1"6 MADUKK FAMILY. 



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

 either in pairs or threes, and with >lu>rt .-tipules between them ; the head of 

 white flowers about 1' in diain> 



6. COFFEA, COFFEK-THKK. (The Aral, i,- name somewhat altered.) 



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

 sometimes cult, in conservatories, wit), smooth and glossy oblong leaves, hearing 

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

 nair of seeds. 



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

 by Michaux in honor of <!m. Pinckney.) 



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

 pine barrens, S. Car. to Georgia, with large oral 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 ('INCHONA tir PKKIVIAN 

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



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

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

 Dr. (Garden of South Carolina, who corresponded with Linn.Tus.) 



G. flprida, CVTK JESSAMINE. A favorite house-plant from China, 2-4 

 high, with smooth and bright-green oblong leave* acute at both ends, )ar:;-e and 

 showy very fragrant llowers, the white corolla o-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- 

 ilcn of Plants over a centurv uiio.) 



B. tl'iphylla. Shrubby or half-shrubby house-plants, hlo-*omiiiLr through 

 the winter, ami in grounds in summer, from Mexico, with ovate or ohlon-- 

 ovate smoothish leaves, in threes or the upper in pairs, and .-carle t corolla, 

 minutely downy outride, nearly 1' long. 



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

 and smooth deep-scarlet corolla. 



10. HOUSTONIA. (Named by Linmeus for a Dr. Houston, an Enuli>h 

 physician, who botani/.ed on the coast of Mexico, where he died earlv.) 



* Delicate !/t//r />f,ints, u-it/i I-/A<vr,,/ peduncles, jlowerinq from ,,n-!i/ s/n-in<i l<\ 

 sum in,-!- : ,-oroHn ^ili;r-j>,nn: /></ xnmi irlmt 2-lobed, its upper half free i 

 seeds with a deep hole <icfi</>//i//i/ tin 1 /'m-, . 



H. CSerillea, C..MM..V H. or BLI-ETS. Moist banks and grassy places, 

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

 4" long, very slender peduncle, and li-bt blue, purplish, or almost whi'te and 

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



H. minima. Dry hills from 111. S. \V. : n>ii-hi-h. l'-4' hiirh, at len-rth 

 much branched and -prcadini: ; with leaves ovate, spatulate, or the upper linear, 

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

 longer than its lubes and tho-e of the ealvx. i 



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

 creeping leafy Stems, peduncles -horter than the roundish leaves and recurved 

 in fruit ; corolla white. ^ 



* * l-:r,-,-t, I,,!/}/-*/, mined, 5'-20'%//, in'th ft,,,,-, ,-s ,' t, rmimil clusters or cymes, 

 at summer: corolla funnel -farm: .swf/s rather saucer-shaped. ^ 



H. purpurea. "\Voudeil or rocky bank*, commoner W. : smooth or slightly 

 downy, with ovate or Ian ..... >late 3 - 5-ribbed leaves, pale purple flowers, and 

 upper half of globular pod free from the calyx. 



