Gardenia. PENTAN'DRIA MONOGYNIA. 557 



nal and lateral fascicles. Calyx five-toothed. Corol carapanulate 5 

 border five-cleft. Berry round. 



A native of the forests of Chittagor.g. Flowering time the month 

 o'i March ; seed ripe in November. 



Trunk straight, but short, soon dividing and subdividing into nu- 

 merous, stiff, erect, and spreading branches. Haricot the old part3 

 brownish green, and pretty smooth ; that 01" the tender parts lifter 

 coloured; height of the shrub in five years, from five to ten feet. 

 — Thorns single, short, strong, and sharp, they generally terminate 

 the little, lateral, opposite branchlets. — Leaves opposite, short-peii- 

 oled, broad-lanceolate, tapering most towatd the base, entiie, and 

 smooth on both sides, from two to five inches long, and from one to two 

 broad. — Stipules triangular, acute. — Flozcers small, of a pale yel.ow- 

 ish white, shoi t-peduncled, crowded on the extremities of short, ri- 

 gid, lateral, spinous branchlets. — Calyx- cylindric, five-tooihed. — Co~ 

 ro£ with a five-sided, campanulate tube, and a border of rive oblique^ 

 ly-ovate segments.— Anthers five, sessile in the bell of the corol.- 

 Germ inferior, one-celled, containing numerous ovula attached to 

 generally five, parietal receptacles. Style short. Stigma somewhat 

 five-grooved, and situated deep in the tube. — Berry round-ovate, the 

 size of a golden pippin, smooth, depressed, and slightly five-furrow- 

 ed at the apex and base ; one-celled; the exterior tunic thick, fleshy, 

 yellowish, with slender, hard, longitudinal fibres interspersed, the in- 

 ner tunic thin and firm, but not bony, the edges of which turn in rive 

 portions, forming five parietal receptacles. — Seeds minute, niduient 

 in a little yellow pulp.— Perisperm conform to the seed, pale. — 

 Embryo straight. Cotyledons round. Radicle cylindric, pointing 

 to the umbilicus. 



Obs- The fruit is used by the natives as a cathartic and anlheh 

 minlicj and also to wash out stains in silk. 



11. G turgida, R. 



Arboreous, with swelled meallv bark, branches brachiate. Thorns 

 opposite and terminal. Leaves obovate, smooth. Tlozcas la- 



