IQQ NAT. ORDER. RUB1ACE.E. 



it more deserving- of a place in the garden than any other species. — 

 The natives eat the fruit when ripe. It is a native of the East Indies 

 among- the Circars. 



Gardenia kuifoUa. Broad leaved Gardenia. This is a shmb 

 from ten to twelve feet liigh, arboreous, unarmed ; leaves almost ses- 

 sile, ovate or obovate ; in die axils of die veins beneath are hollow 

 glands widi hairy marg-ins ; flowers terminal, from one to four togethe)-, 

 almost sessile, salver-shaped from seven to eleven parted ; limb of the 

 calyx short, subdentatc ; berry drupaceous, round, one-celled, five- 

 valved ; flowers very large and very fragrant — when they first open 

 in the morning white, gradually growing yellow before night ; berry 

 about the size of a pullet's c^g, crowned by a small part only of die 

 tube of the calyx ; leaves opposite or three in a whorl. It is a native 

 of the East Indies on barren rocky hills, in the Circars and Cornatic. 



Gardenia lucida. Shining-leaved Gardenia. This is a middling 

 sized tree, subarboreous, unarmed, wiUi resinous buds ; leaves oblong, 

 smooUi, shining, with lateral simple parallel veins ; flowers almost 

 terminal, solitary, on short pedicels ; lobes of the calyx five, subulate, 

 three times shorter than the tube of the corolla ; berry drupaceous, 

 containing a two-valved shell ; leaves about six inches long and three 

 broad ; peduncles clavate, one to one and a half inch long ; flowers 

 large, purple-white, fragrant, five-parted. Native of Chiltagong and 

 various other parts of India, and of the Island of Luzon. 



Gardenia clusicefoUu. Clusia-leaved Gardenia. This is a slu-ub 

 about five feet in height, unarmed, glabrous ; leaves obovate, retuse 

 and somewhat emarginate, coriaceous, on short petioles ; peduncles 

 almost terminal, racemose ; flowers on long pedicels ; limb of the 

 calyx short, five-toodied ; corolla salver-shaped, with five linear acute 

 segments, which are about the length of the lube ; flowers white, 

 sweet-scented, with a greenish tube ; beriy large, oval ; seeds imbed- 

 ded in the pulp. The internal sti'ucture of the bcny is unknown. It 

 differs from Gardenia in the shape of die stigma and disposition of die 

 flowers. Native of the Bahama Islands, where it is called by the in- 

 habitants Seven Years' Apple. 



