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ing coffee, quinine, ipecac, etc. Bouvardias are among the 

 useful bright-flowered species grown under glass. 



CEPHALANTHUS. Button Bush. 



Deciduous shrubs with moderately slender roundish twigs; 

 rather 4-sided homogeneous pale brown pith; low half-round 

 small leaf-scars with a single crescent-shaped bundle-trace, 

 opposite or in whorls of 3 with a narrow connecting stipular 

 line; small often superposed buds at first nearly concealed in 

 the bark, the terminal wanting; simple rather large and long- 

 stalked entire leaves; small funnel-shaped perfect gamopeta- 

 lous white flowers in dense long-stalked terminal and axillary 

 heads; and similar aggregates of inversely pyramidal small 

 hard fruits. 



Leaves broad, elliptical-ovate. C. occidentalis. 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate. C. occidentalis angustifolia. 



GARDENIA. Cape Jessamine. 



Evergreen shrubs with pale or brownish wood with minute 

 diffused ducts and very fine medullary rays; moderate finally 

 square harsh-pubescent twigs; somewhat angled continuous 

 pith; opposite slightly raised half-round leaf-scars, connected 

 by transverse stipule-scars; sessile stipule-sheathed pointed 

 buds; moderate cuneate-obovate entire leaves very glossy 

 above; and large solitary perfect funnel-shaped gamopetalous 

 fragrant white flowers, with 1-celled ovary, the calyx not 

 tubular, ribbed and with long teeth in the following. 

 Flowers single. G. jasminoides. 



Flowers double. G. jasminoides plena. 



MITCHELL A. Partridge Berry. 



Small evergreen nearly herbaceous trailing plants with 

 small opposite petioled leaves with intervening connate sti- 

 pules; tubular funnel-shaped or salver-shaped rather small 

 perfect flowers paired at end of slender axillary stalks; and 

 rather small red twinned inferior berries with a few large 

 seeds. 

 Leaves round-ovate, very obtuse, glabrous. M. repens. 



