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CVII. An Account of the Gardenia ; InaLet~ 
ter to Philip Carteret Webb, Efq\ F.R.S. 
from Daniel C. Solander, M. D. 
Dear Sir, 
Rcl f 7 62. c ' * 3 ’ A FTER begging your acceptance of 
jHL m y very fincere thanks for the many 
civilities you were pleafed to honour me with, while 
I wasat your delightful retirement at Bujbridge ; I fhall 
with pleafure acquit ray felf of my promife to give you 
the beft hi (lor i cal account in my power of the GAR- 
DENIA Jafminoides, together with Jome Jew obferva~ 
tiom on the fame plant. 
The Gardenia is at prefent well known among the 
Englilh gardeners by name of the Cape Jafmine , tho’ 
it has been but a few years in this country. It was 
hrE brought here 1744 from the Cape of Good Hope 
by Captain Hutchenfon , in the Godolphin Indiaman, 
and by him prefented to Richard Warner , Efq ; of 
Woodford Row , Effexj in whofe garden it long remain- 
ed without the leaft lign of vegetation j but at laft 
proved to be the moil beautiful fhrub that has been 
introduced among us for a long time. And indeed, 
the botanic world is as much indebted to the above- 
named gentleman, for his fkill and care in the preferva- 
tion of the plant, as for his generality in communi- 
cating it to the public. 
When this plant firlf fhewed itfelf, it was thought 
a new and unknown one to the European botanifts ; 
and tho it came to blolfom freely, the Flowers un- 
fortunately 
