CINCHONACE-ffi. 



of powder it is a powerful emetic. An infusion of the bark of the root 

 is employed to nauseate in bowel complaints. 



GARDENIA. 



Calyx usually ribbed, with a tubular truncate limb, divided 

 into several lobes or teeth. Corolla funnel-shaped or approaching 

 salver-shaped, with a tube much larger than the calyx and a 

 contorted spreading 5-9-parted limb. Anthers 5-9, linear, ses- 

 sile in the throat. Stigma clavate, bifid or 2- toothed, with 

 thick erect lobes. Dissepiments of the ovary 2-5, incompletely 

 dividing it into cells. Berry fleshy, crowned with the calyx, 

 with a papery or bony lining, incompletely 2-5-celled. Seeds 

 immersed in fleshy parietal placentae. — Trees or shrubs, armed 

 or unarmed. Flowers axillary or terminal, usually solitary, 

 white and fragrant. 



865. G. campanulata Roxb.fl. ind. i. 710. DC. prodr. iv. 383. 

 — Forests of Chittagong. 



Trunk straight, but short, soon dividing and subdividing into nume- 

 rous stiff, erect, and spreading branches. Bark of the old parts 

 brownish-green, and pretty smooth ; that of the tender parts lighter 

 coloured ; height of the shrub in 5 years, from 5 to 10 feet. Thorns 

 single, short, strong, and sharp, generally terminating the little, la- 

 teral, opposite branchlets. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, broad- 

 lanceolate, tapering most towards the base, entire, and smooth on both 

 sides, from 2 to 5 inches long, and from 1 to 2 broad. Stipules tri- 

 angular, acute. Flowers small, of a pale yellowish-white, short- 

 peduncled, crowded on the extremities of short, rigid, lateral, spinous 

 branchlets. Calyx cylindrical, 5-toothed. Corolla with a 5-sided, 

 campanulate tube, and a border of 5 obliquely ovate segments. An- 

 thers 5, sessile in the bell of the corolla. Ovary 1-celled, containing 

 numerous ovules attached to generally 5 parietal receptacles. Style 

 short. Stigma somewhat 5-grooved, and situated deep in the tube. 

 Berry round-ovate, the size of a golden pippin, smooth, depressed, and 

 slightly 5-furrowed at the apex and base ; 1-celled ; the exterior tunic 

 thick, fleshy, yellowish, with slender, hard, longitudinal fibres inter- 

 spersed, the inner tunic thin and firm, but not bony, the edges of which 

 turn inwards in 5 lines, forming 5 parietal placentae. Seeds minute, 

 nidulant in a little yellow pulp. — The fruit is employed by the natives 

 of India as a cathartic and anthelmintic. Roxb. 



Tribe III. Hedyotide^e. 



Fruit capsular, 1-celled, with a loculicidal dehiscence, or mem. 

 branous and indehiscent ; cells many-seeded. Seeds not winged. 

 Albumen fleshy. — Shrubs or herbaceous plants. Leaves opposite. 

 Stipules interpetiolar. 



CONDAMINEA. 



Calyx campanulate, 5-crenate or 5-toothed ; limb deciduous. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped, with a somewhat curved tube, which is a 



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