70S pentandiua monogynia. Gardenia, 



beautiful, large, pure white, fragrant flower. Calyx five- 

 cleft. Segments ensiform, with the margins incurved, so as 

 become subulate; permanent. Corol ; tube cyYmdric, smooth, 

 from one to two inches long, which is more than twice the 

 length of the calyx. Border five parted ; divisions oblique- 

 ly obovate-oblong, about the length of the tube. Filaments 

 none. Anthers five, very long, slender and acute, half hid 

 in the tube of the corol, and affixed by their backs to its 

 mouth. Germ oblong, even, one-celled, containing numerous 

 ovula attached to two parietal receptacles. Style length of the 

 tube of the corol. Stigma clavate, exert. Berry drupace- 

 ous oblong, size of a pigeon's egg, smooth, crowned with the 

 permanent calyx, one-celled, its inner lamina of a bony hard- 

 ness, turning into the cell on opposite sides, but soon separat- 

 ed into two receptacles each. Seeds numerous, attached to 

 the just mentioned receptacles. Perisperm conform to the 

 seed. Embryo with two cordate cotyledons, and a cylin- 

 dric radicle pointing to the umbilicus. 



Obs. The total want of pubescence, structure of the sti- 

 pules, length of the calyx, and sharpness of its divisions, dis- 

 tinguish this from G. gummij'era, which it most resembles. 



6. G. arborea. R. 



Arboreous, unarmed. Leaves ovate-oblong. Flowers ter- 

 minal, often three-fold, sub-sessile; tube filiform ; border five- 

 parted. Berry drupaceous, even ; shell four or five-valved. 



Tarn. Karinga marum. 



Teling. Garga. 



A native of the Circar mountains. Its leaves are decidu- 

 ous during the cold season, and it continues naked till the 

 hot season is pretty far advanced. Flowering time the be- 

 ginning of the hot season while the tree is naked of leaves. 



From the buds and wounds made in the bark there exudes 

 a very beautiful yellow resin, like that from Gardenia gum- 

 mijera. 



The size, number, fragrance, mutability and beauty of the 



