GARDENIA DEVONIANA. 
(Duke of Devonshire’s Gardenia.) 
Class. 
PENTANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
CINCHONACEiE. 
Order. 
MQNOGYNI A. 
Generic Character.— See page 169. 
Specific Character. — Plant a shrub, evergreen, un- 
armed. Leaves opposite, papyraceous, petiolated, undu- 
lated, oblong, acuminate ; the younger ones somewhat 
pilose, retuse, glabrous, axillary, tomentose beneath. 
Flowers solitary, erect, terminal. Ovarium pyriform, 
smooth. Sepals linear, spreading, divided to the base. 
Corolla very long ; the tube slender, with a campanu- 
late throat, and divided into five obtuse, revolute, 
oblique, emarginate lobes. — Lindley. 
When publishing the fine member of this family, Gardenia Stanley ana , we had 
little anticipation of so soon meeting with anything comparable ; here, however, we 
have an ally of it, not only equal, but superior ; a native of the same country, intro- 
duced to England about the same time, by the same collector ; flowered for the first 
time in September last, and given by the same gentleman who obliged us with G . 
Stanleyana. The last-mentioned species it differs from and surpasses, in having 
more ample foliage and finer flowers ; and the latter are more blossom-like, not pos- 
sessing a tube of so leathery a texture and aspect, which in the real flower appears 
as unlike a part of that organ of a plant as it can -well be imagined to do. Full 
development of the blossoms leaves them white, which colour presently changes to 
that our artist has found them, and for the most part the flower, constituting the 
subject of the plate, is thus represented. In fragrance, duration, manner and 
periods of production, the inflorescence of G. Devoniana may be looked upon as 
resembling its congener, already mentioned ; as, also, may it in the manner of its 
increase and requirements under culture. 
Beautiful evergreen shrubs, bearing such noble flowers as these Gardenias do, 
cannot fail of becoming universal favorites ; and lest it may be thought they require 
too much room for culturists generally to think of growing them, we may again state, 
comparatively small plants bloom. Those wishing to produce large specimens may 
attain their object much sooner by, in addition to giving them a good heat and em- 
ploying other auxiliaries, removing the flower-buds as they appear ; indeed, if plants 
of considerable dimensions are desired, this step will be a necessary one, so lavish 
are they of their floral favours, 
