This has been compared with authentic specimens of 
Nerium tinctorium of Roxburgh, communicated from the 
Botanic Garden, Calcutta, by Dr. Wallich, and found to 
agree with them in all respects. 
Stem shrubby, somewhat twining. Leaves opposite, 
subsessile, ovato-lanceolate, acunimate, membranous, 
smooth on each side, green and opaque above, paler be- 
neath, and netted with projecting veins. Cymes axillary, 
few-flowered, trichotomoiis, quite smooth. Pedicels round, 
green, slender. Bracts subulate. Sepals 6, ovate, trans- 
versely vrrinkled, gibbous. Scales between the calyx and 
corolla very minute, subulate. Corolla white, smooth, 
hypocrateriform ; tube twice as short as limb ; limb spread- 
ing, 5-parted ; segments linear, downy above, incurved at 
end, at the base having as many fringed appendages con- 
nected by shorter filiform processes and forming a corona ; 
tube fleshy, honey bearing meide, half closed by the gibbcms 
downy bases of the filaments. Stamens 5, alternate with 
the seg?nents, inserted in the orifice. Filaments short, 
linear, incurved, ^w^/ier* subulate, acuminate, conniving 
in a cone much shorter than the segments of the corolla, 
sagittate at base, somewhat downy at back, and adhering 
by the ciliated end to the fusifonn stigma, which has a 
ring in its middle. Ovary smooth, ovate. Style filiform. 
Hypogynous scales none. 
