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GARDENIA radicans. 
Double-flowered dwarf Gardenia, 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA 
GARDENTA. Cal.5-dentatus aut 5- (9-) fidus laciniis interdim 
obliquatis. Cor. infundibuliformis tubo sepé longo, limbo plano 
6-Q-tido. Stam. antheris sessilibus, intra faucem latentibus aut parim 
exsertis. Bacca sicca 2-4-locularis polysperma, seminibus: numerosis 
duplici serie dispositis in singulo loculo. Arbores aut frutices. Folia 
opposita. Flores subsolitarit terminales aut axillares. “Genus in vivis 
recognoscendum. Jussieu. gen. 202. 
G. radicans, inermis, foliis lanceolatis, corollis hypocrateriformibus ob- 
tusis, calyce angulato, caule radicante. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 1225. 
Gardenia radicans. Thunb. diss. de Gardenia. n. 1. t. 1. f. 1. jap. 109. 
 t, 20. Syst. veg. Murr. ed. 14. 251. | Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 368. 
_ Andrews’s reposit. 491. ; 
Kutsjinar, altera. Kempf. amen. 808. jen 
Frutex pedem pariim exsuperans, ramosus, glaber ; caulis teres, crassitudine 
calami. Folia opposita vel sepits terna, elliptico-lanceolata, firmula, utringue 
attenuata longinguiis tamen versus basin, 1-2-unctalia, viz unguam tres - 
partes uncie transversa, lucida, saturaté viridia, patentia. Stipulee intra- 
Joliacee, vaginantes, membranacee, ovate. Flores ramorum terminales, 
erecti, solitari. Cal. virens, angulatus, glaber, 5-partitus, segmentis acu» 
minatis erectis tubo. corolle feré duplo brevioribus. bor, alba, coriacea, oda+ 
ratissima, flavido-emarcescens. iT: 
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The present species 1s only known to us as bearing 
flowers in a multiplied state. It is not easy to say in what 
respect it differs from Garventa florida (the Cape Jasmine), 
except in being of much inferior size. Radicans seldom 
exceeds the height of a foot, florida often becomes six or 
seven feet high; the leaf in the firstis from one to two inches 
long, and seldom more than three parts of an inch over; in 
the latter nearly three times that size, of a more oblong 
form, and not tapered nearly so far towards the base. The 
_ disproportion between the flowers of the two is less; these 
in both are of the same coriaceous substance, whiteness, 
and delightful fragrance, and in both fade awa, after 
nearly a fortnight’s endurance, to a yellow hue. ‘I'he habit 
ascribed to the present species, of putting out roots from 
the stem aboye ground, and which has suggested the name, 
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