PLATE 376, 
GARDENIA GLoposa, Hoonst. (FI. Cap. Vol. IIL, p. 5.) 
Natural Order, Rupiacea. 
A shrub or small tree bearing large white bell-shaped flowers. Twigs terete, 
bark dark-coloured Leaves opposite, stipulate, petiolate, lanceolate to almost 
ob-lanceolate, quite glabrous, 2 to 6 inches long, 1 to 14 inch wide, quite entire, 
obtuse or acute at apex, tapering gradually to the petiole, midrib prominent 
‘beneath, reddish, secondary veins conspicuous but not prominent, 6 to 9 on each 
side; petiole 8 to 5 lines long. Stipules cuspidate from a broad thickened base, 
about one-third the length of the petiole, minutely pubescent, soon deciduous. 
Flowers terminal on twigs and branches, or axillary, solitary or aggregated ; pedi- 
cels 1 to 2 lines long, minutely pubescent. Calyx tubular, limb 5-lobed, lobes 
acute, erect, tube slightly swollen, the whole calyx including ovary, 3 to 4 lines 
long, minutely pubescent externally, silky internally and with a few scattered 
yellow, lanceolate glands. Corolla campanulate, the tube suddenly becoming much 
swollen from mouth of calyx tube, limb 4-5-lobed, lobes ovate, acute, half as long 
as the tube, the whole corolla 14 inch long, minutely pubescent externally, the 
tube densely tomentose internally. Stamens 5, on tube of corolla, alternate with 
its lobes, subsessile; anthers linear, 2-celled, attached by centre, included. Style 
long ; stigma sub-clavate, reaching to throat of corolla, but not exserted, 2-fid at 
apex. Ovary inferior, 1-celled, many ovuled. Berry fleshy, crowned by the calyx 
lobes, many seeded, seeds minute, immersed in the fleshy parietal placentas. 
Habitat: Nata: Coast and Midlands, to 2000 feet alt; rare in uplands. 
Krauss, 467; Gueinzius, 180, 546; Gerrard & McKen, 714; Sanderson, 700; 
Zululand, 6000 feet alt, Davis, 128; Inanda, 2000 feet alt, Wood, 592. 
A very handsome flowering shrub or small tree, well known in cultivation. 
In the early spring and summer it bears its fragrant flowers in great abundance ; 
the corollas are white, usually with 5 more or less faint pink lines in the interior 
of the corolla, sometimes the lines are broken up into dots, sometimes deeper ‘in 
colour at base of the tube, and sometimes broader and more conspicuous on the 
lobes tor nearly half their length; in the white variety the stigmas are pure white, 
while in the variety with pink lines and dots the margins of the stigmas are deep 
dull pink; in both forms the interior of the corolla tube is pale yellow. The 
native name is isi-Qoba. 
Fig. 1, calyx; 2, same opened showing glands; 3, corolla opened; 4, a 
stamen ; 5, style and stigma; eacept fig. 3 all enlarged. 
