PLATE CLXXXIIL 
"GABRDENTA TUBIFLOR A. 
a Tube-flowered Gardenia. 
CLASS V. ORDER I. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Caryx. Perianthium monophyllum, quinque- 
fidum, fuperum, laciniis ereétis, perfiften- 
tibus 
CoroLta monopetala, infundibulifermis; tubus 
cylindricus, calyce longior; limbus planus, 
: quinquepartitus. 
; Stamina, Filamenta nulla. Anthere quinque, 
ore tubi inferte, lineares, ftriate, longitu- 
dine dimidia limbi. 
Pistittum. Germen inferum. Stylus filifor- 
mis feu clavatus, Stigma exfertum, ova- 
tum, obtufum, bilobum, fepe fulcatum. 
Pericarrium. Bacca ficca, uni bis feu-quadri- 
ocularis, 
Serna plurima, deprefla, per feries imbricatim 
fibi impofita. 
SPECIFIC 
Gardenia inermis; foliis elipticis, undulatis, flo- 
ribus ternis; corollz laciniis tortis, lineari- 
bus, reflexis, tubo filiformi, longiffimo. 
EMPALEMENT. Cup one leaf, five-cleft, above, 
fegments upright, permanent. 
Brossom one petal, funnel-fhaped; tube cylin- 
drical, longer than the cup; border flat, 
five divifions. 
Threads none. ‘Tips five, fixed into 
the mouth of the tube, linear, firiped, half 
the length of the border, 
Pointat. Seed-bud beneath. Shaft thread- 
fhaped or club-fhaped. Summit ftanding 
out, egg-fhaped, obtufe, two-lobed, often 
urrowed. 
Serp-vesset. A dry berry, one, two, or four- 
celled, 
SgEps many, flattened, lying upon one another 
in tiers, 
CHARACTER. 
Gardenia without thorns; with eliptical, undu- 
lated leaves; flowers grow by threes; the 
fegments of the bloffom are twifted, linear, 
reflexed, the tube thread thaped, very long. 
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REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1. The Cup and Seed-bud. 
2. A Bloffom cut open, with the Chives remaining at the mouth. 
3. The Shaft and its Summit, the fummit detached and maguified. 
DIE Deere 
muft, therefore, be treated as a tender hot- 
feet before it flowers; and, from the 
Tae Tube-flowered Gardenia was introduced to Britain, in the year 1789, from Sierra Leone, and 
houfe plant. It grows, with us, to the height of about two 
beauty and fize of the leaves, the regular, oppofite manner. in 
which it forms its branches, becomes a very handfome fhrub. The flowers, which are produced in 
July, grow generally three together, at right angles, from the infertion of the leaves, in a bunch, 
which lafts about fix or eight days, having but one flower open and perfect at a time, the decaying 
ones becoming brown. It is propagated, with eafe, by cuttings, made in the month of March, and 
kept under a bell-glafs, in a pot of ftiffith loam, 
The 
agreeable charaéter, of a delicate fragrance, 
in the bark-bed of the hot-honfe, or a melon frame. 
attendant on the bloffoms of moft fpecies of this ge- 
nus, is eminently powerful in this. Our drawing was made at the Hammerfmith purfery ; where, it 
was -. raifed, from feeds received in a prefent, by Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy, from the Hon. Sierra 
ompany. 
