- Gartner fays, that Tuunzerc has, not improperly, re- 
[ 690 J 
GARDENIA ROTHMANNIA. SPOTTED= 
FLOWERED GARDENIA. : 
CFEESETS. ahahaha 
» Clafs FS) Didi: 
_ PENTANDRIA’ Mowoeynta, = 
Generic CharaBir: 
Contorta. Bacca — 2 feu 4-locularis, polyfperma. 
Stigma lobatum. 3 
Specific Chara&er and Synonyms. 
GARDENIA Rothmannia ; inermis, foliis obloun Corolla. 
infundibuliformibus, laciniis calycinis fubulatis. 
Hort. Kew. 1. 294. Martyn Mill. Dif. n. 8. - 
Gaert. Sem. 2. p. 480. t. 177. f. 4- a 
GARDENIA Rothmannia ; inermis, foliis oblongis, ftipulis 
fubulatis, laciniis calycinis fubulatis teretibus: . 
longitudine tubi, tubo glabro ampliato brevi. 
Linn. Suppl. 165. Willd. Sp. Pl.1. 1988. 5 
GARDEN 1A inermis, corollis acutis fubcampanulatis, calyce 
»glabro, foliis oblongis acutis. Thunb. iff. de 
Gard, n. 6. 
ROTHMANNIA capenjfis ; Thunb. AG. Fislm. ug p. 65. 
t. 2. 
A native of the Cape of Good Hane, ofoutily 
vaders Bofch and in the woods in the neighbourhood | 
river Sonders-End, where it becomes a ftraight tree, nit 
ten feet high; the wood is faid to be very hard, an 
for making handles of axes and other tools. With a: 
a handfome evergreen fhrub, and its flowers, whic 
duced fingly at the extremities of the branches, are 
pleafing to the fight but very fweet-fcented, efpecially 1 
night, and preferve this odour in part long after they are d 
% _ marked that the berry is only one-celled, a feétion of the germen— 
appears tag to be two-celled, and G ARTNE F: ' Aigare ee: 
vide ye en = : : 
