Plate 14. 



GAEDENIA globosa. 



Cape Province, Natal. 



Eubiaceae. Tribe Gardenieae. 

 Gardenia, Linn. ; Benth. et Rook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 89. 



Gardenia globosa, Hochst. in Flora, 1842, p. 237 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4791 ; Harv. 

 Thes. Cap. p. 4, t. 5 ; Fl. Gap. vol. iii. p. 5 ; Wood, Natal Plants, vol. iv. 

 t. 376. 



This handsome plant is a shrub or sometimes becomes a 

 small tree, and is without doubt one of our finest native 

 flowering shrubs. It is common in Natal, where it flowers in 

 early spring and summer. The large fragrant bell-shaped 

 flowers are produced in great profusion and give to the plant 

 a very striking appearance. The species has been known to 

 European cultivation for over sixty years, but is usually grown 

 in the greenhouse. It is frequently seen in gardens in Durban, 

 Natal, and specimens have been grown in Queens Park, East 

 London, but the plant has not received the attention from 

 South African horticulturists which it deserves. 



Our illustration was made from specimens collected by Miss 

 K. A. Lansdell in the Stella bush near Durban, Natal. The 

 native name is " Isi-Qoba." 



Description : — A shrub or small tree. Branches with dark- 

 coloured bark, glabrous. Leaves opposite ; petioles 3-5 mm. 

 long; blade 5-15 cm. long, 2-3*5 cm. broad, lanceolate or 

 sometimes oblanceolate, obtuse or acute, gradually tapering 

 to the base, entire, with a prominent reddish mid-rib beneath, 

 glabrous ; stipules about one-third of the length of the petiole, 

 ovate, acuminate, minutely pubescent, soon deciduous. Flowers 

 terminal, axillary or clustered. Pedicels 1-2 mm. long, 

 minutely pubescent. Calyx 3-4 mm. long, minutely pubescent 

 and glandular without, silky within ; tube campanulate ; lobes 

 acute. Corolla white, usually with 5 faint pink lines within, 

 which may become darker near the base and broader on the 

 lobes, sometimes spotted ; tube 2-5 cm. long, 1-8 cm. in 

 diameter above, campanulate, suddenly constricted and 



