Gardenia. pentandria monogynia. Til 



yellowish white, short-peduiuled, crowded on the extremities 

 of short, rigid, lateral, spinous branchlets. Calyx cylindrie, 



five toofhed. Corol with a five-sided, campanulate tube, and 

 a border of five obliquely-ovate segm< nts. Anthem five, ses- 

 sile in the bell of the corol. Germ inferior, one-celled, con- 

 taining- numerous ovula attached to generally five, parietal 

 receptacles. Style short. Stigma somewhat five-grooved, 

 and situated deep in the tube. Berry round-ovate, the size 

 of a golden pippin, smooth, depressed, and slightly five-fur- 

 rowed at the apex and base; one-celled ; the exterior tunic 

 thick, fleshy, yellowish, with slender, hard, longitudinal fi- 

 bres interspersed, the inner tunic thin and firm, but not bony, 

 the edges of which turn in five portions, forming five parietal 

 receptacles. Seeds minute, nidulant in a little yellow pulp. 

 Perisperm conform to the seed, pale. Embryo straight. Co- 

 tylednnx round. Radicle cylindrie, pointing to the umbilicus. 

 Obs. The fruit is used by the natives as a cathartic and an- 

 thelmintic, and also to wash out stains in silk. 



1 1 . G. turyida. R. 



Arboreous, with swelled mealy bark, brauches brachiate. 

 Thorns opposite and terminal. Leaves obovate, smooth. 

 Flowers lateral, sub-solitary, calyx five-toothed, apices of 

 the anlhers scarcely peeping from the tube of the smooth 

 corol. 



A native of Bbotan, and introduced by Dr. Carey into the 

 Botanic garden at Calcutta, where it blossoms during the 

 months of .Much and April, the season when most other 

 species of this genus are in tlower, but after being twelve 

 years in the garden it has not once ripened a single fruit. 



Trunk straight. Bark very thick and spongy, appearing 

 as if swollen and somewhat mealy. Branches brachiate, 

 droopinu short, and covered with bark like that of the trunk. 

 Spines opposite, above the axills, and, when not terminal, 

 in form of a small leaf-bearing branchlet, shorter than the 

 leaves. Leaves opposite, sub-sessile, obovate, entire, smooth 



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