710 pentandria monogynia. Gardenia. 



obtuse, entire, with the margins revolute, above shining and 

 smooth, a little downy underneath, three inches long, by two 

 broad. Stipules annular, within the leaves, membranous. 

 Flowers three, four, five, or six, from little buds about the 

 extremities of the naked branchlets, pretty large, very fra- 

 grant, when first open white, but soon becoming more or less 

 yellow. Peduncles short, one-flowered. Calyx small, some- 

 what five-toothed, permanent. Corol ; tube short, some- 

 what gibbous; throat smooth. Border from five to seven- 

 clef! ; divisions wedge-shaped, emarginate. Filaments none. 

 Anthers in number equal to the segments of the border of the 

 flowers, linear, entirely within the tube. Nectary a moni- 

 fiform, rlesby ring surrounding the insertion of the style. The 

 stiff ma just appears within the tube. Berry the size of a 

 pullet's egg', scabrous, ash-colour and yellow mixed ; an ex- 

 terior, pulpy cortex covers a hard bony shell which imme- 

 diately encloses the seeds with their pulpy nidus, it is one- 

 celled, five or six-valved, and the incurved edges of the 

 valves form the parietal receptacles for the seeds. 



10. G. campanulata. R. 



Shrubby, armed. Leaves Ianceolar, smooth. Flowers in 

 terminal and lateral fascicles. Calyx five-toothed. Corol 

 campannl ite; border five cleft. Berry round. 



A native of th • forests of Chitta^-ono-. Flowering time the 

 month of March ; seed ripe in November. 



Trvuk straight, but short, soon dividing and subdividing 

 into numerous, 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 five 

 years, from five to ten feet. Thorns single, short, strong, and 

 sharp, they generally terminate the little, lateral, opposite 

 brain hlets. Leaves opposite, short petioled, broad-lanceolate, 

 tapering most toward the base, entire, and smooth on both 

 sides, from two to five inches long, and from one to two 

 broad. Stipules triangular, acute. Flowers small, of a pale 



