RUBIACEAE. 345 
GARDENIA. Cape Jessamine. 
(Family Rubiaceae). 
Shrubs: evergreen. Twigs mode- 
rate, rounded or finally 4-sided: 
pith relatively large, somewhat 
crenately angled, green, continu- 
ous. Buds small and naked with- 
in a supra-axillary sheath or with 
a single enveloping scale when 
terminal. Leaf-scars opposite or 
in whorls of 3, slightly raised, 
small, half-round; bundle-traces 
7, the central one large and cres- 
cent-shaped. Leaves nearly  ses- 
sile, with their stipules connate in 
a tube above each node. 
The sheathing stipules of Gar- 
denia florida are shown by Lub- 
bock, on Buds and Stipules, f. 
133. 
Though gardenias are known in 
the North only as conservatory 
plants, their fragrant large white 
flowers are handled by florists to a considerable extent in 
winter. In the South they are favorite out-of-door plants. 
Unless the flowers are removed, they fail to fall promptly, 
and neglected plants become untidy as neglected perpetual- 
flowering roses do. 
Twigs harsh-pubescent: leaves very glossy above. 
G. jasminoides. 
