Gaedenia.J EUBIACEM, 421 



14. GARDENIA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 115. 



Shrubs or trees, armed or not. Leaves opposite, rarely 3-nately 

 whorled ; stipules intrapetiolar, often connate. Flowers often very 

 large, terminal or axillary, solitary fascicled or rarely cymose, often 

 dimorphic and polygamous. Calyx-tube various ; limb tubular or 

 dilated, variously cleft or lobed. Corolla very various ; lobes 5-12, 

 twisted in bud. Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes ; anthers 

 sessile or sub-sessile, linear, included, inserted in the tube. Ovary 

 1-celled; style stout, stigma clavate fusiform or 2 -cleft ; ovules 

 numerous, 2-seriate on the 2-6 parietal placentas. Fruit often 

 large, ovoid ellipsoid or globose, coriaceous or fleshy ; endocarp 

 woody or bony, polished within, sometimes splitting along the placental 

 sutures. Seeds very many, inbedded in the placenta, compressed ; 

 testa thin ; embryo small, in horny albumen. — Species about 60, 

 trop. and sub-tropical. 

 Unarmed. 



A shrub with short ovate acute caMobea . 1. G. gummifera. 



A small tree with long recurved cal-lobes . 2. G. latifolia. 



A small spinous shrub with dimorphic flowers 3. G. turgida. 



1. G. gummifera, Linn. f. Suppl. 164} Roseh. Fl. Ind. i, 709; W. ^ 

 A, Prod. 395 ; Brand. For. Fl. 270; F. B. I. iii, 116; Watt E. D. ; 

 Gamble Man. Ind. Timh. 415 ; CooTce Fl. Bomb, i, 605.— V em. Dihamali 

 (the gum-resin) . 



A small unarmed nearly glabrous shrub with resinous buds. Leaves 

 sessile or sub-sessile, 1^2^ in. long, obovate, acute or obtuse, shining,, 

 base obtuse acute or cordate, sometimes puberulous beneath ; stipules 

 connate, truncate or mucronate. Flowers 1-3 together, sub-sessile. 

 Calyx pubescent ; lobes short, ovate, acute. Corolla white turning to 

 yellow, its tube 1-2 in., glabrous or pubescent; limb ]-3 in. across; 

 ' lobes 5, oblong, obtuse. Fruit 1-1| in. long, ellipsoid or oblongs 

 smooth ; pericarp thin ; placentas 4-5. 



Bundelkhand (Mrs. Bell). Flowers during March and April. Disteib. 

 Southwards from Chota Nagpur and Bombay. The gum obtained 

 from this plant is collected and sold together with a similar substance 

 yielded by G. lucida. The fruit is eaten. 



2. G. latifolia. Ait. Hort. Few. (ed. I), i, 294; W. & A. Trod. 895 ; 

 Brand. For. Fl. 271; F. B. I. iii, 116; Watt F. D. ; CooTce Fl. Bomb, 

 i, 602; Gamble Man. Ind, Timh. 4i5.— Vern. PdpW, pdpra, pdjphar 

 (Bundelkhand). 



A small unarmed tree with stout branches ; branchlets resinous. 

 Leaves opposite or in whorls of three, subsessile, 4-8 in. long, broadly 

 elliptic or orbicular, rounded at the apex or shortly and bluntly 



