- 706 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Gardenia. 
merous, small, shape very irregular, but always much flatten- 
ed, nidulant in dark-coloured, soft pulp. It is only in the 
germ that their insertion can be clearly traced. — Intequment 
hard and two-valved. Perisperm soft. Embryo straight, 
nearly as long as the perisperm. Cotyledons ovate. Radicle 
as long’ as the cotyledons, and pointing directly to the umbi- 
licus which is generally the most pointed end of the seed. 
4. G, latifolia, Willd. spec. i, 1226. 
~ Arboreous, unarmed. Leaves opposite, or tern, ini 
ovate. lowers terminal, three-fold, sessile, from eight to 
nine-cleft. Berry = — hem, one-celled, five- — 
valved. ' 
Hind, Papara, © 
Gardenia enneandra. Konig’s Mss. 
Telinga, Caringua. 
~ Is a native of barren rocky hills both in the Citcare, and 
Carnatic, like the other species it flowers about the beginning 
of the hot season, and the seeds take nearly one year to ripen, 
By slow growth it becomes a small tree, with sub-erect 
branches, covered with smooth, ash-coloured bark. | Leaves 
either opposite, or three-fold, ina good soil always three-fold, 
nearly sessile, inserted into the stipulary ring, obovate, entire, 
_ of a deep shining greenon the upper side, paler on the lower; 
veins many and large, running parallel; in their axills are 
hollow glands, with hairy margins ; from six to twelve inches 
Jong. Stipules annular within the leaves, splitting irregular- 
ly when old. Flowers one, two, three, or four, at the extre- 
mities of the branchlets, very large, very fragrant ; when they 
first open in the morning white, gradually growing yellow 
before night. Peduncles short, one-fiowered. Calyx small, 
jiregularly divided. Corol; tube long, cylindric, smooth. 
Border large, spreading, from seven to eleven-cleft, divisions 
- obliquely f oblong, the length of the tube. . Filaments none. 
_ Anthers « nding with the number of segments in the 
= ‘una Pie eerie pointed at — heliseeunee” 
