Posoqnerla. pentandria monogyma. 5(53 



Seeds numerous, nidulant. Embryo furnished with a perisperm, 

 direction various. 



1. P. utiginosa, R. 



Arboreous armed, branches straight, four-sided; branchlets de« 

 cussate, horizontal, bearing the thorns and flowers at their extreuii* 

 ties. Berry oval, drupaceous, even. 



Gardenia uliginosa, Willd. spec, i, 1228. 



Beng. Peeralo. 



Tarn. Wagatta. 



Telinga. Nella-kakisha. 



A rigid, ramous, small tree, armed with numerous, strong thorns. 

 A native of various parts of India, delighting in moist places, such 

 as the banks of rivers, low lands, &c. Flowering time the beginning 

 of the hot season, and in some measure all the year. The seeds 

 ripen in the cool season. 



Trunk short, covered with a dark, rust coloured, scabrous bark. 

 Branches, some stiffly erect, very rigid, four-cornered, thickset with 

 short, round, diverging, decussated branchlets; others spreading.— 

 Thorns one, two, three, or four, at the extremities of the short, round 

 branchlets just mentioned — Leaves opposite, on the young shoots, 

 fascicled at the extremities of the branchlets, short-petioled, oblong, 

 smooth, shining, entire, from two to three inches long, by one and 



half broad.— Stipules within the leaves as in the rest of the wenus 



Flowers one, two, or three upon their proper short peduncles, at the 

 extremities of the branchlets, large, white and fragrant.— Calux 

 tubular, obtusely five-toothed, permanent. — Corol, mouth of the tube 

 shut up with much white hair. Border flat, from five- to ei^ht- 

 cleft; divisions orbicular.— Nectary a fleshy, angular ring surround- 

 ing the base of the style.— Germ inferior, two-ceiled, each contain- ' 

 ing numerous ovula, attached to a crescent-shaped receptacle in 

 each cell, vertically united to the midd'e of the partition.— Berry* 

 two-celled, size and shape of a pullet's egg, bark ash-coloured, or 



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