*84 PENTANDRIA M0NOGYNIA.~ Wcbera* 



large, divided by three. — Flowers small, very numerous, white, faint- 

 ly fragrant. — Calyx, corol, and stamens as in the genus. — Germ tur» 

 binate, two-cebed, with from six to nine ovulu in each;, attached 

 to the thickened centre of the partition. — Berry the size of a large 

 pea, when ripe smooth, shining blacky two celled. — Seeds from four 

 to eight in each cell. Embryo furnished with a perisperm, and cen- 

 tripetal radicle. 



The extremities of the young shoots are often found covered 

 with a white resinous matter. A substance of the same nature and 

 appearance is to be found on the germs of most of the species of 

 Gardenia known to me. 



£. W. macrophylla i R. 



Shrubby. Leaves broad-Ianceolar. Panicle terminal. Corots 

 with a long slender tube. Berries many-seeded. 



A shrubby species, found by Mr. W. Roxburgh, indigenous on 

 Prince of Wales Island. 



Young shoots somewhat villous. — Leaves opposite, short-petioled, 

 tircad-iauceolar, entire, acuminate; from six to eighteen inches long, 

 and from four to five broad. — Stipules angular, &c. as in the Rubiacea 

 ef Jussieu — Panicles terminal, very large, brachiate, villous. — Bructes 

 subulate, villous. — Flozcers large, white. — Calyx divided into five, 

 short, acute, villous segments. — Corol ; tube cylindric, long, slen- 

 der and villous; segments of the border five, obliquely linear-lanceo- 

 late shorter than the lube.— Filaments short, rising above the mouth 

 of the tube. Anthers filiform, nearly as Ion? as the segments of 

 the corol. Germ oval, two-celled, with many ovula in each, attach- 

 ed to an elevated receptacle on the centre of the partition. Style 

 lunger than the tube of the corol, villous. Stigma elavate. — Berry 

 the size of a pea, two-celled. — Seeds many in each cell, from six to 

 twelve, angular, &c. as in W. corymbosa, Gcert. carp. 5. t- 192. 



3. W. scandens, R. 



Shrubby, scandent, glossy. Leaves oblong, cymes axillary. Stig- 

 ma of two oval plates. 



