Gardenia. pentandria monogynia. 659 



un a short, thick peduncle. Parenchyma ihick and hard.-r— Putumeu 

 round, bony, nearly half a line thick, nve-valved. — Seeds very uu- 

 nterous, immersed in a scant) pulp, attached to live panetal pla- 

 centas, corresponding to the couiuii&suies oi the valves. — Ihe iruit 

 is not eatable. — iN. W. 



Additional species by N. IV. 



12. G. densa, Wall. 



Shiubby, rigid, with numerous sub.decussate branches, ending in 

 thai us. Leaves ciovvded, obovate, sub-sessiie, smooth. Flowers su- 

 litarv, sessile, terminal. Teeth of the ca.yx subulate. 



i have only found this on the southern face of Shivapoo) in Nipal, 

 above Toka, doweling in April and May. 



A very rainous, strong and rigid, erect shrub, four or five feet 

 high. — Branches short, stout, divaricate and sub-decussate, obscure- 

 ly four-sided, with rounded coiners, covered with soft ash-coloured 

 bark, ending in a rigid, subulate spine, which is from half an inch to 

 an inch long. While young they are pubescent and covered with ap- 

 proximate pairs of stipule-like scales. — Leaves crowded and sub-ias- 

 cicled, on the young branchlels, obovate, cuspidate-acute, tapering at 

 the base, sub-sessile, from half an inch to two inches long, entire, 

 smooth, opaque, with slender, oblique nerves underneath. — Stipules 

 broad-lanceolate, pubescent, with membranous margins, ending in a 

 cuspidate acumen, recurved, withering. — Flowers small, terminal, 

 solitary, sub-sessile, smooth, of a yellowish-white colour, fragrant. — • 

 Calycine teeth subulate, spreading, about one-third of the length of 

 the tube, which is cylindric at the base, and widening considerably 

 towards the throat, half an inch long, pubescent within, and shut 

 about its middle by a circular series of silky hairs. — Limb spread- 

 ing, flat, divided into five, lanceolate, acuminate segments, nearly a9 

 long as the tube. — A?ithers five, linear, sub-sessile, semi-exsert. — 

 Ovary turbinate, smooth, supported by two opposite, lanceolate, bract- 

 lets, two-celled, with three ovula in each cell, inserted and half-itu- 

 mersedinto a tieshy septal placenta, their free end descending.— Style 



