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TABERNJEMONTANA amygdalifolia 



jllmoTid'leaved Tahe'i^cemontana, 



PENTANDRIA M0N0GYNI.4. 



Nat. ord* Apocine^* CaL 5*divi$u6, persistens. Cor, l-petaln, hypo^ 

 gyna, regularise S-loba* sestivatione Jmbricata, decidua. S£a)}}, epipetala^ 

 lacmiis limbi aUerna. FiL distincta. Ant/t, 2-locuIares, longitudinalit^r 

 dehiscentes. Pollen granulosum, stigmati immediate applicitum. (iermina 

 2, V, 1, btloculare^ in plurimis polyspermum. Siyli 2, v, 1, Stigma ]» 

 Fructus folticularis, capsularis, drupaceus^ v. baccatus, duplex v. simplex* 

 Semina saepissim^ albuminosa. Embryo fuliaceus. Plumula inconspicua. 

 Arbores V* yrutices sape lactescentes. Folia opposite, nunc verticillata^ rarii 

 sparsa^ integerrima ciliis glandulisve interpetiotaribus Sispius tnstructa^ Brown 

 prod. 1.465- 



Dix^. JL Semina non comosa. Fructus bifollicularis. 



TABERNMMONTANA, Cor. hypocrateriformis, limbo 5-partito,. 

 Stamina inclusa: Antkeris ^SigxitaXiB* Germinal., Stylus ^Wfoimi^, Stigma 

 ^ dilatata base biBdum. Folliculi % Semina pulpa immersa. ArbuscuUe, 

 Folia opposila. StipuUe irtterpetiolares^ infrh aanatiSy apice soluta* Ci/m^ 

 subdichotomte. Calyx persintens. Brown loc. cit. 467* 



T. amygdalrfoliat foliis oppositisovali'lanceolatis^ staminibus tubum coroUs 



superantibus. WiUd. sp*pL 1. 1245. 

 Taberncemnntana amygdalifolia. Jacq. amer. 39* tab, 181-J^^* 15. 

 Cestrum nervosum. Mill. diet. 8. n, 3; (affirmante specimine archetypo in 



Herb, Banks* asservato.) 

 Cestrum foliis lanceolatis oppositis nerris transversalibus pedunculis ramo^ift. 



MilL diet, ed, ?• n. 3. 



The Cestrum nervosum of the eighth edition of Miller's 

 Gardener's Dictionary, appears never to have been taken up 

 either as a S3monym or separate species, in any other enume- 

 ration of plants; and seems to have been entirely overlooked 

 in all subsequent botanical works. We know however that it 

 is of the present species, and that it has flowered with us, by 

 Miller's own specimen, gathered in the Chelsea Garden, and 

 now preserved in the Banksian Herbai-ium. It does not 

 appear in either edition of the Hortus Kewensis even by the 

 present title, though it has been cultivated in our collections 

 for more than half a century. What plants there are of 

 it in this country, we suspect, are scions of the one originally 

 received by Miller from Carthagena in South America, 

 where Jacquin's plant was also found. The drawing was 

 taken at Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, of the Fulham 

 nursery, where it is cultivated in the hothouse. 



The following is the description of the plant, as given in 

 the Gardener's Dictionary. " It rises with a shrubby stalk 



