5o2 PENTANDKIA MONOGTNiAi Gardenia, 



tnent hard and two-valved. — Perisperm soft.— Embryo straight, 

 nearly as long as the perisperm. Cotyledons ovate- Radicle as long 

 as the cotyledons, and pointing directly to the umbi.icus which is 

 generally the most pointed end of the -seed. 



4. G. latifolia, Willd. spec. i. 1226. 



Arboreous, unarmed. Leases opposite, or tern, sub-sessile, ovate. 

 Flowers terminal, three-fold, sessile, from eight- to nine-cleft. Berry 

 drupaceous, round, even, one-ceiled, five-vaived. 



Hind. Papara. 



Gardenia enneandra, Konigs Mss. 

 ■ Telinga. Caringua. 



Is a native of barren rocky hills both in the Circars, and Carna- 

 tic, like the other species it flowers about the beginning of the hot 

 season, and the seeds take nearly one year to ripen. 



By slow growth it becomes' a small tree, with sub-erect blanches, 

 covered with smooth, ash-coloured bark. Leaves either opposite, 

 or three-fold, in a good soil always three-fold, nearly sessile, in- 

 serted into the stipulary ring, obovate, entire, of a deep shininw 

 green on the upper side, paler on the lower; veins many and large, 

 running parallel; in their axils are hollow glands, with hairy margins; 

 from six to twelve inches long. — Stipules annular within the leaves, 

 splitting irregularly when old. — Flowers one, two, three, or four, 

 at the extremities of the branchlets, very large, very fragrant; when 

 they first open in the morning white, gradually growing yellow 

 before night. — Peduncles short, one-flowered. — Calyx small, irregu- 

 larly divided. — Co/ol. Tube long, cylindric, smooth. Border lar^e, 

 spreading, from seven- to eleven-cleft, divisions obliquely oblong, 

 the length of the tube. — Filaments none. Anthers corresponding 

 ■with the number of segments in the border of the corol, linear, point, 

 ed at both ends, half immersed in the tube, the other half above its 

 mouth. — Germ oblong, one-celled, containing numerous ovuia, at- 

 tached to five parietal receptacles — Berry the size of a pullet's egg, 

 nearly round, crowned with a small part only of the tube of the 



