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arity of the Calyx, were fufficiejit to perfuade him 
of its being a new genus ; but as the Stamina muft 
be uncertain in double flowers, he could not then 
undertake to determine its characters. However, foon 
afterwards Dr. Lnmaus wrote word, that he had 
found a Angle flower of this fame plant, among fome 
fpecimens from the Eajl Indies, and no longer fcrup- 
led to agree to Ellis’s determination of the Gardenia. 
There wanted nothing then, but an account of the 
Fruitj and efpecially the number of Seeds; and Mr. 
Ellis , who was well acquainted with obfervations on 
the moft minute parts of nature foon difcovered, that 
the Seedveflel contained rudiments of many Seeds ; 
tho’, it feems, the veracity of this particular has been 
muchqueftioned} which, no doubt, has arofe from the 
imperfeCt ftate, that all fruits and feeds commonly 
appear in, after double flowers, as in the prefent cafe. 
But it was my good fortune, while I was at your 
moft agreeable feat at Bujbridge, and where you 
indulged me with a fight of your curious collections 
of dryed Plants, to difcover a fpecimen of this fhrub 
in perfeCt Fruit, gathered by Mr. Cunningham , in the 
Ea(l Indies , where that gentleman travelled for dis- 
covery of natural curioftties. Upon my declaring 
this, you was fo obliging, as to permit my dif- 
feCting the fruit, for examination} when you re- 
member, Sir, we had the fatisfaCtion to And, that 
the generical characters of the Gardenia given by Mr. 
Ellis in the Philofophical Eranfaclions, vol. LI. p. 929. 
were very compleat. I will only beg leave to add 
a few particulars, that could not be feen in an imper- 
feCt or immature fruit. 
The Seed-vejfel, when ripe, is egg-fhaped, out- 
wardly ribbed from the defcending wings of the 
flower 
