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quite as hardy as B. triphylla, and flowers best when planted out in the open ground early in spring; but “in 
order to make it bloom abundantly, it should be cut back when it is repotted. ” 
GENUS III. 
BURCHELLIA R. Br. THE BURCHELLIA. 
Lin. Syst. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Character. — Limb of the calyx drawn out beyond the 
ovarium, five-cleft beyond the middle. Corolla clavately funnel- 
shaped ; throat naked ; lobes imbricated, and twisted in asstivation. 
Filaments adnate to the tube at the base ; anthers inclosed. Stigma 
bearing five convex crests on the outside, and tufts of hairs. Berry 
crowned by the calyx, turbinately globose. Placentas adnate to the 
dissepiment. Seeds angular. Flowers capitate. ((?. Lon.) 
Description, &c. — Only two species of this genus have as yet been discovered, and both are shrubs, natives of 
the Cape of Good Hope, with scarlet flowers disposed in heads at the top of the branches. The name of Burchellia 
was given to the genus in honour of Mr. Burchell, who collected many thousand plants during his travels in South 
Africa and South America. 
1.— BURCHELLIA CAPBNSIS M. Br. THE CAPE BURCHELLIA. 
Synonymes. — B. bubalina Sims; Lonicera bubalina Lin. ; Ce- 
phaelis bubalina Pers. ; Buffelhorn Dutch. 
Engravings. — Bot. Mag., t. 2339 ; Bot. Reg., t. 466; and our 
fig. 3, in PI. 35. 
Specific Character. — Leaves ovate, acute, clothed with hispid 
pubescence. Stipules very broad and very short, cuspidate at the apex. 
Anthers adnate to the upper part of the tube of the corolla. {Q. Don.) 
Description, &c.— ^This species forms a large shrub at the Cape of Good Hope, where it has received its name 
of Buflel or Bufialo-Hom from the hardness of its wood. When it was first introduced it was supposed to be a 
kind of Honeysuckle, and was placed in that genus by the younger Linnseus. As, however, it was found on 
further examination not fully to accord with that or any other known genus, it received its present name. It 
requires to be kept in a warm greenhouse all the year, and it should be grown in rich light soil. The flowers are 
very ornamental, and their beauty is increased by having two large leaves close below them, which serve as a back 
ground. The species was introduced in 1818. 
OTHER SPECIES OF BURCHELLIA. 
BURCHELLIA PARVIFLORA Lindl. 
This species differs from B. capensis not only in the comparatively small size of its flowers, but in its difierent 
shaped leaves. The flowers also form a much more compact head, and they are of a paler and less brilliant 
colour. The species is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, whence it was introduced in 1824. 
GENUS IV. 
GARDENIA Ellis. THE CAPE JASMINE. 
Lin. Syst. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Generic Character. — Limb of tbe calyx truncate or tootbed. 
Corolla funnel or salver-shaped, having the tube much longer than the 
calyx ; limb twisted in aestivation, from five to nine-parted, spreading. 
Anthers from five to nine, linear, nearly sessile in the throat. Stigma 
clavate, bifid. Berry fleshy, crowned by the calyx, incompletely from 
two to five-celled. Seeds minute, immersed in the fleshy parietal 
placentas. (O. Don.) 
Description, &c. — Most of the plants belonging to this genus are natives of the Tropics, and, consequently. 
