Gardenia, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 703. 
ed, villous. Capsule two-lobed, transverse, breadth twice the 
height, two-celled, opening round. the apex. Seeds, &e. as 
in O. Mungos, Gert, Carp. i. 264, t. 55, 7 
GARDENIA. Schreb. gen. N. 416. | 
Calyx with the divisions uncertain. Corol funnel-shaped, 
Germ inferior, one-celled, with numerous ovula, attached to 
two or more parietal receptacles. Berry one-celled, many- 
seeded. Embryo furnished with a perisperm, directions va- 
rious, 3 
With Jussieu, Lamarck, Geertner and others, I have at last 
Separated the Gardenias with a one-celled seed vessel and 
parietal receptacles from those which are two-celled, with 
the receptacles attached to the partition. To those still called 
Gardenia belong the following unarmed species, viz. G. flo- 
rida, calyculata, costata, latifolia, arborea, lucida, gummi- 
Jera, tetrasperma, montana, and the two arnied species, tur- 
gida, and campanulata, And to the latter ( Posoqueria) 
belong wliginosa, dumetorum, nutans, longispina, fragrans, 
Sasticulata, and longiflora, all of which are armed, — 
SECT. I. Unarmed. 
1. G. florida, Willd. spec. i, 1225. | 
_ Shrubby, unarmed. Leaves oval, acute at both Soda 
Berries long, turbinate, with as many sharp ridges as there 
are divisions in the calyx. , 
Sans. Gandhuraja, 
Beng. Gundhuraj. ; 
-Catsjopiri. Rumph, Amb. vii. i. 26. t. 4. sf 2. 
A large, very ramous shrub, found in gardens about Cal-. 
cutta, and originally from China, 
Thunberg’s description of it is the best. I have seen, I can 
only add that the flowers are axillary for the most part, and 
that in the calyx I have always found a small inflected tooth- 
