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GARDENIA ameena. 
_ Chinese Gardema. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNI4A. 
Nat. ord. Ruspiacex.° Jussieu gen. 197. Div. IV. Fructus monocar- 
pus bilocularis polyspermus. Stamina quingue. Folia opposita; caulis sepé 
Sfrutescens. 
GARDENIA. Supra vol. 6. fol. 449. 
G. amena, spinis axillaribus rectis folio ovali acuto glabro brevioribus, ca- 
lyce campanulato denticulato, floribus terminalibus solitariis. Curtis’s 
magaz. 1904. 
A Chinese plant, said to have been introduced by the 
Duke of Marlborough, then Lord Blandford. : 
We do not trace it in any recorded species; but we have 
never had an opportunity of comparing the specimens with 
those in the different Herbariums. It forms a tall strag-— 
gling shrub, unequal to its own support, with short spinose 
arms. ‘The flowers are fragrant, and are tinged with a 
rosy hue. In the nurseries it has been mistaken for Garpr- 
“NIA spinosa. 
