The Tube-flowered Gardenia was introduced to Britain, in the year 1789, from Sierra Leone, and must, therefore, be treated as a tender hot-house plant. It grows, with us, to the height of about two feet before it flowers; and, from the beauty and size of the leaves, the regular, opposite manner in which it forms its branches, becomes a very handsome shrub. The flowers, which are produced in July, grow generally three together, at right angles, from the insertion of the leaves, in a bunch, which lasts about six or eight days, having but one flower open and perfect at a time, the decaying ones becoming brown. It is propagated, with ease, by cuttings, made in the month of March, and kept under a bell-glass, in a pot of stiffish loam, in the bark-bed of the hot-house, or a melon frame. The agreeable character, of a delicate fragrance, attendant on the blossoms of most species of this genus, is eminently powerful in this. Our drawing was made at the Hammersmith nursery; where, it was first raised, from seeds received in a present, by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, from the Hon. Sierra Leone Company. [Illustration] PLATE CLXXXIV. PERGULARIA MINOR. _Smaller Pergularia, or West-coast Creeper._ CLASS XX. ORDER VI. _of Linn. Gen. Plan. 1764._ _GYNANDRIA DECANDRIA._ Chives on the Pointal. Ten Chives. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX. Perianthium monophyllum, quinquefidum, erectum, acutum, persistens. COROLLA monopetala, hypocrateriformis; tubus cylindricus, calyce longior; limbus quinquepartitus, planus; laciniis oblongis. _Nectarium_, duplex; _exterium_ quinquefidum, quinquedentatum, plicato-angulatum, dentibus acutis, incurvis, apice corniculis nutantibus, approximatis; _interium_ quinquefidum, exteriori basi adnatum, squamulæ membranaceæ, apice denticulatæ, obtusæ, singula involvens stamina duo, alterna. STAMINA. Filamenta decem, capillaria, brevia, divaricata, per paria adnexa glandulis quinque stigmati affixis. Antheræ pellucidæ, luteæ, subrotundæ. PISTILLUM. Germina duo oblonga. Stylus brevissimus, carnosus. Stigma corpusculum conicum, obtusum, carnosum. PERICARPIUM. Folliculi duo, uniloculares, introrsum dehiscentes per longitudinem. SEMINA numerosa, parva, subrotunda. EMPALEMENT. Cup one leaf, five-cleft, upright, pointed and remaining. BLOSSOM one petal, salver-shaped; tube cylindrical, longer than the cup; border five-divided, flat, segments oblong. _Honey-cup_, double; _the outer_, five-cleft, five-toothed, plaited into angles, with the teeth pointed, incurved, approaching at the point by small nodding horns; the _inner_ five-cleft, growing to the base of the outer, scales skinny, toothed at the end, blunt, each covering two opposite chives. CHIVES. Threads ten, hair-like, short, straddling, connected by pairs to five glands fixed to the summit. Tips transparent, yellow, roundish. POINTAL. Seed-buds two, oblong. Shaft very short, fleshy. Summit a conical, obtuse, fleshy substance.