gg$ PENTANDKIA MON.OGY N.iA, Gardenia. 



that the flowers are axillary for the most part, and that in the calyx I 

 have always found a small inflected tooth-like, process at the bottom 

 of each fissure, which exists also in that of the ripe berry. The seeds 

 nestle in a firm, deep orange-coloured pulp, which is a substance 

 employed for dying in some parts of India. 



To distinguish it iiom Gardenia sulcata, Gaertner carp. hi. p. 78. 

 tab- 194. i will add the following account of the fruit oi this species. 

 — Germ turbinate, from five to six acute-angled; -at the base from 

 three- to five-celled ; above one-celled, with from three to five parietal 

 receptacles, to which the numerous ovula are attached. — Berry ob- 

 long, orange-coloured, smooth, the size of a pigeon's egg, down the 

 sides run six equidistant ribs, a continuation of the permanent, en9i- 

 Jorm segments of the calyx, one-celled. Receptacles generaly four, 

 projecting from the lining ol the cell to about one-fourth of its diame- 

 ter, when they divide into two or -more portions. Seeds numerous, 

 nidulant in orange pulp, roundish, a little compressed, rugose ; mode 

 of attachment on the ripe fruit obscure. — Perisperm conform to the 

 sted, pale. — Embryo straight, nearly as long as the perisperm. Co- 

 tyledons two, cordate. Radicle straight, pointing to, or very near to 

 the umbilicus. 



£. G. calyculata. R. 



Aiboreous. Leaves petioled, ovate, acuminate, smooth. Flowers 

 terminal, solitary, sessile, germ involucred. Calycine segments en- 

 siform. Anthers within the swelling tube of the five-cleft coral. 



Native place uncertain; some thirty years ago, it was brought from 

 Uydrabad to Lord Pigot at Madias, who planted it in his garden 

 there, where it was pointed out to me by Lady Clive in 1798. The 

 flowers are large, white, and like most of the genus, fragrant. 



3. G. costata, R* 



Arboreous, unarmed. Leaves cuneiform-oblong, smooth, ribbed. 



* This is probably the same as G. coronaria, Harnilt, (late Buchanau) in Sjnies's Emb. 

 tv Ava, 471 with a figure. — N. W, 



