‘ 
Gardenia, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, . 709 
flowers of this species, renders it more deserving of a place in 
our gardens thau any species I know ; 1 may even say, than 
G, florida, 
The natives eat the ripe fruit. 
AG. saeaitea. Sian Suppl, 164, ‘eo. 
' Shrubby, with resinous gems. Leaves oblong, obtuse- 
pointed, Divisions of the calyx ovate, acute, and very short,. 
Tube of the.corol as long as the divisions of its border. 
__Native of Sescenuiel: : 
In a specimen in the Banksian herbarium, the divisions of 
the alr are stene slender, and acute, 
% G. staat R, a 
Shrubby. Leaves enh a ce smooth. Flowers 
axillary, solitary, short-peduncled, pentandrous. Calycine 
segments subulate, Berry round, four-seeded, —_ 7 
Found by Colonel Hardwicke on the mountains near Shree-. 
nugur, See Asiatic Researches, vi, 354, __ eel 
_- anlis fe 
SEC T. IL. Armed. 
“9. ‘G. montana, R, : : 
_ Arboreous. Leaves oblong-ventricose, downy ae est | 
saahina’. short-peduncled, Stamens within the belly o of the 
tube. Berry drupaceous, sub-rotund ; shell from five to six- 
valved. wie 
ae Tella kakisha, sii 
As Famous tree ; armed with stron g, short, acute, 
thorns; a gece of the. er mountains, Leaves decidu- — 
ous in December. It flowers about the beginning of the hot 
season, viz. in March and April, soon after which the leaves | 
appear, Bark white, soft and ; ee ey. 
& , Thorns. above the axills, opposite, spr addin . 
abarps sometimes they are wanting. Leaves ¢ bp poss 
_ young shoots, fascicled on the older, nearly sessile, 0 
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