Gardenia, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 705 
Berry Mra pRboows, oval, five-ribbed, one-celled, shell two- 
valved, 
\ A native of the mountainous + parts of India, From those 
of Chittagong, it has been introduced into the Botanic garden 
at Calcutta; where, in ten or twelve years it has arrived to the 
size of a small elegant tree, It blossoms in April, and the seeds 
take nearly one year to ripen. 
Trunk straight, in twelve years old trees sakes laches 
circumference, The branches expand but little, the bark of the 
ligneous parts is smooth and ash-coloured, that of the young 
shoots round, and somewhat harsh, with short, adpressed 
hairs ; whole height from ten to twenty feet.. Leaves opposite, 
short-petioled, oblong, and cuneiform-oblong, smooth, when _ 
young resinous, entire, pointed ; veins numerous, large, and 
parallel ; length from six to twelve inches, and the breadth 
from three to five, Stipules interfoliaceous, supporting the 
leaves, Flowers terminal, or nearly so, very large, the tube 
being above three inches Jong, and the horder above four in 
diameter ;, when they first expand at day-break, they are 
white, but in the course of the day change to a pretty deep 
yellow, powerfully fragrant, Calyx cylindric ; mouth irre- 
gularly divided into five, lobes outside resinous, and strong- 
ly marked with five, very. prominent angles, caducous.. ; (a 
my lucida, which this resembles most, it is permanent, smooth, 
on the outside, and deeply divided into five uniform segments.) 
Corol; tube cylindric; border .of five obliquely ovate seg- 
ments, -Anthers five, sessile, completely within the mouth of. 
the tube, of two filiform lobes. Germ clavate, fiye-angled, 
and one-celled, with numerous ovula attached totwo opposite 
receptacles, rising from. the sides of the cell, as in Geertner’ s 
figure of Chironia baccifera, carp. 2, 1.114. Style the Tength, 
- of the tube, Stigma rather above the tube, large, and con-. 
sisting of two variously grooved lobes, Berry drapaceous, 
oblong, ventricose, smooth, yellow; five strong vertical ribs 
run its whole length, Pulp yellow, soft. and rather foetid, 
one-celled, ‘Shalt thick, ie and two-valved. Seeds nu- 
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