Gardeni*. pentan*itria monosynia. 640 



GARDENIA, Schreb. gen. Nt 416. 



Calyx with the divisions uncertain. Corol funnel-shaped. Germ 

 inferior, one-celled, with numerous ovula, attached to two or more 

 parietal receptacles. Berry one-celled, many-seeded. Bmbryo 

 furnished with a perisperm, directions various. 



With Jussieu, Lamarck, Gartner and others, I haveatlast separat- 

 ed the Gardenias with a one-celled seed vessel and parietal recepta- 

 cles from those which aie two celled, with the receptacles attached 

 to the partition. To those still called Gardenia belong the follow- 

 ing unarmed species, viz. G. fiorida, calt/culaia, coitata, latifolia, 

 arborea, lacida, guiumifera, telrasperma, moid ana, and the two arm- 

 ed species, turgida, and campanulata. And to the latter (Vusoqne- 

 ria) belong uliginosa, dametorum, nutans, longispina,Jragrans, fas- 

 ciculata, and hngiflora, all of which are armed. 



Sect. 1st. Unarmed. 



1. G.jftorida, Willd. spec. i. 1225.* 



Shrubby, unarmed. Leaves oval, acute at both ends. Berries 

 long, turbinate, with as many sharp ridges as there ate divisions iu 

 the calyx. 



Sung. T^TT^t : ? GMudhi/raja. 



JSeng- Gundhttraj. 



Catsjopiri, Rumph. amb. vii. 26. t. 14./. 2. 



A large, very ramous shrub, found iu gardens about Calcutta, 

 and originally from China. -j* 



Tiuinbe'rg's description of it is the best I have seen, I can only add 



• In Edwards's Bot. Register there is ati excellent figure cf this species and of the close- 

 ly allied, if not synonymous Q radicans, viz. vol. i. 73 of the latter and vol 0. 449 of die 

 former N. W. 



t This cbawning Bower doe; not thrive vrell in Nipal, at. least not in the Residencj- 

 garden, where 1 have; seen -l be- shrub. In the warmer vailev of Noakotc it is cultivated, with 

 success and blossoms is the hot ^zioa.— H. W. 



