Gardenia.) — RUBIACEAE. 171 
small, its tube 2—3, dilating above. Anthers enclosed, Style — 
eery large, about 4” in diam., with a large disk. Seeds about 12 on 
pHemnte 1/2 in diam. 
! (Kn.) leaves ovate; Oahu, Mt. Kaala’ leaves ae Color and texture 
of the leaves are pity sos thos se of G. coria acea. — eae sponds tolerably well with 
G. Sandwicensis, var from Hanalei, Kau ec which were found corollas 
with a tube of 3” and Mma no a tube of 6" “in ed 
}. GARDENIA, L. 
Calyx-limb tubular and truncate, toothed or lobed, or divided to the 
base into 4—5 or more lobes, Corolla-tube cylindrical, with 5 or more 
lobes contorted in the bud. Anthers subsessile, usually exserted. Style 
with 2 thick erect lobes, or nearly entire. Ovary 1-celled, incompletely 
divided by 2 to 5 parietal orpiiutiie boating Fruit succulent or dry, 
indehiscent, usually crowned by the calycine limb. Seeds numerous, 
immersed in the fleshy placentas in several rows. — Shrubs or trees. 
Stipules solitary on each side, o - connate add Seg Flowers 
usually large and solitary, ical or axillary, white or yellow. 
inhabiting the tropical regions of Africa, Asia and the Pacific Ocean, — New 
i come Viti, i iter A and pecs Hac ‘sands 
ivated spee Tahite , G. florida, G. lucida, G. radicans. 
branes not Aer denkoen ovate ; mee -lobes linear-oblong, 
ere: 1. G. Brighamniti. 
iccched glutinose ; | Teaves obovate; ‘ealyx- lobes falciform, dilated, 
spreading and vertical 2. G. Remyi. 
1G; ieienieaat Man ation m. no. 179, — An unarmed shrub, 6—12 ft. 
high, with strictly dichotomous Senay foliose branches, scarcely glu- 
tinous at the ends. Leaves on short petioles of 2, ovate, 1'/2—4' 
1— 21/2‘, shortly acuminate, chartaceous, with prominent straight 
nerves, shining above, papillose and in the young state puberulous 
underneath. Stipules imate or truncate, connate inside the petioles 
into a complete sheath of 2—3” in height. Flowers single, terminal, sub- 
Sessile. Calyx-tube quadrangular, shortly genes — the ovary, 
5” long, 4-lobed, the linear-oblong lobes erect, 5—6”. Corolla white, 
salver-shaped , 6- ped: the ampliate tube 7—9”, ow aoe lobes 6“, 
inthers subsessile, linear, 5’ long, their apices exserted. Style as long 
as the tube, the 2 clavate branches nearly hajf its length. Fruit globose, 
with 4 faint lines, about 1‘ in diameter, coriaceous, indehiscent, tipp 
with the contracted limb of the calyx, 1-celled, with 4 (or 3 or oe parietal 
Placentas projecting about 2“ from the pergameneous endocarp. Seeds 
many in a yellowish pulp, horizontal, flattened, obtusely 3- or more 
angled, about 2“ in diameter, with a coriaceous black testa and fleshy 
albumen. Embryo near the hilum, about ! eat . Sp: the flat cotyledons 
ovate or rou nded, as long as the corees ri 
Lanai! Molokai! Maunaloa; Oahu! acting ee on dry fore hills. Nat. 
