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Stic. CiiAR. Shrub: leaves oblorig, glabrous: stipules cotdate 
at the base; cuspidate at the apex: segments of the calyx subulate; 
glabrous, ne of them in some of the axillary flowers of each cofymb 
produced into an ovate-lanceolate leaf: style about half the length 
of the tube of the corolla: fruit oval: flowérs middle-sized, brights 
Orange. 
Malabar, Silket. Flowering from August to November. 
(2) M. Fkonbosa. (Linn. ) 
_ Ident. W. & A. prod: I. p. 893.—=Roxb. fl. Ind. I. p: 557. 
Dec. prod. IV. p. 370. 
Syn. Mz, flavescens, Ham: in Linn. Soc. Trans. XIV. p. 203. ° 
Engrav. Wight’s Ul. TI. t. 124.—Rheede Mal. I. t. 17.= 
Burm. Zeyl. t. 76.=-Bot. Reg. VI: t. 517. 
Spec. Citar. Erect shtub: leaves oval, acuminated, from vil< 
lous or hirsute to nearly glabrous: branéhes and corymbs when 
young pubegeent or tomentose: calyx-segments subulate, much 
longer than the ovary, hirsute, one of them in some of the axillary 
flowers of the corymb produced into a large pubescent or villous 
leaf: cofolla externally hirsute: style the léngth of the tube: fruit 
at first hairy, afterwards glabfoiis, obovold: floweis middle-sized, 
gold-colonred. 
- Common in the Peninsula, Khisia mountains. Flowering rear- 
ly all the year. 
(3) M; romentosa. ( Wight.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 394. 
Sree. Cuar. Shrub: branches somewhat villous: leaves oval, 
&cuminated, hirsutely villous on both sides : corymbs villous: calyx- 
segments subulate, somewhat unequal, as long or twiée as. long as 
the ovary, none of them expanding into a leaf: corolla hirsute on 
the outside: fruit cbovoid: flowers white. 
Gingie Hillsy - 
GENUS V: GARDENIA. 
Pentandria Monogynia: Sex: Syst? 
Deriv, Nemed in honor of Dr. Garden; of Charleston; U; §.; 4 
correspondent of Linnzus. 
Gen. Car. Trees or shrubs, unarmed or thortiy: leaves oppo~ 
site or sometimes verticillate ? flowers axillary or terminal, usually 
solitary, white, often becoming yellowish and generally fragrant: 
calyx-tube ovate, even of ribbed: limb tubular, truncated, ot tooth 
ed or divided: eorolla infundibuliform or hypocrateriforin ; tube 
much longer than the calyx; limb spfeading, 5-9-partite, twisted 
in gestivation: anthers 5-9, linear, nearly sessile in the throat of the 
