708. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNITA, Gardenia. 
beautiful, large, pure white, fragrant flower. Calyz five- 
cleft. Segments ensiform, with the mareims incurved, so as 
become subulate; permanent. Coro/ ; tube cylindric, smooth, 
from one to two inches long, which is more than twice the 
length of the calyx. . Border five-parted ; divisions oblique- 
ly obovate-oblong, about the length of the tube. Filaments 
none. Anthers five, -very long, slender and acute, half bid 
in the tube of the corol, and affixed by their backs to its 
mouth. Germ oblong, even, one-celled, containing numerous 
ovula attached to two parietal receptacles, Style length of the 
tube of the corol.. Stigma clavate, exert. Berry drupace- 
ous oblong,.size of a pigeon’s egg, smooth, crowned with the 
permanent calyx, one-celled, its inner lamina of a bony hard- 
ness, turning into the cell on op posite sides, but soon separat- 
ed into two receptacles each. Seeds numerous, attached to 
the just mentioned receptacles. Perisperm conform to the _ 
seed. Embryo with two cordate Wises _ a — 
dric radicle pointing to the umbilicus. oo ae 
Obs, The total want of pubescence, structure of the sti- 
pules, length of the calyx, and sharpness of its divisions, dis- 
tinguish this from G.  gummifera, which it most resembles, 
_ 6, G, arborea. R. 
Rie eae unarmed, , gree antsy: Flowers ter- 
minal, often three-fold subsséssilej tube filiform ; border five- 
parte are ae even; shell four or fivecvalvot 
Pag Ganges fee tebapidis. pies ane me ahh 
A native of the Circar wioulitaiads Its leaves are decidu- 
ous during the cold season, and it: continues naked till the 
hot season is pretty far advanced. Flowering time the be- 
ginning of the hot season while the tree is naked of leaves. 
: From the buds and wounds made in the bark there exudes 
bernitl es pew like ome —_ ——- — 
