Gardenia.) RUBIACER. 39 
GARDENIA, L. 
Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamously dioecious. Calyx-limb 
tubular, truncate, toothed or lobed, or divided to the base into 5 or 
more lobes. Corolla funnel- or bell: or salver- cea the limb 5- 
more or less firmly fleshy or almost woody, usually ie Be 
the calyx-limb, 1-celled, with numerous seeds immersed in the 
fleshy or pulpy parietal place ntas.—Trees or shrubs, usually resm- - ~ 
yielding, with interpetiolar entire stipules more or less connate 
round the branches and often very deciduous. Flowers often showy, 
solitary, or by 2-3, rarely in cymes, terminal or spuriously axillary. 
ok vin trees or shrubs, a . Stipe oC cp die 
x Aly parts, = ion leaves, glabrous ; calyx-lobes herb- 
_—s more or les aia nes ee pedicelled, clustered by 3 or 
; abo 
ut 2 lin Ton - G. campanulata, 
iota more han pubescent, x villous or ‘tomentose. 
(@) ant flowers sessile, the hermaphrodite sterile 
3 calyx-lobes ne or leafy ; 
Bark grey ; fertile « cask “teil flowers on the same plant ; berries 
are beaked, te G, sessiliflora. 
Bark r 3 fertile i me flowers on separate plants ; berries 
slighiy af bbed . G. erythroclada, 
OO All flowers fertile, or ‘at least perfectly herinsis 
es pres truncate or minutely toothed ; 
ot green. 
+ Lea agen glabrous ; berry glabrous. 
Calyx puberulons ; Eeatedies silvery-white ; berry smooth : - G. cuneata, 
es us, 
Calyx puberulous p pews glabrou + uae ; branches - G. turgida. 
Calyx vole Content ; berry den a sely brown, velvety-to: mentose . @. Tgiece 
Stipu ules connate in a sort of sheath, rar ely 
ree. Flowers ian done large. 
x Stipnles more or less united in shai 3 corolla salver- 
apes. with a fear fa tube ; Tet ee 
Co Berri ber sessile or near Fibs a 
Leaves almost par seabrous; berries globular, in the forks of 
the branchings - G. obtusifolia, 
e%e) Rectics and flowers on short (5 lin. n-Tong) pediedl : 
Leaves = Biabrows with a tuft of hair in eat {7 if 
calyx deeply 5-cleft ; pice, A oblong, rdaod + resinifera, 
Leaves glabrous; calyx late rally cleft and m ore or less spatha- 
ceous; berry oblong, more or less distinetly ri ribbed - G. coronaria, 
xX Corolla bell- or funnel-shaped, with a ventricose ine 
