7(X) pentandria MONOGVNiA. Gardenia. 



morons, small, shape very irregular, but always much flatten- 

 ed, nidulant in dark coloured, soft pulp. It is only in the 

 germ that their insertion can be clearly traced. Integument 

 hard and two-valved. Perisperm soft. Embryo straight, 

 nearly as long as the perisperm. Cotyledons ovate. Radicle 

 as long as the cotyledons, and pointing directly to the umbi- 

 licus which is generally the most pointed end of the seed. 



4. G. latifolia. Willd. spec, i. 1226. 



Arboreous, unarmed. Leaves opposite, or tern, sub-sessile, 

 ovate. Flowers terminal, three-fold, sessile, from eight to 

 nine-cleft. Berry drupaceous, round, even, one-celled, five- 

 valved. 



Hind. Pa para. 



Gardenia enneandra. Konig's Jllss. 



Telinga. Caringua. 



Is a native of barren rocky hills both in the Circars, and 

 Carnatic, like the other species it flowers about the beginning 

 of the hot season, and the seeds take nearly one year to ripen. 



By slow growth it becomes a small tree, with sub-erect 

 branches, covered with smooth, ash-coloured bark. Leaves 

 either opposite, or three-fold, in a good soil always three-fold, 

 nearly sessile, inserted into the stipulary ring, obovate, entire, 

 of a deep shining green on the upper side, paler on the lower ; 

 veins many and large, running parallel ; in their axills are 

 hollow glands, with hairy margins; from six to twelve inches 

 lo&g. Stipules annular within the leaves, splitting irregular- 

 ly when old. Flowers one, two, three, or four, at the extre- 

 mities of the branchlets, very large, very fragrant ; when they 

 first open in the morning white, gradually growing yellow 

 before night. Peduncles short, one-flowered. Calyx small, 

 irregularly divided. Corol; tube long, cylmdric, smooth. 

 Border large, spreading, from seven to eleven cleft, divisions 

 obliquely oblong, the length of the tube. Filaments none. 

 Anthers -corresponding with the number of segments in the 

 border of the corol, linear, pointed at both ends, half iinuiers- 



