484 ODOROGEAPIIIA. 



forests of the Sikkim Himalaya and on the Khasia Hills at alti- 

 tudes of 4,000 to 5,000 feet. Leaves ovate-oblong, acute or obtuse, 

 glabrous ; 8 to 20 inches long, 4 to 9 inches wide, petiole 1 to 2 

 inches. Flowers white, fragrant ; peduncle short, thick ; buds sub- 

 o-lobose, 2 to 3 inches in diameter. Pruit ovoid, 4 to 6 inches ; 

 carpels sharply beaked. 



T. lanifjrra. A tree inhabiting the Eastern part of the 

 peninsula of India. Leaves lanceolate, acute at both ends, 

 glabrous, 12 inches long by five inches wide, petiole 1 inch. 

 Flowers large, odorous ; peduncle densely tomentose. Sepals 3, 

 tomentose, at length glabrate, petals about S, oblong, fleshy, 

 exceeding the sepals. 



Aromadendron elegans, Blume, Bijdr. Flor. Lid. Xed., i., 

 p. 10 ; also Flor. Jav. fasc, 19, p. 25, t. 7 and 8. A large elegant 

 tree of the Order Magnoliace^e, 80 to 140 feet in height ; native of 

 Java, on the mountains. It has oblong-lanceolate leaves, and 

 terminal, solitary, large, white, very fragrant flowers, at length 

 changing to a straw colour. The calyx consists of 1 spathaceous 

 leaf. Petals very narrow and very numerous, about 28, disposed 

 in a fpiarternary order. Stamens numerous, awl-shaped, anthers 

 bursting outwardly. The flowers diffuse their fragranc^e to a 

 considerable distance. Carpels 2-seeded, joined together into egg- 

 shaped ligneous fruit. The genus is easily distinguished from 

 TaJauiaa by the number of the petals. The bark is a grateful 

 aromatic bitter. 



Gardenia. 



A oenus of Cinchonacew, consisting of trees or shrubs, frequently 

 spiny, indigenous in tropical Asia and Africa, also at the Cape of 

 Good Hope. This genus is valued for the beauty and fragrance of 

 its flowers, whicli are axillary or terminal^ usually solitary, and 

 white. 



G, Florida, Lin. spec, p. 305. Bot. Keg., t. 449. Syn. G. 

 jasminoicks, Soland, Phil. Trans., lii.,t. 20. Plukenett, Amaltheum 

 botanicum, t. 448, f. 4. Jasminum Caimise, Mill. Diet., Xo. 7 ; 

 fio-ures of plants, t. 180. Ehret., Plantae rariores, t. 15. Native of 



