Gardenia. pentandria monogynia. 703 



ed, villous. Capsule two-lobed, transverse, breadth twice the 

 height, two-celled, opening round the apex. Seeds, &c. as 

 in O. Mungos, Gart. Carp. i. 264. t. 55. 



GARDENIA. Sckreb. gen. N. 416. 



Calyx with the divisions uncertain. Corol funnel-shaped. 

 Germ inferior, one-celled, with numerous ovula, attached to 

 two or more parietal receptacles. Berry one-celled, many- 

 seeded. Embryo furnished with a perisperm, directions va- 

 rious. 



With Jussieu, Lamarck, Geertner and others, I have at last 

 separated the Gardenias with a one-celled seed vessel and 

 parietal receptacles from those which are two-celled, with 

 the receptacles attached to the partition. To those still called 

 Gardenia belong the following unarmed species, viz. G.fio- 

 rida, calyculata, costata, latifolia, arborea, lucida, gummi- 

 fera, tetrasperma, montana, and the two armed species, tur- 

 gida, and campamdata. And to the latter (Posocpteria) 

 belong uliginosa, dumetorum, nutans, longispina,fragrans, 

 fasticulata, and longiflora, all of which are armed. 



SECT. I. Unarmed. 



1. G.florida. Willd. spec. i. 1223. 



Shrubby, unarmed. Leaves oval, acute at both ends. 

 Berries long, turbinate, with as many sharp ridges as there 

 are divisions in the calyx. 



Sans. G?mdhwraja. 



Beng. Gundhnraj. 



Catsjopiri. Rumph. Amb. vii. 26. t. H.f. 2. 



A large, very ramous shrub, found in gardens about Cal- 

 cutta, and originally from China. 



Thunberg's description of it is the best I have seen, I can 

 only add that the flowers are axillary for the most part, and 

 that in the calyx I have always found a small inflected tooth- 



