores azillares aut 
terminales, plerumque solitarii, albi, demum sepe florescentes, sepius odori.—DC. 
GarDENIA globosa; foliis lato-lanceolatis brevipetiolatis glaberrimis, floribus 
terminalibus solitariis, calycis limbo brevi 5-dentato intus villoso, corollee 
tubo omnino campanulato limbo profunde 5-lobato lobis patentibus acutis — 
fauce villosa, ovario oblongo, fructu globoso majore. 
GarRDENtA globosa. Hochstett. Flora, v. 25. p. 237 (note). Walpers, Rep. Bot. 
v. 2. p. 944. Krauss, Fl. Natal. p. 66. 
A shrub of Natal, South Africa, first detected by Dr. Krauss, 
since imported to our collections by Messrs. Backhouse, York 
Nursery, through their friend Mr. Andrew Steedmann. The 
“ globose” fruit I have not seen, but there can be no doubt, I 
think, of the identity of the species with the @. globosa of 
Hochstetter and Krauss. Messrs. Backhouse learn, from Mr. 
John Brownlee, missionary at King William’s Town, in Caf- 
fraria, that the fruit of some of the South African species of Gar- 
denia is eaten, when mellowed, like that of the ‘medlar. The 
present is a greenhouse plant, where it forms an erect shrub, 
bearing its white, very fragrant flowers, in a small-sized pot, m 
the month of June. : 
_Duscr. Moderately-sized shrub, much branched, with oppo- 
site, spineless dranches, which are clothed with a smooth, red- 
‘dish-brown dark. Leaves opposite, 8-4 inches long, between 
JULY Ist, 1854, 
