704 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Gardenia, 
like process at the bottom of each fissure, which exists also 
in that of the ripe berry, The seeds nestle in a firm, deep 
orange-coloured pulp, which is a substance employed for 
dyeing in some parts of Iudia. 
To distinguish it from Gardenia sulcata, Gert. carp. iii. 
p. 78. tab. 194, 1 will add the following account of the fruit 
of this species. Germ turbinate, from five to six, acute-an- 
gled ; at the base from three to five-celled ; above one-celled, 
with from three to five parietal receptacles, to which the nu- 
merous ovula are attached. Berry oblong, orange-coloured, 
smooth, the size of a pigeon’s egg, down the sides run six 
equi-distant ribs, a continuation of the permanent, ensiform 
segments of the calyx, one-celled. Receptacles generally 
four, projecting from the lining of the cell to about one-fourth 
of its diameter, when they divide into two or more portions. 
Seeds numerous, nidulant in orange pulp, roundish, a little 
compressed, rugose ; ‘mode of ‘attachment on the ripe fruit 
obscure, FPerisperm conform to the seed, pale... Embryo — 
straight, nearly as long as the perisperm. Cotyledons two, 
cordate. Radice straight, pointing to, very near to the um- 
bilicus, 3 SEC oe 
2. G. ealyculata, R. | 
Arboreous. Leaves petioled, ovate, acuminate, smooth, 
Flowers terminal, solitary, sessile, germ involuered: _Caly- 
cine segments ensiform, _Authers within the swelling tube of — 
the five-cleft corol, _ : : BPE: Sad 
‘Native place uncertain ; some -thictis years: ago, it was 
brought from Hydradad to Lord Pigot at Madras, who 
planted it in his garden there, where it was pointed . out to 
me by Lady Clive in. 1798. The flowers are lanes alse, 
and like most of the genus, Gatows rier S 
_ G. costata, R, 
