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narrow, in fours. Flowers with long tubes, reddish without, yellowish 
within ; cymes terminal; May to ealy s: 
A. MONTANA (mountain). Stems weak, smooth, 6 to 8 inches high. 
Leaves narrow, four or six in a whorl; upper ones opposite. Flowers 
pink ; June and July. - 
A. ODORATA (fragrant). Stems four-angled, erect, 6 to 12 inches 
high. Leaves lance-shaped, smooth, with rough-toothed edges, eight in 
a whorl. Flowers small, pure white ; May and June. 
A. ORIENTALIS (Eastern). Stems branched, 12 inches high. Leaves 
lance-shaped, bristly, eight in a whorl. Flowers blue, terminal ; June 
and July. Annual. 
Asperulas will succeed in any ordinary garden soils, 
and are suitable as edgings to borders, or to form tufts 
for the rock-garden. A shady position is best for thein, and they do 
well under trees. They are propagated by division of the creeping 
rhizomes. 
The neighbouring genus Phuopsis contains a single species —P. 
stylosa (large-styled),—which is cultivated like the Asperulas. It has 
stems about 1 foot high, with lance-shaped leaves, six or eight in a 
whorl ; pink or purple corollas with five lobes and a style almost as 
long again as the tube; July. It is a native of the Caucasus, whence it 
was introduced 1836. 
Description of A, Asperula orientalis with leaves and flowers. 
Flate 123. Fig. 1 is a detached flower enlarged ; 2, a section through 
the same ; 3, a seed, natural size and magnified ; 4, a seedling. 
B, Phuopsis stylosa. Fig. 5, an unopened flower ; 6, an open one; 
7, section. 
Culture. 
GARDENIAS 
Natural Order Rustacex, Genus Gardenia 
GARDENIA (named in honour of Dr. Alexander Garden of Charleston 
Carolina, a correspondent of Linneus’). A genus including about sixty 
species of stove and greenhouse evergreen shrubs, with (usually) opposite 
leaves and tubular (funnel-shaped or salver-shaped) white flowers. The 
corolla-limb is divided into from five to nine segments, the stamens 
agreeing in number with them. They are natives of Tropical Asia and 
South Africa. 
GARDENIA FLORIDA (flowery). Cape Jessamine. Stem 
ee rab be: erect, 2 to 6 feet high. Leaves elliptic. Flowers 
