554 ENfMEIlATlON OF TLANT^ 



roiis, nestling in a softish pulp, contained in a hard 

 iive or six valved shell, and this enveloped in a 

 spongy fleshy pulp, half an inch thick, of a green- 

 ish white within, externally of a brownish ash, and 

 smooth. 



Gardenia 3. — A plant of humble growth, shrubby, 

 none seen exceeding two feet in height, growing 

 among fragments of rocks on the elevated ridge 

 near Chichooa. Leaves terminating the branches, 

 without order, rather crowded, petiolcd, mostly 

 obovate, entire, smooth, one inch by half an inch, 

 petiole very short. Flowers axillary, single, on 

 solitary short peduncles, of a greenish white colour, 

 and very sweet to the smell. Perianth above, one 

 leaved, half five cleft, divisions awled, erect, per- ^ 

 manent. Corel, funnel form, tube long, widening 

 upwards, partly closed about the middle by a ring 

 of silky down. Border five-parted, divisions ovate, 

 equal. Filaments short, within the tube. An- 

 thers oblong, partly within the tube. Germ glo- 

 bular. Style length of the tube. Stigma two 

 lobed, lobes, ovate, flattened, appressed. Pericarp, 

 a berry crowned with the calyx, about the size of 

 a connnon pea, one celled, four seeded. 



Ncriiim retkulata. 1. — A strong climber, about the 

 trees near Amaour. 



Ncriiim 2.' — With leaves opposite, petloled, ovate, 

 pointed entire, downy ; petioles very short, gib- 

 I)ous : follicles two, long, a little compressed, 

 breadth of the forefinger. The flowers terminate 

 the branches, on four or five short divided pedun- 

 cles, about the size of a primrose, of a greenish 

 white, very sweet scented. It is found in plenty 

 in the forests at the foot of the ghaut. JJoth flow- 

 er and fruit now on the tree. The nectary in this 

 species differs from the generic description ; it is 

 liere composed of t\velve yellow tridentated scales, 

 about half the length of the stamens, neither are 

 the an tilers terminated by threads, but rigid at the 

 apices. I have called it a Ncrium in deference to 



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