PLATE 376. 



GARDENIA GLOBOSA, HOOHST. (PI. Cap. Vol. III., p. 5.) 

 Natural Order, RUBIACE.E. 



A shrub or small tree bearing large white bell-shaped flowers. Twigs terete, 

 bark dark-coloured Leaves opposite, stipulate, petiolate, lanceolate to almost 

 ob-lanceolate, quite glabrous, 2 to 6 inches long, 1 to 1^ inch wide, quite entire, 

 obtuse or acute at apex, tapering gradually to the petiole, midrib prominent 

 beneath, reddish, secondary veins conspicuous but not prominent, 6 to 9 on each 

 side ; petiole 3 to 5 lines long. Stipules cuspidate from a broad thickened base, 

 about one-third the length of the petiole, minutely pubescent, soon deciduous. 

 Flowers terminal on twigs and branches, or axillary, solitary or aggregated ; pedi- 

 cels 1 to 2 lines long, minutely pubescent. Calyx tubular, limb 5-lobed, lobes 

 acute, erect, tube slightly swollen, the whole calyx including ovary, 3 to 4 lines 

 long, minutely pubescent externally, silky internally and with a few scattered 

 yellow, lanceolate glands. Corolla campanulate, the tube suddenly becoming much 

 swollen from mouth of calyx tube, limb 4-5-lobed, lobes ovate, acute, half as long 

 as the tube, the whole corolla 1^ inch long, minutely pubescent externally, the 

 tube densely tomentose internally. Stamens 5, on tube of corolla, alternate with 

 its lobes, subsessile ; anthers linear, 2-celled, attached by centre, included. Style 

 long ; stigma sub-clavate, reaching to throat of corolla, but not exserted, 2-fid at 

 apex. Ovary inferior, 1-celled, many ovuled. Berry fleshy, crowned by the calyx 

 lobes, many seeded, seeds minute, immersed in the fleshy parietal placentas. 



Habitat.- NATAL: Coast and Midlands, to 2000 feet alt; rare in uplands. 

 Krauss, 467; Gueinzius, 130, 546; Gerrard fy McKen, 714; Sanderson, 700; 

 Zululand, 6000 feet alt, Davis, 128 ; Inanda, 2000 feet alt, Wood, 592. 



A very handsome flowering shrub or small tree, well known in cultivation. 

 In the early spring and summer it bears its fragrant flowers in great abundance ; 

 the corollas are white, usually with 5 more or less faint pink lines in the interior 

 of the corolla, sometimes the lines are broken up into dots, sometimes deeper in 

 colour at base of the tube, and sometimes broader and more conspicuous on the 

 lobes tor nearly half their length ; in the white variety the stigmas are pure white, 

 while in the variety with pink lines and dots the margins of the stigmas are deep 

 dull pink ; in both forms the interior of the corolla tube is pale yellow. The 

 native name is isi-Qoba. 



Fig. 1, calyx; 2, same opened showing glands; 3, corolla opened; 4, a 

 stamen ; 5, style and stigma ; except fig. 3 all enlarged. 



