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2 ESSAYS anp OBSERVATIONS 
the privilege of a firft difcoverer, fhe was 
pleafed to call this new plant Gardenia, in 
compliment to Dr Garden, 
The Defeription of the GARDENtA, fent by 
Dr Garden to Mi/s Colden, 
AN O'N’*Y M*O'S. 
POLYADELPHIA ENNEANDRIA. 
Raprx perpendicularis, in defcenfu fibras 
aliquot, at plures cirros, emittens, 
feniim attenuatur, fimplex, mollis. 
Cav rs fimplex, fruticofus, teres, rectus, 
ex alis foliorum internodiis fefqui- 
pollicaribus laterales emittens ra- 
mulos, lineam craflus, cubitum plus 
minus altus, cavus, annuus, glaber. 
Fora fimplicia, feflilia, patula, bina ex 
oppofito alternata, integerrima, ob- 
tufa, ovata, cordata in duo auricu- 
Ja, circa caulem fupra fe invicem 
expanfa, ad bafin extenduntuy, ni- 
tida, fuperne viridia, inferne glau- 
ca, rervo medio infra prominulo, 
pundiis lucidis Ayperzc: foliorum 
dimidium pol- 
licis 
inftar peiforata 
