NAT. ORDER. 
Buhiacea. 
GAEDENIA FLORIDA. CAPE JASMINE. 
CJ,ass V. Pentandria. Order I. Monogynia. 
Qen. Char. Calyx, an ovate ribbed tube. Corolla, funnel-shaped. 
Anthers, from five to nine, linear. Stigma, clavate. Ovarium,, 
one-celled, half divided. Berry, fleshy, crowned Seeds, minute. 
Flowers, axillary, terminal, solitary, pale yellow. 
Spe. Char. Leaves, elliptic, acute at both ends. Flowers, solitary, 
five to nine parted. Berry, five to six angled, five to six celled 
at the base, and one-celled at the apex, orange colored, size of a 
pigeon's egg. 
This is a shruh from two to six feet high, with numerous stout, 
woody branches, which bear crowded foliage towards their extremi- 
ties ; leaves oval or obovate, acute, subcoriaceous, opposite, often ap- 
pearing verticillate ; bracteas acute, membranaceous, deciduous ; 
Jlowers large, solitary, very fragrant ; calyx segments erect, narrow, al- 
most linear, much shorter than the tube of the corolla ; corolla, pale 
yellow, somewhat leathery, soon turning quite yellow, hypocrateri- 
form ; tube long, straight ; limb spreading, of six oblong, wavy, obtuse 
segments ; anthers nearly sessile, linear, situated at the mouth of the 
corolla ; germen inferior, scarcely ribbed ; style as long as the tube of 
the corolla ; stigma thick, bifid, exerted ; the berry is orange colored, 
about the size of a pigeon's egg, and the pulp is used for dyeing yel- 
low in China and Japan. It flowers in July and August. 
Gardenia radicans. Rooting Gardenia, or Cape Jasmine. This 
is a shrubby plant, from one to two feet high, unarmed : stems radi- 
VoL. IV.— 164. 
