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GARDENIA FRAGRANS. 



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135. 



GARDENIA ULIGINOSA. 



Umbels simple, small, terminal, or 



from small tubercles on the 



Retz. obs. 1. p. 14. Linn. spec, plant, edit. Willdenow, \ . p. 1228 



Nella Cakisha of the Telingas. 





branchlets, bearing many small, white, fragrant flowers. 

 Peduncles very short. 



Brack small, acute, at the base of each pedicel. 



Calyx above, five-tooth'd : toothlets acute. 



Cord: throat hairy; border always five-cleft : divisions acute 



Berry, size of a small cherry, red, two-cell'd. 



Seeds from eight to twelve, kidney-shape, orange-colour'd. 



* 



Trunk ill defined, covered with a dark rust-colour'd, scabrous bark. 



Branches erect, rigid, four-corner VI, thick set with short, rigid, 



round, diverging, decussated branchlets. 



Thorns one, two, three, or four, at the extremities of the short round 



branchlets. Like Gardenia spinosa, it is a common, rigid, shrubby species, 



Leaves opposite on young shoots, or fascicled at the extremities of delighting in a poor soil, and armed with strong, sharp thorns; but 



the branchlets, short-petiol'd, oblong, smooth, shining, entire, 



two or three inches long by one and a half broad. 

 Stipules within the leaves, as in the rest of the genus. 

 Flowers one, two, or three, upon their proper short peduncles at the 



extremities of the branchlets, large, white, and fragrant. 

 Calyx above, tubular, obtusely five-tooth'd, permanent. 

 Corol : mouth of the tube shut up with much white hair; border 



flat, from five to eight-cleft : divisions orbicular. 



It is a very rigid, ramous, small tree, armed with numerous strong 

 thorns ; delights in moist places, such as the banks of rivers and 

 low lands. Flowering time the beginning of the hot season, or, in 

 some measure, all the year. 



The flowers of this species, as well as the beauty of the entire 

 shrub, render it deserving of a conspicuous place in the flower 

 garden. 



136. GARDENIA DUMETORUM. 



Retz. obs. 2. ft. 14. Ait. hort. Kew. 1 . p. 2 95 . Linn. spec, plant 



edit. Willdenow, I. p. 122 9. 



Gardenia spinosa. Linn, suppl. 164. 

 Manga of the Telingas. 



One of the most common, thorny, ramous, shrubs on the Coast ; 

 there being few uncultivated spots where it is not to be found. 



Flowering; time, the beginning; of the wet season. 



It is employed for fences, and also for firewood. The flowers are 

 few in number, but, like all of this genus, highly fragrant. 



The fruit, when ripe, resembles a small yellow apple ; when 

 bruised and thrown into tanks where there are fish, the fish are soon 

 intoxicated, and seen floating on the surface. If this is practised 

 during the hot season, it is said the fish generally die ; but if in 

 the cold season, they recover. Fishermen sometimes follow this 

 mode of catching fish, which are not on that account deemed less 

 wholesome. Cocculus indicus is not used in these parts for catch- 

 ing fish. 



137. 



GARDENIA FRAGRANS. 



Pedally of the Telingas. 



Leaves opposite on the young shoots, fascicled on the old ; short- 

 petiol'd, oblong, on both sides smooth and glossy, from two to 

 three inches long, and one, or one and a half inch broad ; hol- 

 low glands in the axils of the large nerves, with hairy borders. 



Stipules connecting the petioles, acute. 



when brought into a good soil, the thorns almost totally disappear. 

 Flowers about the beginning of the rains, in June and July. 



I know of no use this species is applied to, unless for making 

 fences, for which it is well adapted ; especially when the produce 

 of a poor barren soil, being then well armed with strong thorns. 

 The flowers, like those of the other species, delightfully fragrant. 



138. 



ANTHERICUM TUBEROSUM. 



Cushellie of the Telingas. 



Roots : many, fleshy, round fibres, each ending in a small oblong 



knob. They are perennial. 

 Leaves radical, many, sword-form ; margins waved, smooth ; from 



one to two feet long, and from two to four inches broad. 

 Scape round, smooth, naked, from one to three feet long. 

 Panicle oblong, erect. 





about 



pearance like the snow-drop. 



Filaments equal, simple, short, ascending. Anthers linear, erect. 

 Style ascending, projects rather beyond the anthers. Stigma lopp'd 

 Capsule three-sided. 



Is a native of the moist vallies among the Circar mountains 

 Flowering time the rainy season. 



139. 



LORANTHUS BICOLOR. 



Yellinga-wadinika of the Telingas (Wadinika means parasitical). 



b 



Trunk scarcely any. 



Branches numerous, ascending, woody. Bark grey. 



Leaves nearly opposite, sessile, or very short petioled; 



oblong, or lanced ; above linear-lanced, waved, entire, re- 

 clin'd, veins scarcely any ; from three to five inches long, and 

 from a half to one and a half broad. 



Racemes axillary, single, simple, erect, many-flower'd. 



Flowers in size and appearance, very like those of honey-suckle. 



Bract small, concave, hearted ; presses on the base of the germs on 



one side. There is no other perianth of the fruit than the 

 above-mentioned bract ; that of the flower cup-form, entire, 



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permanent. 

 Corol one petal'd : tube long, a little curved, swelling from the 



bottom to within a third of the mouth, then contracts a little ; 

 border five-parted, upper fissure much the deepest: segments 

 linear, reflected. 





