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TABERN/EMONTANA gratissima. 
Fragrant Tabernemontana. 
ie E Bld 
PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. APOCYNEE. 
TABERNÆMONTANA. Supra, vol. 4. fol. 338. 
T. gratissima ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis undulatis glabris, dentibus calycinis 
ovatis acutis, corolle laciniis convexis difformibus crenulatis, cymis diva- 
ricatis, floribus cernuis. Lindley in Trans. Hort. Soc. vol. vii. part 1. 
Frutex lactescens, in caldario tripedalis, ad apicem ramosus, cortice 
cinereo maculato. Ramuli teretes, atro-virides, cinereo sparse maculati. 
Folia rudimento ligule in axillá, glabra, petiolata, ovalia, acuminata, inte- 
gerrima, suprà atro-viridia, subtüs pallidiora, venosa. Cymi semper gemini, 
basi connati, intrapetiolares, fere horizontales, petioli longitudine, glaberrimi, 
biternati. Pedicelli breves, crassi. Calyx parvus, 5-dentatus, lacinüs ovato- 
lanceolatis, imbricatis, integris. Corolla albo-lutescens, fragrantissima, hypo- 
crateriformis, tubo cylindrico versüs apicem pro staminibus ventricoso, limbo 
tubo pauld breviore, maximê contorto, lacinüs oblongis, convexis, margine 
undulatis. "Tubus incoronatus, ad faucem carnosus, paulo constrictus, intüs 
glaber. Stamina filamentis pilosis parieti tubi adnatis ; anthere libere, 
oblonge, acute : loculis linearibus, connectivo crasso carnoso. Pollen album, 
sphericum. Ovarium superum, subrotundum, bilobum, acuminatum, disco 
nullo, carnosum, biloculare, ovulis omnind in substantid carnosá reconditis. 
Stylus basi bulbosus bipartitus, ultra simplex filiformis. Stigma bilobum, in 
cyatho capitato carnoso insidens. 
-The following extract from the Transactions of the Hor- 
ticultural Society, vol. vii. part 1. contains all that is 
known to us of this plant. 
< In many respects this resembles T. coronaria of Rox- 
burgh, from which it is distinguished by the form of the 
teeth of the calyx, and by the direction of the cymes, which 
are not erect, but recurved; and by the form of the seg- 
ments of the limb, which are not flat, as in T. coronaria, 
but convex, much twisted, and exceedingly uneven at the 
