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NAT. ORDER. RUBIACE^. 
it more deserving of a place in the garden than any other species. — 
The natives eat the fruit when ripe. It is a native of the East Indies 
among the Circars. 
Gardenia latifoUa. Broad leaved Gardenia. This is a shrub 
from ten to twelve feet high, arboreous, unarmed ; leaves almost ses- 
sile, ovate or obovate ; in the axils of the veins beneath are hollow 
glands with hairy margins ; flowers terminal, from one to four together, 
almost sessile, salver-shaped from seven to eleven parted ; Umb of the 
calyx short, subdentate ; berry drupaceous, round, one-celled, five- 
valved ; flowers very large and very fragrant — when they first open 
in the morning white, gradually growing yellow before night ; berry 
about the size of a pullet's egg, crowned by a small part only of the 
tube of the calyx ; leaves opposite or three in a whorl. It is a native 
of the East Indies on barren rocky hills, in the Circars and Cornatic. 
Gardenia lucida. Shining-leaved Gardenia. This is a middling 
sized tree, sub arboreous, unarmed, with resinous buds ; leaves oblong, 
smooth, shining, with lateral simple parallel veins ; flowers almost 
terminal, solitary, on short pedicels ; lobes of the calyx five, subulate, 
three times shorter than the tube of tlie corolla ; berry drupaceous, 
containing a two-valved shell ; leaves about six inches long and three 
broad ; peduncles clavate, one to one and a half inch long ; flowers 
large, purple-white, fragrant, five-parted. Native of Chittagong and 
various other parts of India,- and of the Island of Luzon, 
Gardenia clusicefolia. Clusia-leaved Gardenia. This is a shrub 
about five feet in height, unarmed, glabrous ; leaves obovate, retuse 
and somewhat emarginate, coriaceous, on short petioles ; peduncles 
almost terminal, racemose ; flowers on long pedicels ; limb of the 
calyx short, five-toothed ; corolla salver-shaped, with five linear acute 
segments, which are about the length of the tube ; flowers white, 
sweet-scented, with a greenish tube ; berry large, oval ; seeds imbed- 
ded in the pulp. The internal structure of the berry is unknown. It 
differs from Gardenia in the shape of the stigma and disposition of the 
flowers. Native of the Bahama Islands, where it is called by the in- 
habitants Seven Years' Apple. 
