CHAP. V. ORNAMENTAL TREES, SHRUBS, ETC. 589 



Ixora-like trusses of tubular, rnilk-wbite flowers, which would 

 be very handsome if all in the truss opened at the same time 

 instead of only a few in succession. 



Gardenia. 



1. G. florida CAPE JASMINE Gundha-raj . Native 'of China, 

 but common in the gardens of India : a most delightful shrub, 

 with neat handsome glossy foliage ; leaves obovate, about an 

 inch-and-a-half long ; bears in March and April large very 

 double, cream -white, sweetly fragrant flowers, having much the 

 appearance, though not the regularity of petals, of a small 

 Camellia ; grows to six or eight feet high, but may be kept 

 to any small and convenient size by pruning. Propagated by 

 cuttings. 



Two fine varieties of this charming shrub were introduced 

 into the Gardens of the Agri-Horticultural Society some years 

 ago by Mr. Fortune from China, and are called by his name. 



a. Distinguished by its much larger character of foliage, the 

 leaves being full three-and-a-half inches long, and by producing 

 much finer flowers. 



/3. A superb variety with very large leaves and very double 

 flowers, of immense size, fully four inches across. This blossoms 

 somewhat later in the season. Mr. Fortune says that in China 

 it grows to ten or twelve feet in circumference. The following 

 description of it has also been given : " Flowers four inches in 

 diameter, pure-white, changing to buff, not unlike a large 

 double Camellia. It is one of the very finest shrubs in culti- 

 vation, and ra,nks on a level with the double-white Camellia, 

 which it equals in the beauty of the flowers and leaves, and 

 infinitely excels in its delicious odour." * 



2. G. lucida. A large shrub, or rather small tree, with rich 

 noble foliage, the leaves being of a bright shining olive-green, 

 firm, oval, and about six or seven inches long; bears at intervals 

 during the Hot and Rain seasons large handsome solitary 

 fragrant white flowers, three or more inches across ; blossoms 

 beautifully in a dwarf condition, in which state it may easily be 

 kept by pruning. 



* ' Botanical Register for 1846,' p. 43, extracted from * Journal of the Horti- 

 cultural Society.' 



