_ Posoqueria. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 713 
ering time the beginning of the hot season, and in some mea- 
sure all the year. The seeds ripen in the cool season, 
Trunk short, covered with a dark, rust-coloured, scabrous 
bark, Branches, some stiffly erect, very rigid, four-comer- 
ed, thick. set with short, round, diverging, decussated branch- 
lets; others spreading. Thorns one, two, three, or four, at 
the extremities of the short, round branchlets just: mention- 
ed, Leaves opposite, on the young shoots, fascicled at the 
extremities of the branchlets, short-petioled, oblong, smooth, 
shining, entire, from two to three inches long, by one and 
a half broad, Stipules within the leaves as in the rest of the 
genus, Flowers one, two, or three upon their proper short 
peduncles, at the extremites of ‘the branchlets, large, white 
and fragrant. Calyx tubular, obtusely five-toothed, perma- 
nent, ‘Corol, mouth of the tube shut up with much white 
hair. Border flat, from five to eight-cleft; divisions orbicu- 
lar. Nectary a fleshy, angular ring surrounding the base of 
the style. Germ inferior, two-celled, each containing numer- 
ous ovula, attached toa crescent-shaped receptacle in each 
cell, ‘vertically united to the middle of the partition. Berry. 
two-celled, size and shape of a pullet’s egg, bark ash-colour- 
ed, or olive gray; pulp in Jarge quantity, hard and dry. 
Seeds numerous, oval; flattened, nidulant, Enheuntuit 
ed. with a perisperm, its direction various, 
The flowers of this species render it deserving of a conspi, 
cuous place in the flower garden, The uncommon appear- 
ance of the plant is also in its favour. 
yt iP; dumetorum, Willd. i ae | ee ee one icy 
Sub-arboreous, armed. Leaves dbowites ‘vhows iawn, 
and terminal, solitary ; twbe short, border a ney 
drupaceous, spherical. pi 
Gardenia dumetorum, Willd. i, 1229, tes eee 
_G, spinosa, Suppl. Plant. p. 164, “aldo Stade 
| Telinga, Manga. — 
bia 39290 of the most common, thorny, ramous shrubs, 
