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394 RUBIACE E. GARDENIA. 
ternally hirsute ; style the length of the tube: fruit at first hairy, afterwards 
nearly or quite glabrous, obovoid.—Linn. sp. p. 251; Wall.! L. n. 6250.— 
M. frondosa, Linn. mant. p. 338.—M. flavescens, Ham. in Linn. soc. trans. 
14. p. 203.—2^ ; branches tomentose ; leaves harshly pubescent on the upper 
side, shortly and rather softly tomentose on the under; calycine leaf broadly 
ovate or oblong.—Wight! cat. n. 1267.—M. frondosa, Vahl, symb. 3. p. 37; 
Willd. sp. 1. p. 997 ; Roxb. fl. Ind. 1. p. 557; (ed. Wall.) 2. p. 227.—M. Do- 
vinia, Ham. l. c.—M. Belilla, Ham. l. c.—Rheed. Mal. 2. t. 18.—8 ; branches 
hirsutely villous ; leaves hirsute on the upper side, hirsutely villous on the 
under; calycine leaf oval, acuminated.— Wight! cat. n. 1268.—9M. frondosa, 
Spr. syst. 1. p. 706 ; Ham. l. c.—Burm. Zeyl. t. 76.—y ; branches puberulous 
or slightly hirsute ; leaves pubescent or almost quite glabrous; calycine leaf 
broadly ovate.—JFight! cat. n. 1269.—M. frondosa, DC. prod. 4. p. 370.— 
3; branches from puberulous to slightly hirsute ; leaves pubescent, or gla- 
brous except on the nerves beneath; calycine leaf oblong-lanceolate.— 
Wight ! cat. n. 1270. 
Although variable as to pubescence, and shape of the calycine-leaf, we 
know that the above are mere states of one species, and we suspect that more 
than one-half of the whole genus enumerated in De Candolle's Prodromus 
ought to be reduced to it. 
1216. (4) M. tomentosa (Wight :) branches somewhat villous : leaves oval, 
acuminated, hirsutely villous on both sides but particularly on the under: 
corymbs not much branched, villous: calycine-segments subulate, somewhat 
unequal, from as long to nearly twice as long as the ovary, none of them ex- 
panding into a leaf: corolla hirsute on the outside: fruit obovoid.— Wight ! 
in Wall.! L.n.6265; cat. n. 1271.——Gingie hills, among large masses of 
loose rocks. 
_ This approaches very closely to M. Landia, Lam., a Mauritius plant. At 
times we have almost been led to doubt if our species were not a form of 
M. frondosa b, without the calycine leaf; the presence or absence of that 
appendage forms the principal difference between them. The flowers are 
white, becoming yellowish before they drop off, and have not the pec 
orange colour of M. frondosa. 
IV. GARDENIA. Ellis; Gertn. fr. t. 23, 177, 193, 194. 
_Calyx-tube ovate, even or ribbed: limb tubular, truncated or toothed or 
divided. Corolla infundibuliform or hypocrateriform: the tube much longer 
than the calyx: limb spreading, 5-9-partite, twisted during sestivation. 
Anthers 5-9, linear, nearly sessile in the throat of the corolla. Ovary with 
2-7 incomplete dissepiments, and hence 1-celled. Stigma clavate, bifid, Oh 
2-toothed ; the lobes thick and erect. Berry fleshy, crowned with the limb 
of the calyx, internally chartaceous or with a nut, imperfectly 2-5-celled. 
Seeds minute, immersed in parietal fleshy placentas.— Trees or shrubs, un- 
armed or thorny. Leaves opposite or sometimes verticillate, oval. Flower 
axillary or terminal, usually solitary, white or at length often becoming 
lowish, generally sweet-scented. 
t 1217. (1) G. enneandra (Koen.:) arboreous, unarmed: leaves opposite ; 
or in threes, nearly sessile, from ovate to obovate, glabrous, with a hay 
gland in the axils of the nerves on the under side: flowers terminal, Le cee 
gether, nearly sessile : limb of the calyx short and irregularly divided: co the : | 
ypocrateriform ; tube long, glabrous; limb 7-11 cleft, the divisions 
m of the tube : berry even, nearly globose, crowned with the base Pn : 
of the calyx ; nut thin, with 5 parietal receptacles.—G. latifolia, por 
Cor. 2. p. 18. t. 134; fl. Ind. 1. p. 706; (ed Wall.) 2. p. 592; DC. prod * 
p. 380 ; Spr. syst. 1. p. 163.—— Circars ; Koenig ; Roxburgh. i 
