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TABERNAMONTANA* densiflóra. 
Close-flowered Tabernemontana. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGY NIA. 
Nat. ord. AeoCT ex: 
TABERNZEMONTANA. — Supra, vol. 4. fol. 338. 
T. densiflora; foliis lanceolatis acuminatis approximatis nunc ternatis, cymá 
multiflorá brevé pedunculatá, laciniis calycis bracteisque lineari-lanceo- 
latis acutis, corollee limbo tubum subeequante, folliculis monospermis. — 
Wallich MSS. | 
A curious new species, introduced in 1824 by the Honourable Court of 
Directors of the East India Company, by whom it was presented to the 
Horticultural Society, in whose Garden at Chiswick” our drawing was made 
in June 1827. in ea — - 
A tender stove plant, extremely different in habit from the common 
T. coronaria, of the agreeable perfume of which it is entirely destitute. 
Propagated by cuttings. P 
Dr. Wallich has been so kind as to favour us with the following inter- 
esting account of this and the other Indian species; the greater part either 
wholly new, or now described for the first time, TE 
« I am in some doubt as to the part of India from which this pretty shrub was 
introduced into the Honourable Company's Botanic Garden at Calcutta. I suspect, 
however, that it was brought from Ceylon, as I have seen a specimen in the Herbarium 
of my friend Mr. Lindley, which was collected on that island by Mr. M'Rae. 
The following are the East Indian species/of Tabernemontana that have come under 
my own observation :— i 
1. T. coronaria. Willd. J 
This is a very common shrub in gardens allover India, both single and double. I 
have found it seemingly wild in the forests of Lower Nipal, about Hetounda, and a: 
Singapore. 
2. T. recurva. Roxb. Hort. . p. 20. 
T. gratissima. Lindl. in Bot. . vol. 13. p. 1084. 4 
A native of the district of Chittagong in Bengal, from whence it was sent to the 
Calcutta Garden by the late Dr. Hamilton. : : : : 
3. T. crispa. Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 20. — Foliis oblongis undulatis acutis, pedunculis 
paucifloris, pedicellis elongatis, calyce pun 5-partito : laciniis lato-ovatis foliaceis. _ 
Dr. Roxburgh says, in his MS. Indica, that he knows not from whence this 
* James Theodorus (commonly called Tabernemontanus, from Bergzabern, in Alsace, 
the place of his birth) was a Botanist of the sixteenth century, whose works have long 
sunk into oblivion. He died in 1590. 
