G A R D E N I A T U B I F L O R A.
Tube-flowered Gardenia.
CLASS V. ORDER I.
PE NT AND R J A MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal.
G E N E R I C C
C A L Y X . Periantbium monophyllum, quinquefidum,
fuperum, laciniis erectis, perfiftentibus.
C O R O L L A monopetala, infuudibuliformis; tubus
cylindricus, calyce longior; limbus planus,
q u i n q u e p a r t i t u s .
STAMINA. Filaments nulla. Anthers; quinqué,
ore tubi infertse, lineares, ftriatas, Jongitudine
dimidia lirabi.
P I S T I L L I ' M . Germen inferum. Stylus filtformis
feu clavatus. Stigma exlertum, ovat
u m , obtufum, bilobum, faepe fulcatum.
P E I U C A R P I U M . Bacca licca, uni bis feu-quadrilocularis.
SEMINA plurima, depretfa, per feries imbricatim
libi impolita.
S P E C I F I C
Gardenia inermis; folds elipticis, undulatis, floribus
ternis; corolla; laciniis tortis, linearibus,
reflexis, tubo filíformi, longiflimo.
H A R A C T E R .
KMPALEMENT. Cup one leaf, five-cleft, above,
fegments uprigbt, permanent.
BLOSSOM one petal, fuunel-lbaped; tube cylindrical,
longer than the c u p ; border flat,
five divifions.
C H I V E S . Threads none. Tips live, fixed into
t h e mouth of t h e tube, linear, firiped, half
the length of the border.
P O I N T A L . Seed-bud beneath. Shaft threadihaped
or club ftiapcd. Summit Handing
out, cgg-(ha|>cd, obtufo, two-lobed, often
furrowed.
SEED-VESSEL. A dry berry, one, two, or fourcelled.
SEEDS many, flattened, lying upon one another
C H A R A C T E R .
Gardenia without t h o r n s ; with eliptical, undulated
leaves; flowers grow by threes; the
fegments of the blolfom are twilled, linear,
reflexed, the tube thread ihaped, very long.
R E F E R E N C E T O T H E P L A T E .
1. T h e Cup and Seed-bud.
2. A Blolfom cut open, with the Chives remaining at the mouth.
3. T h e Shaft and its Summit, the fummit detached and magnified.
T H E Tube-flowered Gardenia was introduced to Britain, in the year 1 7 8 9 , from Sierra Leone, and
mull, therefore, be treated as a tender hot-houfe plant. It grows, with us, to the height of about two
feet before it flowers; and, from die beauty and fizc of the leaves, the legular, oppoftte manner in
which it forms its b r a n c h e s , becomes a very handfome thriib. The flowers, which are produced in
J u l y , grow generally three together, at right angles, from the infertioo of the leaves, in a bunch,
which lulls about fix or eight days, having but one flower open and perfect at a time, the decaying
ones becoming brown. It is propagated, with eafe, by cuttings, made in the month of March, and
kept under a bell-glafs, in a pot of liirfilh loam, in t h e bark-bed of the hot-houfe, or a melon frame.
T h e agreeable character, of a delicate fragrance, attendant on the bloflbms of moll fpecies of this genus,
is eminently powerful in this. Our d r a w i n g was n u d e at the Hamme rfmitli nurfery; where, it
was flrft railed, from feeds received in a prefent, by Meflrs. Lee and Kennedy, from the Hon. Sierra
Leone Company.