C INCHON ACKJE. 



of powder it is a powerful emetic. An infusion of the bark of the root 

 is employed to nauseate in bowel complaints. 



GARDENIA. 



Calyx usually ribbed, with a tubular truncate limb, divided 

 into several lobes or teeth. Corolla funnel-shaped or approaching 

 salver-shaped, with a tube much larger than the calyx and a 

 contorted spreading 5-9-parted limb. Anthers 5-9, linear, ses- 

 sile in the throat. Stigma clavate, bifid or 2-toothed, with 

 thick erect lobes. Dissepiments of the ovary 2-5, incompletely 

 dividing it into cells. Berry fleshy, crowned with the calyx, 

 with a papery or bony lining, incompletely 2-5-celled. Seeds 

 immersed in fleshy parietal placentae. Trees or shrubs, armed 

 or unarmed. Flowers axillary or terminal, usually solitary, 

 white and fragrant. 



865. G. campanulata Roxb.fi. ind. i. 710. DC.prodr. iv. 383. 

 Forests of Chittagong. 



Trunk straight, but short, soon dividing and subdividing into nume- 

 rous stiff, erect, and spreading branches. Bark of the old parts 

 brownish-green, and pretty smooth ; that of the tender parts lighter 

 coloured ; height of the s'hrub in 5 years, from 5 to 10 feet. Thorns 

 single, short, strong, and sharp, generally terminating the little, la- 

 teral, opposite branchlets. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, broad- 

 lanceolate, tapering most towards the base, entire, and smooth on both 

 sides, from 2 to 5 inches long, and from 1 to 2 broad. Stipules tri- 

 angular, acute. Flowers small, of a pale yellowish-white, short- 

 peduncled, crowded on the extremities of short, rigid, lateral, spinous 

 branchlets. Calyx cylindrical, 5-toothed. Corolla with a 5-sided, 

 campanulate tube, and a border of 5 obliquely ovate segments. An- 

 thers 5, sessile in the bell of the corolla. Ovary 1 -celled, containing 

 numerous ovules attached to generally 5 parietal receptacles. Style 

 short. Stigma somewhat 5-grooved, and situated deep in the tube. 

 Berry round-ovate, the size of a golden pippin, smooth, depressed, and 

 slightly 5-furrowed at the apex and base; 1 -celled; the exterior tunic 

 thick, fleshy, yellowish, with slender, hard, longitudinal fibres inter- 

 spersed, the inner tunic thin and firm, but not bony, the edges of which 

 turn inwards in 5 lines, forming 5 parietal placentae. Seeds minute, 

 nidulant in a little yellow pulp. The fruit is employed by the natives 

 of India as a cathartic and anthelmintic. Roxb. 



Tribe III. HEDYOTIDE.E. 



Fruit capsular, 2-celled, with a loculicidal dehiscence, or mem. 

 branous and indehiscent ; cells many-seeded. Seeds not winged. 

 Albumen fieshy. Shrubs or herbaceous plants. Leaves opposite. 

 Stipules interpetiolar. 



CONDAMINEA. 



Calyx campanulate, 5-crenate or 5-toothed ; limb deciduous. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped, with a somewhat curved tube, which is a 



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