Gardenia. pentandria monogynia. 700 



flowers of tins species, renders it more deserving 1 of a place in 

 our gardens than any species I know ; I may even say, than 

 G. florida. 



The natives eat the ripe fruit. 



7. G. gummifera, Linn. Suppl. 1G4. 



Shrubby, with resinous gems. Leaves oblong, obtuse- 

 pointed. Divisions of the calyx ovate, acute, and very short. 

 Tube of the corol as long- as the divisions of its border. 



Native of Coromandel. 



In a specimen in the Banksian herbarium, the divisions of 

 the calyx are long-, slender, and acute. 



8. G. tetrasperma. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves obovate-cuneate, smooth. Flowers 

 axillary, solitary, short-peduncled, pentandrous. Calycine 

 segments subulate. Berry round, four-seeded. 



Found by Colonel Hardwicke on the mountains near Shree- 

 nuour. See Asiatic Researches, vi. 354. 



SECT. II. Armed. 



9. G. montana. R. 



Arboreous. Leaves oblong-ventricose, downy underneath, 

 terminal, short-peduncled. Stamens within the belly of the 

 tube. Berry drupaceous, sub-rotund ; shell from five to six. 



valved. 



Telinga. Telia kukisha. 



A small, ramous tree ; armed with strong, short, acute 

 thorns; a native of the Circar mountains. Leaves decidu- 

 ous in December. It flowers about the beginning of the hot 

 season, viz. in March and April, soon after which the leaves 

 appear. Bark white, soft and spongy. 



Thorns above the axills, opposite, spreading, short, but 

 sharp • sometimes they are wanting. Leaves opposite on the 

 young shoots, fascicled on the older, nearly sessile, oblong, 



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