PERICARPIUM. Capsula trilocularis, triangularis. SEMINA plurima. OBS. In quibusdam speciebus germen est superum: in aliis inferum. EMPALEMENT. Spathe common, oblong, opening sideways. BLOSSOM one-petalled, 6-cleft. CHIVES. Threads six, inserted into the blossom. Tips oblong. POINTAL. Seed-bud oblong, beneath. Shaft simple. SEED-VESSEL. Capsule three-locular, three-angled. SEEDS many. OBS. In some species the seed-bud is above, in others beneath. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. PONTEDERIA germine supero: foliis sagittatis, obtusis, vel acutis: floribus umbellatis, confertis, cæruleis. Habitat in India Orientali. PONTEDERIA with the seed-buds above: leaves arrow-shaped, obtuse, or pointed: flowers in crowded umbels, of a blue colour. Native of the East Indies. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A blossom spread open. 2. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 3. The plant in miniature. This handsome aquatic is a native of the East Indies, and figured in Col. Syms’s Embassy to the Kingdom of Ava, under the title of Pontederia dilatata. On examining some plants in the hot-house of J. Vere, esq. (whence our figure was taken) we observed so much variation in them, that we are inclined to think the P. hastata of Dr. Roxburgh’s Coromandel Plants represents (from a weak plant) the same species our figure delineates. [Illustration] PLATE CCCCXCI. GARDENIA RADICANS. _Rooting Gardenia._ CLASS V. ORDER I. _PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Five Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX 1-phyllus, 5-fidus, persistens. COROLLA contorta, monopetala, 5-partita. STAMINA. Filamenta nulla. Antheræ quinque. Bacca infera, 2-locularis, polysperma. Stylus elevatus, bilobus. EMPALEMENT 1-leafed, 5-parted, and remaining. BLOSSOM twisted, one-leafed, 5-parted. CHIVES. Threads none. Tips 5. Berry beneath, 2 loculaments, many-seeded. Shaft above, 2-lobed. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. GARDENIA foliis lanceolatis: corollis hypocrateriformibus, albis, odoratissimis: calyce angulato: caule radicante. GARDENIA with lance-shaped leaves: blossom pitcher-shaped, white, and very sweet-scented: cup angular: stem rooting. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The empalement. 2. The blossom spread open. 3. Seed-bud and pointal. The Gardenia radirans is a native of Japan, and is figured by Thunberg in his Botanical Dissertation. The figure is small and coarse, but yet characteristic. We have represented a fine young plant, as its fragrant flowers are then much better relieved by the surrounding leaves. It is at present cultivated in the hot-house; but we are inclined to think it might succeed in the protection of the green-house. The luxuriance of its petals frequently absorbs nearly all the parts of fructification. But our specimen fortunately afforded three antheræ out of the five, and the pointal entire.