710 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Gardenia, 
obtuse, entire, with the margins revolute, above shining and 
smooth, a little downy underneath, three inches long, by two 
broad. Stéipuf/es annular, within the leaves, membranous. 
Flowers three, four, five, or six, from little buds about the 
extremities of the naked branchlets, pretty large, very fra- 
grant, when first open white, but soon becoming more or less 
yellow. Peduncles short, one-flowered. Calyx small, some- 
what five-toothed, permanent. Corol; tube short, some- 
what gibbous; throat smooth. Border from five to seven- 
cleft ; divisions wedge-shaped, emarginate. Filaments none. — 
Anthers in number equal to the segments of the border of the — 
flowers, linear, entirely within the tube. NVectary a moni- 
fiform, fleshy ring surrounding the insertion of the style. The 
stigma just appears within the tube. Berry the size of a ~ 
pullet’s egg, scabrous, ash-colour and yellow mixed ; an ex- 
terior, pulpy cortex covers a hard bony shell which imme- 
diately encloses the seeds with their pulpy nidus, it is one- 
celled, five or six-valved, and the incurved edges of the 
valves form the parietal receptacles for the seeds, 
10. G. campanulata. R. 
Shrubby, armed. Leaves lanceolar, ‘iidvoth Flowers in - 
terminal and lateral fascicles, Calya five-toothed. Corot 
campanulate ; border five-cleft. Berry round. ) 
A native of the forests of Chittagong. Flowering t time eo 
month of March ; seed ripe in November. 
Trunk ‘straight, but short, soon dividing < and suai 
into numerous, stiff, erect, and spreading branches. Bark of 
the old parts brownish green, and pretty smooth ; that of the” 
tender parts lighter sarourea | height of the “ee in five” 
years, from five to ten feet. Thorns single, short, strong, and 
sharp, they generally terminate the little, lateral, “opposite 
branchlets, Leaves opposite, short- petioled, broad-lanceolate, 
most toward the base, entire, and smooth on both 
‘om two to five inches long, and from one fo two" 
1 caibbetegtae 
Rares sess 
ar, acute, 1 fowers small,'o — 
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