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rather broader, thinner, and green leaves, from Senegambia, 
gathered by Handelot. Again in 1843, Mr. Whitfield gave me 
dried specimens which he brought from Sierra Leone, and the 
same year he enriched the stoves at Knowsley with living 
specimens. Our plant, which as far as I know, is the first to 
have flowered in this country, is derived from the same source, 
and we gladly illustrate another fine species of a group of 
Rubiacece peculiar to tropical western Africa. 
Gardenia Malleifera loves heat and moisture, and planted in a 
good-sized pot, with a mixture of peat and loam, makes rapid 
progress, and begins to flower when only two or three feet high. It 
would seem to be in its native country a large shrub. The corolla 
is a span long, white or cream white, soon, in age, changing to a 
tawny; the outside clothed with a short woolly down ; the tube 
four inches long, as thick as a goose-quill, curved, thin, at the 
top rather suddenly expanding into a broad, campanulate mouth; 
the limb of five, broad, ovato-rotundate, slightly waved, large, 
spreading segments. This campanulate mouth contains the five 
sessile linear anthers ; the style is filiform, longer than the tube, 
beyond the mouth singularly enlarged into a club, or rather 
clapper-shaped stigma, two and a half inches long, and half an 
inch broad in the thickest part, white, solid, fleshy, streaked in 
the upper extremity longitudinally, with impressions of the 
anthers, which were applied there in the state of the bud. The 
real stigmatic surface, however, is upon this swollen part, and is 
distinguished by a cleft on each side the apex, and that cleft is 
surrounded by a yellow, waxy, glutinous substance.— Bot. Mag . 
4307. 
Berberide.#:. —Hexandria Monogynia. 
Berberis ilicifolia (De Candolle). Of this rare and beautiful 
Berberry, hitherto only known to the hardy adventurer on the 
coasts of Fuegia, beyond the straits of Magalhaens, living plants 
were sent home by the officers of the Antarctic voyage, under 
Captain Sir James Ross, to the Royal Gardens, with other treasures 
of those regions. So much did they suffer during their perilous 
voyage, that, of the Berberis , only one could be successfully 
reared, and that has, during the month of March 1847, produced 
its deep orange-coloured blossoms, which, taken in conjunction 
