Gardenia. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 71i 
yellowish white, short-peduncled, crowded on the extremities 
of short, rigid, lateral, spinous branchlets. Ca/ya cylindric, 
five-toothed. Corol with a five-sided, campanulate tube, and 
a border of five obliquely-ovate segments, nthers five, ses- 
sile in the bell of the corol. Germ inferior, one-celled, con- 
taining numerous ovula attached to generally five, parietal 
receptacles, Style short. Stigma somewhat five-grooved, 
and situated deep in the tube. Berry round-ovate, the size 
of a golden pippin, smooth, depressed, and slightly five-fur- 
rowed at the apex and base ; one-celled ; the exterior tunic 
thick, fleshy, yellowish, with slender, hard, longitudinal fi- 
bres interspersed, the inner tunic thin and firm, but not bony, 
the edges of which turn in five portions, forming five parietal 
receptacles, Seeds minute, nidulant in a little yellow pulp. 
Perisperm conform to the seed, pale. Embryo straight. Co- 
tyledons round, Radicle cylindric, pointing to the umbilicus, 
Obs. The fruit is used by the natives as a cathartic and an- 
thelmintic, and also to wash out stains in silk, 
a f7G. rabgida: R : 
Arboreous, with swelled mealy bark, beanchies brachiate. 
Thorns opposite and terminal, Leaves obovate, smooth, 
Flowers \ateral, sub-solitary, calyx five-toothed, apices of 
the anthers scarcely peeping from the tube of the smooth 
corol, 
A native of Bhotan, and introduced by Dr. Carey into the 
Botanic garden at Calcutta, where it blossoms during the 
months of March and April, the season when most other 
species of this genus are in flower, but after being twelve 
years in the garden it has not once ripened a single fruit. 
Trunk straight, Bark very thick and spongy, appearing 
as if swollen and somewhat mealy, Branches brachiate, 
drooping short, and covered with bark like that of the trunk. 
Spines opposite, above the axils, and, when not terminal, — 
in form of a small leaf-bearing branchlet, shorter than the 
leaves, © Leaves opposite, sub-sessile, obovate, entire, smooth 
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