176 MADDER FAMILY. 



ders of ponds and streams, with lance-oblong or ovate-pointed leaves, on petioles, 

 either in pairs or threes, and with short stipules between them ; the head of 

 white flowers about 1' in diameter- 



6. COFFEA, COFFEE-TREE. (The Arabic name somewhat altered.) 

 C. Arabica, the species which produces Coffee, is a shrub or small tree, 



sometimes cult, in conservatories, with smooth and glossy oblong leaves, bearing 

 fragrant white flowers in their axils, followed by the red berries, containing the 

 pair of seeds. 



7. PINCKNEYA, GEORGIA BARK or FEVER-TREE. (Named 

 by Michaux in honor of Gen. Pinckney.) 



P. pilbens, the only species, is a rather downy small tree or shrub, in wet 

 pine barrens, S. Car. to Georgia, with large oval leaves, slender stipules, and 

 purplish flowers of little beauty, but the great calyx-leaf commonly produced is 

 striking. This plant is of the same tribe with the CINCHONA or PERUVIAN 

 BARK, and has similar medicinal (tonic) properties. Fl. early summer. 



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8. GARDENIA, CAPE JESSAMINE. Not an appropriate name, as the 

 species so called does not belong to the Cape of Good Hope. (Named for 

 Dr. Garden of South Carolina, Avho corresponded with Linnasus.) 



G. florida, CAPE JESSAMINE. A favorite house-plant from China, 2 -4 

 high, with smooth and bright-green oblong leaves acute at both ends, large and 

 showy very fragrant flowers, the white corolla 5 - 9-lobed, or full double, and 

 large oblong orange-colored berry 5 - 6-angled and tapering at the base. 



9. BOUVARDIA. (Named for Dr. Bouvard, director of the Paris Gar- 

 den of Plants over a century ago.) 



B. triphylla. Shrubby or half-shrubby house-plants, blossoming through 

 the winter, and in grounds in summer, from Mexico, with ovate or oblong- 

 ovate smoothish leaves, in threes or the upper in pairs, and scarlet corolla, 

 minutely downy outside, nearly 1' long. 



B. leiantha, now commoner and winter-blooming, has more downy leaves 

 and smooth deep-scarlet corolla. 



10. HOUSTONIA. (Named by Linnaeus for a Dr. Houston, an English 

 physician, who botanized on the coast of Mexico, where he died early. ) 



# Delicate little plants, with I -flowered peduncles, flowering from early spring to 



summer : corolla salver-form : pod somewhat 2-lobed, its upper half free : 

 seeds with a deep hole occupying the face. 



H. cserulea, COMMON H. or BLUETS. Moist banks and grassy places, 

 3'- 5' high, smooth and slender, erect, with oblong or spatulate leaves only 3" or 

 4" long, very slender peduncle, and light blue, purplish, or almost white and 

 yellowish-eyed corolla, its tube much longer than the lobes. @ 



H. minima. Dry hills from 111. S. W. : roughish, l'-4' high, at length 

 much branched and spreading ; with leaves ovate, spatulate, or the upper linear, 

 earlier peduncles slender, the rest short, and tube of the purplish corolla not 

 longer than its lobes and those of the calyx. (T) (2) 



H. rotundif61ia. Sandy soil from North Carolina S. : with prostrate and 

 creeping leafy stems, peduncles shorter than the roundish leaves and recurved 

 in fruit ; corolla white. 2/ 



* * Erect, leafy-stemmed, 5- - 20' high, with floivers in terminal clusters or cymes, 



in summer : corolla funnel -form : seeds rather saucer-shaped. 2/ 



H. purptirea. Wooded or rocky banks, commoner W. : smooth or slightly 

 downy, with ovate or lanceolate. 3 - 5-ribbed leaves, pale purple flowers, and 

 upper half of globular pod free from the calyx. 



