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GARDENIA florida; «: flore simplici. 
Sing le-flowered Cape Jasmine. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat, ord. RuBiaces. Jussieu gen. 196. Div. IV. Fructus monocar- 
pus bilocularis polyspermus. Stam. 5. Fol. opposita; caulis spe frutes- 
cens. . 
GARDENIA. Cal. numero segmentorum varius. Cor. infundibuli- 
formis. Germ. inferum, 1-loculare, receptaculis 2 v. pluribus, parietalibus, 
ovula numerosa alfigentibus. Bacea 1-locularis, polysperma. Embryo di- 
rectione varius. Ltoxrburgh MSS. (ex angl.) 
Div. Inermes. 
G. florida, fruticosa, foliis ovatis, utrinque attenuatis; baccis elongato-tur- 
‘binatis costis tot acuté prominentibus quot segmenta calycis, Roxb. loc. 
cit. (ex angl.) 
Gardenia florida. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 9. 1. 305. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n.'7. ' Thunb. 
diss. de Gardenia. n. 2. Ejusd. fl. jap. 108. Loureiro cochin. 147; (fide 
speciminis archetypi Herb. banks. asservati). Hort. Kew. 1. 293. ed. 2. 
1, 368. Willd. sp, pl. 1. 1225. Smith in Rees’s cyclop. in loco. ~ 
Arbuscula sinensis, Myrti majoris folio, vasculo seminali hexagono, ad sin- 
gulos angulos alis foliaceis munito, que porrecte vasculi coronam effor- 
mant, Umki Sinensibus dicta. Plukn. amalth. 29. 
Frutex cynosbati fructd alato, tinctorio, barbulis longioribus coronato. Petiv, 
mus. 498. ay hist, 3. 233. 
Si vulgd Kutsjinas. Kempf. amen. exot. fase. 5. 808. 
(a) flore simplici. 1 
Gardenia jasminoides. Solander in philosoph. trans. 52. 654. tab. 20; (ex- 
emplario sicco desumpta). 
Umki, alidts Umuy; cujus fructum ad colorem escarlatinum tingendum in- 
servit; florem fert rosaceum, album, hexapetalum. Plukn. amalth. 212. 
tab. 448. fig. 4. 
(2) flore pleno. 
Gardenia jasminoides. Ellis in philosoph. trans. 51. 935. tab. 23. 
Jasminum? ramo unifloro pleno, petalis coriaceis. Ehret pict. tab. 15. 
Jasminum foliis lanceolatis oppositis integerrimis calycibus acutioribus. Mill, 
ic. tab. 180. 
Catsjopiri. Rumph. amb. 7. 26. t. 14. fig. 2. 
Frutex. Germ. turbinatum costis 5-6 acute prominentibus, fundo 3-5- 
loculare, supra 1-loculare. +»Bacca oblonga, aurantiaca, glabra, magnitu- 
dine ovi columbini, costis 5-6 & seqmentis calycinis, persistentibus decurren- 
tibus angulata, 1-locularis: receptacula sepius 4 de paricte interaned usque 
ad % partem diametri cavitatis loculamenti prostantia, indeque in lobos 2 v. 
plures discedentia: sem. numerosa, pulpa aurantiaca nidulantia, subrotunda, 
subcompressa, rugosa. Roxb. |. c. (ex angl.) 
There is no published figure of this shrub from the living 
plant in the single-flowered state; but we find an engraving 
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