which demand every inch available. The 
flowers secrete much nectar.” 
TRANSVAAL GREYIA (G. radlkoferi). 
A moderate-sized tree with big saucer-like 
leaves crowded at the ends of the branch- 
es, and somewhat smaller scarlet flowers 
from the leaf axils. 
GARDENIA TREES 
Besides the four species described in 
my 1958 catalog, and these are still avail- 
able, I am now able to offer four of five 
new kinds of Gardenia trees, all of them 
of great promise as ornamentals in Flor- 
ida. Don’t ask me about blooming sea- 
sons, resistance to nematodes or other 
questions on these newcomers because I 
cannot answer; I am putting down here 
all I know about them. 
"Gardenia pseudopsidium. This small 
evergreen tree to 20 feet native to the 
Philippines, has 6-inch dark green leaves 
and bears solitary pure white or yellowish, 
fragrant flowers in the leaf axils. The 
tubular blossoms, 3 to 4 inches across, 
have a wheel-shaped corolla. These are 
followed by round inedible fruits resem- 
bling guavas. 
*Gardenia lucida. This large shrub or 
small tree to 25 ft. from Burma and south- 
ern India, lives up to its name, for “lucida” 
means brilliant or shining. The single 
5-petaled flowers to 4 inches across in the 
leaf axils near the branch tips, open pure 
white at evening, soon turning yellow. 
The tube is 14-2 inches long. The new 
shoots of this tree are smooth and shining 
and covered with a thin yellowish coating 
of resin which frequently forms globules 
at the tips. This tree is particularly well 
suited to dry areas. 
*Gardenia tubifera. Corner wrote in 
“Wayside Trees of Malaya”: “A tree to 
60 feet with flowers 14-38% inches wide, 
fragrant but not strong. The flowers of 
this superb tree open at dusk and last for 
3 nights. They are cream-white the first 
night, chrome-buff the next day, and in- 
tensely orange on the third day when they 
fall off. 
*DURBAN GARDENIA (G. globosa). 
Evergreen shrub or small tree which in 
spring covers itself with masses of single, 
scented, somewhat campanulate flowers 
that vary in color and sizes on different 
plants, usually cream with spotted cen- 
ters, 1% inches long and broad. Lady 
Rockley reported the petals “white with 
a few cherry-red lines pointing from the 
dull gold inside of the tube.” 
"Gardenia sp. From Mozambique, 
East Africa. The Department of Agricul- 
ture at Inhambane wrote me: “This is a 
small tree up to 12 feet, thorny, with 
small leaves, white flowers about 4-5 
inches across, fragrant and attractive, 
globose fruit about 5 inches diameter, not 
very attractive. Grows well in sandy soil, 
if deep. Slow grower. Good for gar- 
dens.” 
GOURLIEA (G. chilensis). South 
American 15-foot tree of the pea family 
bearing orange butterfly-like flowers in 
short loose clusters. It is cultivated in the 
Rio Grande country. 
VARIABLE HIBISCUS (H. diversifo- 
lius). “A good 6-foot garden shrub for 
coastal areas,” wrote Lord of this Austral- 
ian native, “with showy yellow, red-cen- 
tered flowers.” It likes moist areas. “Very 
charming,” says Harris and calls the flow- 
ers primrose-colored. “A lovely flower 
6-inches across that we use in float bowls,” 
wrote Dr. George H. Hewitt. “It is usu- 
ally a perennial but often dies to the roots 
and shoots again like the H. syriacus type.” 
MAGNOLIA CAMPBELLI 
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