Gardenia. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 531 



Calyx five-angled. Flcwers hypocrateriform. Berry drupaceous, 

 oval, five-ribbed, one-celled, shell two-valved. 



A native of the mountainous parts of India. From those of Chit- 

 tagon«, it has been introduced into the botanic garden at Calcutta; 

 where, in ten or twelve years it has arrived to the size of a small elegant 

 tree* Ii blossoms in April, and the seeds lake nearly one year to riptn. 



Trunk straight, in twelve years old trees eighteen inches circum- 

 ference. — The branches expand but little, the bark of the ligneous 

 parts is smooth and ash-coloured, that of the young shoots round, and 

 somewhat harsh with short, adpressed hairs; whole height from ten tr» 

 twenty feet. — Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oblong, and cuneiform- 

 oblong, smooth, when young resinous, entire, pointed; veins numer- 

 ous, large, and parallel; length from six to twelve inches, and the 

 breadth from three to five. — Stipules interfoliaceous, supporting the 

 leaves. — Flowers terminal, or nearly so, very large, the tube being 

 above three inches long, and the border above four in diameter ; 

 when they first expand at day break, they are white, but in the course 

 of the day change to a pretty deep yellow, powerfully fragrant. — Ca- 

 lyx cylindric; mouth irregularly divided into five lobes; outside resi- 

 nous, and strongly marked with five, very prominent angles, caducous. 

 (In my lucida, which this resembles most, it is permanent, smooth on 

 the outside, and deeply divided into five uniform segments.) — Corol. 

 dFube cylindric ; border of five obliquely ovate segments.' — Anthers 

 five, sessile, completely within the mouth of the tube, of two filiform 

 lobes. — Germ clavate, five-angled, and one-celled with numerous 

 ovula attached to two opposite receptacles, rising from the sides of 

 the cell, as in Gaertner's figure of Chironia baccifera, carp. 2. £.114. 

 Style the length of the tube. Stigma rather above the tube, large, and 

 consisting of two variously grooved lobes. — Berry drupaceous, oblong, 

 ventricose, smooth, yellow; five strong vertical ribs run its whole 

 length. — Pulp yellow, soft and rather foetid, one-celled. Shell thick, 

 hard, and two-valved. — Seeds numerous, small, shape very irregular, 

 but always much flattened, nidulaut in dark-co'oured, soft pulp. It is 

 only in the germ that their iusert'on can be clearly traced. Inteau- 



