PLATE CLXXXIII. 



GARDENIA TUBIFLORA. 



Tiihe-Jiowercd Gardenia. 



CLASS V. ORDER L 

 FENTANBRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. 



GENERIC C 



Calyx. Peiianthlum monophyllum, quinque- 

 fidum, fuperurnj laciniis ereftis, perfiflen- 

 tibus. 



Corolla monopetala, infundibuliformis; tubus 

 cylindricus, calyce longior; limbus planus, 

 quinquepartitus. 



Stamina. Filamenta nulla. Antherae quinque, 

 ore tubi infertae, lineares, ftriata;, longitu- 

 dine dimidia limbi. 



PiSTiLLUM. Germen inferam. Stylus filifor- 

 mis feu clavatus. Stigma exfertum, ova- 

 turn, obtufura, bilobum, fa;pe fulcitum. 



Pericakpium. Bacca ficca, uni bis feu-quadri- 

 locularis. 



Semi N A plurima, deprefla, per leries imbricatim 

 fibi impofita. 



SPECIFIC 

 Gardenia inermis; foliis elipticis, undulatis, flo- 

 ribus ternis; corolla: laciniis tortis, lineari- 

 bus, reflexia, tubo tiliformi, longillimo. 



HARACTKR. 



Empalement. Cup one leaf, five-cleft, al)ove, 

 fegmcnts upright, permanent. 



Blossom one petal, funnel-lhaped; tube cylin- 

 drical, longer than the cup; border flat, 

 five divifions. 



Chives. Threads none. Tips five, fixed into 

 the mouth of the tube, linear, firipcd, half 

 the length of the border. 



Pointal. Seed-bud beneath. Shaft thread- 

 fliaped or club-fliaped. Summit ftanding 

 out, egg-lhajied, obtufe, two-lobed, often 

 furrowed. 



Seed-vessel. A dry berry, one, two, or four- 

 celled. 



Seeds 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 bloflbm are twiftcd, linear, 

 reflexed, the tube thread lliaped, very long. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Cup and Seed- bud. 



2. A BlolVom cut open, with the Chives remainina; at the mouth. 



3. The Shaft and its Summit, the fummit detached and niaguified. 



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The Tube-flowered Gardenia was introduced to Britain, in the j'ear 1 789, from Sierra Leone, and 

 mufl^, therefore, be treated as a tender hot-houfe plant. It grows, with us, to the lieight of about two 

 feet before it flowers; and, from the beauty and fize of the leaves, the regular, oppofite manner in 

 which it forms its branches, becomes a very handfome flirub. The flowers, which are produced in 

 July, grow generally three togetlier, at right angles, from tlie infertion of the leaves, in a bunch, 

 which lafts about fix or eight days, having but one flower open and perfeft at a time, the decaying 

 ones becoiTiing brown. It is propagated, with eafe, by cuttings, made in the month of March, and 

 kept under a bell-glafs, in a pot of llitfifli loam, in the bark-bed of the hot-houfe, or a melon frame. 

 The agreeable charaiter, of a delicate fragrance, attendant on the blofloms of moll fpecies of this ge- 

 nus, is eminently powerful in this. Our drawing was made at the Hammerfmith nurferj'; where, it 

 was firft raifed, from feeds received in a prefent, by Mellrs. Lee and Kennedy, from the Hon. Sierra 

 Leone Company. 



