Gardenia. pent \ndria monogynja. 705 



Berry drupaceous, oval, five-ribbed, one-celled, shell two- 

 vahed. 



A native of the mountainous parts of India. From those 

 of Cbittagong, it has been introduced into the Botanic garden 

 at Calcutta; where, in ten or twelve years it has arrived to the 

 size of a small elegant tree. It blossoms in April, and the seeds 

 take nearly one year to ripen. 



Trunk straight, in twelve years old trees eighteen inches 

 circumference. The branches expand but little, the bark of the 

 ligneous parts is smooth and ash coloured, that of the young 

 shoots round, and somewhat harsh, with short, adpressed 

 hairs ; whole height from ten to twenty feet. Leaves opposite, 

 short petioled, oblong, and cuneiform-oblong, smooth, when 

 young resinous, entire, pointed ; veins numerous, large, and 

 parallel ; length from six to twelve inches, and the breadth 

 from three to five. Stipules interfoliaceous, supporting the 

 leaves. Flowers terminal, or nearly so, very large, the tube 

 being above three inches long, and the border above four in 

 diameter; when they first expand at day-break, they are 

 white, but in the course of the day change to a pretty deep 

 yellow, powerfully fragrant. Calyx cylindric ; month irre- 

 gularly divided into five lobes; outside resinous, and strong- 

 ly marked with live, very prominent angles, caducous. (In 

 my lucida, which this resembles most, it is permanent, smooth 

 on the outside, and deeply divided into five uniform segments.) 

 Corol; tube cylindric; border of five obliquely ovate seg- 

 ments. Anthers five, sessile, completely within the mouth of 

 the tube, of two filiform lobes. Germ clavate, five-angled, 

 and one-celled, with numerous ovula attached to two opposite 

 receptacles, rising from the sides of the cell, as in Gsertner's 

 figure of Chironia baccifera, carp. 2. t. 1 14. Style the length 

 of the tube. Stigma rather above the tube, large, and con- 

 sisting of two variously grooved lobes. Berry drupaceous, 

 oblong, ventricose, smooth, yellow; five strong vertical ribs 

 run ite whole length. Pulp yellow, soft and rather foetid, 

 one-celled. Shell thick, hard, and two-valved. Seeds nu- 

 vol. i. Si 



