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Japan and China, and cultivated in India. (Hooker and Thomson, 

 rior. Ind., iii., p. 115 ; Eoxb., Flor. Ind,, i., p. 703 ; Wall., Cat. 

 8268 ; Willd., Spec, i., 1225). Its vSanskrit and Bengalee name 

 is " Gundhuraja." It is the " Catsjopiri of Kumphius (Amb., vii., 

 p. 26, t. 14, f. 2). In China, where its flowers are used for scenting 

 tea, it is called " Pak-sema-hwa." An erect shrub of 2 feet to 6 

 feet in height, much branched, unarmed. Leaves elliptic, acute 

 at both ends. Flowers solitary, almost terminal, sessile, salver- 

 shaped, white, sweet-scented, 5- to 9-parted ; calycine segments 

 vertical, lanceolate-subulate, equalling the tube of the corolla in 

 length. Berry elongated, turbinate, ribbed, 5- to 6-celled at the 

 base, 1 -celled at the apex, orange-coloured, size of a pigeon's egg ; 

 the pulp is used for dyeing yellow in China and Japan. 



Va7\ /3, flor ple7io ; Syn. G. jasminoides, Ellis, in Phil. Trans., 

 li., t. 23. Jasminuin Capense, Miller, figures of plants 

 described in the Gardeners' Dictionary, t. 180 ; Eumph., 

 Amb,, vii., t. 14, f. 2. Flow^ers sometimes four inches in 

 diameter, double, white. It is one of the finest shrubs 

 in cultivation. 



G. Badicans. Thunberg, Dissertatio de Gardenia, Xo. i., t. i., f. i. 

 Thunberg, Flora Japonica, t. 20 ; Bot. Eeg., t. 73 ; Bot. Eep., t. 

 491. A shrubby, unarmed plant, 1 to 2 feet in height ; stems 

 radicant, leaves lanceolate ; flowers solitary, almost terminal and 

 nearly sessile, salver-shaped ; white, very fragrant : segments 

 of the calyx vertical, linear-subulate, equal in length to the tube of 

 the corolla. Xative of Japan and cultivated in the East Indies and 

 at the Cape of Good Hope. 



G. ccdycidata. Eoxb., Flor. Ind., ii., p. 550. A native of the 

 mountainous parts of India, arboreous, unarmed. Leaves ovate, 

 petiolate, acunnnated, smooth. Flowers terminal, solitary, sessile, 

 involucrated ; calycine segments ensiform. Anthers enclosed with- 

 in the swelling tube of the 5 -cleft corolla. Flowers large, white, 

 and, like most of the genus, fragrant. 



G. Costcda. Eoxb., Flor. Ind., ii., p. 550. Syn. G. coronaria in 

 Symes' Account of an Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava, p. 474, 

 with a figure. A tree of 20 feet in height, unarmed, leaves 

 cuneiform-oblong, smooth, ribbed; length 6 to 12 inches, and 

 breadth from 3 to 5 inches ; flowers terminal, or nearly so, very 



