Chives. Threads none. Tips five, fixed into the mouth of the tube, linear, striped, half the length of the border.
Pointal. Seed-bud beneath. Shaft thread-shaped or club-shaped. Summit standing out, egg-shaped, obtuse, two-lobed, often furrowed.
Seed-vessel. A dry berry, one, two, or four-celled.
Seeds many, flattened, lying upon one another in tiers.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Gardenia inermis; foliis elipticis, undulatis, floribus ternis; corollæ laciniis tortis, linearibus, reflexis, tubo filiformi, longissimo.
Gardenia without thorns; with eliptical, undulated leaves; flowers grow by threes; the segments of the blossom are twisted, linear, reflexed, the tube thread shaped, very long.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The Cup and Seed-bud.
2. A Blossom cut open, with the Chives remaining at the mouth.