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GARDENIA FLORIDA, Var OVALIFOLIA. OvAL- 
LEAVED GARDENIA OR CAPE-JASMINE. 
Class and Order. — 
Penranpria Monoeynis. 
Generic Character. 
Bacca infera, bilocularis, polysperma. Anthere sessiles 
in fauce corolla. _ Stigma bilamellatum. 
‘Specifie Character and Synonyms. 
Garpenia florida ; inermis, foliis ellipticis, corollis hypo- 
crdteriformibus, calycinis laciniis verticalibus lanceo- 
lato-subulatis. Hort. Kew. ed. I 1. p. 293. ed. alt. 
1. p. 368. Willd. Sp. Pl.1. Roem. et Sch. Syst. Veg. 
ecg 250, 3 an ee 
Mae og inermis, corollis obtusis, calyce angu- 
lato, foliis ovatis acutis:. Thunb. Garden. n. 2.—Flor. 
Japon p.108. — ~~ vm ee ee 
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Garventa florida ; inermis, foliis ovatis: utrinque acutis, 
stipulis obtusis, laciniis calycinis verticalibus, tubo 
recto. Lin. Suppl. p. 163. 
oro pleno, petalis coriaceis. Ehret 
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Jasminum foliis lanceolatis oppositis integerrimis calycibus 
acutis. Miller ic. p. 120. ¢. 180. 
Jasminum capense ; foliis lanceolatis oppositis integerrimis, 
floribus triandris. _ Miller Dict. ed. 8° in loco. 
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Garvenra florida is commonly known in th series by 
the name of the Cape Jasmine, and was first published by 
_Mr. Pamir Muuer, from a plant which flowered in Mr. 
Warner’s garden, at Woodford. It was brought from the 
Cape of Good Hope, by Captain Hutcuinson; but is 
probably, however, not a native of that country, but ac- 
Se 7 cording 
