GARDENIA STANLEY AN A. 
(Lord Stanley's Gardenia.) 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
CINCHONACEjE . 
Generic Character.— Calyx with an ovate, usually i calyx. Seeds minute. Embryo albuminous.— Don's 
ribbed tube, and„a tubular, truncate, toothed, cleft, or 
parted limb. Corolla funnel, or salver-shaped, having 
the tube much longer than the calyx, and the limb 
twisted in aestivation, but afterwards spreading, 
from five to nine-parted. Anthers five to nine, linear, 
almost sessile in the throat of the corolla, or exserted. 
Stigma clavate, bifid, or bidentate ; lobes thick, erect. 
Ovarium one-celled, half divided by two to five incom- 
plete dissepiments. Berry fleshy, crowned by the 
Gard. and Botany. 
Specific Character. — Plant a shrub, evergreen. 
Stems unarmed, very glabrous. Leaves ternate, ovately- 
elliptical, acuminate, with short petioles. Flowers 
solitary, terminal. Calyx-limb five-toothed. Corolla, 
tube very glabrous, very long, increasing upwards, 
with a spreading limb, divided into five, obliquely- 
ovate, subcordate lobes. 
This remarkable plant is a product of Sierra Leone, in Africa ; with the exact 
date of its introduction from thence, by its discoverer, Mr. Whitfield, botanical, &c, 
collector to the Earl of Derby, we are unacquainted ; but doubtless it was at some 
preceding period near to last year, early in the spring of which it first bore flowers 
in this country, at Kew. Sir Wm. Hooker is the author of the title by which it is 
specified. 
It is a most desirable plant, noble for growing in a stove conservatory, or where, 
in an agreeable temperature, its roots and branches would have ample space. It is 
not rank, or strong growing, but is remarkable for the freedom and woodiness of its 
growth. Its branches grow wide and spreading, and in a peculiarly horizontal man- 
ner ; on their surface, at the axils of the leaves of the young terminal shoots rise the 
noble, highly fragrant flowers, in the most gratifying profusion. Their size and 
appearance would indicate that they could be produced by large plants only, but in 
this respect they convey an erroneous impression ; for those of such dimensions as 
would permit their being admitted to the most limited collections flower quite freely, 
and that without any recourse being had to peculiar culture, to induce them to do 
so. The flowers also have another value, from developing themselves at different 
periods of the year ; how far they may be distinguished for doing so naturally has 
scarcely yet been discovered, but their doing so at all suggests the possibility of 
having them frequently, when skill is employed to aid their production. And even 
without flowers the plant is very acceptable, its profuse, handsome, shining foliage _ 
rendering it so. 
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