488 ' ODOEOGKAPHIA. 



native of Ceylon and Coromandel ; unarmed, buds resinous. 

 Leaves oblong, bluntly acuminated. Flowers axillary, solitary, 

 short-peduncled, white, fragrant. 



G, duslcefolia, Jacquin, Collectanea ad botanicum, p. 37, t. 4, f. 

 3. Catesby, Xat. Hist, of Carolina, i., p. 59, t. 59. An unarmed 

 shrub of 5 feet in height ; leaves obovate, retuse and somewhat 

 emarginate, coriaceous, on short petioles ; peduncles almost 

 terminal, racemose. Flowers on long pedicels, white, with a 

 greenish tube, fragrant: limb of calyx short, 5-toothed; corolla 

 salver-shaped, with 5 linear acute segments which are about the 

 length of the tube. Xative of the Bahama islands, where it is 

 called by the inhabitants " Seven years apple." 



G. tetrasperma, Eoxb., Flor. Ind., ii., p. 555. Gardenia, ^o. 3, 

 Hard wick in As. Res., vi., p. 354. An unarmed shrub, 2 feet in 

 height, leaves obovate-cuneated, smooth. Flowers axillary, solitary, 

 greenish-yellow, fragrant, with a long tube wdiich widens upwards 

 and is partly closed about the middle by a ring of silky down ; 

 calycine segments 5, subulate ; limb of corolla 5-parted ; berry 

 round, 4-seeded. Native of the East Indies, on the mountains near 

 Shreenuoair. 



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G. Thunbergii, Lin. fil. suppL, p. 162. Thunb., Dissertatio ad 

 Gardenia, No. 3. Bot. Mag., t. 1,004. Syn. Thuiibergia Capensis, 

 Lontin, Handlinger svenska vetenscaps, 1,773, t. 11. G. verticillata, 

 Lam. Die, ii., p. 607. G. crassicaulis, Salisbury, Paradisus, 

 Londinensis, t. 46. Sonnerat, Voyage a la Nouvelle Guinee and 

 aux Tildes Orientales, t. 17-18. Journal de Physique, iii., p. 299, 

 t. 3. An unarmed shrub of 3 or 4 feet in height. Leaves elliptic, 

 acute, glabrous, opposite or 3 or 4 in a whorl. Flowers large, 

 white, fragrant, terminal, solitary, sessile, 8-parted ; limb of calyx 

 tubular, cleft laterally : segments dilated at the apex. Berry 

 ovate, 1 -celled. Native of the Cape of Good Hope and the island 

 of Manilla. 



G. Rotlimannia, Lin. fil. supp., p. 165. Thunberg, Dissertatio 

 ad Gardenia, No. 6. Bot. Mag., t. 690. Syn. Rotlimannia 

 Capensis, Thunberg, Handlinger svenska, 1776, p. 65, f. 2. An 

 arboreous, unarmed shrub, 5 to 10 feet high, native of the Cape of 

 Good Hope. Leaves oblong, acute, glabrous, on very short 

 petioles, having glandular hairs on the axils of the veins beneath. 

 Flowers axillary and almost terminal, solitary, white, spotted with 



