Mitriostigma
(from mitra, a mitre, and stigma; in reference to the shape of the pistil). ORD. Rubiaceae. A small genus (two species) of glabrous, unarmed, stove shrubs, related to Gardenia, with which they are usually classed. One comes from the Cape of Good Hope, and the other is a native of Fernando Po. Flowers disposed in short, few-flowered, branched cymes; calyx tube ovoid; limb five-parted; corolla narrowly campanulate, with a short tube, a glabrous or villous throat, and a five-lobed rotundate limb. Leaves opposite, petiolate, membranaceous, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate. For culture of M. axillare, see Gardenia.
M. axillare (axillary-flowered).* fl. white, very fragrant, single, axillary. Spring. l. opposite, somewhat coriaceous, elliptical, lanceolate, dark green. h. 5ft. Natal. A compact spreading species. (B. M. 4987, under name of Gardenia citriodora.)