NAT. ORDER. 



Ruhiacca. 



GARDENIA FLORIDA. * CAPE JASMINE. 



Class V. Pentandria. Order I. Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Calyx, an ovate ribbed tube. Corolla, funnel-shaped. 

 Anthers, from five to nine, linear. Stigma, clavate. Ovarium, 

 one-celled, half divided. Berry, fleshy, crowned. Seeds, minute. 

 Mowers, axillary, terminal, solitary, pale yellow. 



i^e. Cliar. Leaves, elliptic, acute at both ends. Floimrs, solitary, 

 five to nine parted. Berry, five to six angled, five to six celled 

 at the base, and one-celled at the apex, orang-e colored, size of a 

 pigeon's egg. 



This is a shrub from two to six feet high, with numerous stout, 

 woody branches, which bear crowded " foliage towards their extremi- 

 ties ; leaves oval or obovate, acute, subcoriaceous, opposite, often ap- 

 pearing verticillate ; hracteas acute, membranaceous, deciduous ; 

 Jlowers large, solitary, very fragrant ; calyx segmoUs erect, narrow, al- 

 most linear, much shorter than the tube of the corolla ; corolla, pale 

 yellow, somewhat leathery, soon turning quite yellow, hypocrateri- 

 form ; iuhe long, straight ; limb spreading, of six oblong, wavy, obtuse 

 segments ; anthers nearly sessile, linear, situated at the mouth of the 

 corolla ; gcrmcn inferior, scarcely ribbed ; style as long as the tube of 

 the corolla ; stignui thick, bifid, exerted ; the berry is oi-ange colored, 

 about the size of a pigeon's egg, and the pulp is used for dyeing yel- 

 low in China and Japan. It flowers in July and August. 



Gardenia radicans. Rooting Gardenia, or Cape Jasmine. Tlijs 

 is a shrubby plant, from one to two feet high, unarmed : stems radi- 

 VoL. IV.— 164. 



