$&£ FENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Gardenia. 



Carol. Tube cyiindric, smooth, from one to two inches long, which 

 is more than twice the length of the calyx. Border five-parted ; 

 divisions obliquely obovate-oblong, about the length of the tube — 

 Filaments none. Anthers five, very lung, slender and acute, half 

 hid in tbe tube of the corol, and affixed by their backs to its mouth. 

 "•"Germ oblong, even, one-celled, containing numerous ovula at- 

 tached to two parietal receptacles. Style length of the tube of the 

 eorol. Stigma clavate, exert. — Berry drupaceous, oblong, size of a 

 pigeon's egg, smooth, crowned with the permanent calyx, one. celled, 

 its inner lamina of a bony hardness, turning into the cell on oppo- 

 site sides, but soon separated into two receptacles each. — Seeds 

 numerous, attached to the just mentioned receptacles. — Perisperm 

 conform to the seed. — Embryo with two cordate cotyledons, and a 

 cyiindric radicle pointing to the umbilicus. 



Obs. The total wantof pubescence, structure of the stipules, length 

 of the calyx, and sharpness of its divisions, distinguish this from G„ 

 gummifera, which it most resembles. 



6. G. arborea, R. 



Arboreous, unarmed, heaves ovate-oblong. Flowers terminal, 

 often three-fold, sub-sessile ; tube filiform ; border five-paited. Ber» 

 py drupaceous, even ; shell four- or iive-valved. 



Tarn. Karinga nigrum. 



Teling. Garga. 



Anafive of the Circar mountains. Its leaves are deciduous during 

 the cold season, and it continues naked till the hot season is pietty 

 far advanced. Flowering lime the beginning of the hot season 

 while the tree is naked of leaves. 



From the buds and wounds made in the bark there exudes a 

 very beautiful yellow resin, like that from Gardenia gummifera. 



The size, number, fragrance, mutability and beauty of the flowers 

 of this species, renders it more deserving of a place in our gardens 

 than any species I know ; I may even say, than (J.jlorida, 



The natives' eat the ripe fruit. 



