Ervatamia. | LXXXIV. APOCYNACEE (STAPF). 127 
stigma at the level of the anthers, clavate or oblong-ellipsoid, with a 
slender papillose bifid apiculus ; ovules numerous, pluriseriate. Meri- 
carps geminate, follicular, more or less coriaceous when mature, 
obliquely ovoid to lanceolate, usually curved and beaked, rarely more 
elongate, often at length quite flattened out, rounded on the 
back, usually 1-3-keeled on each side. Seeds few to many, enveloped 
by an orange-coloured aril, more or less irregularly ellipsoid, deeply 
grooved ventrally ; testa crustaceous, finely sulcate, protruding into 
the copious endosperm.—Shrubs, rarely small trees, usually quite 
glabrous. Leaves opposite, herbaceous to coriaceous; axillary stipules 
distinct, though sometimes small, obtuse; axillary glands small, often 
numerous. Flowers small to middle-sized, sometimes showy, in terminal 
or pseudo-axillary usually paired many-flowered more or less dichoto- 
mous corymbose or umbelliform inflorescences or in few-flowered cymes. 
—Tabernemontana, sect. Ervatamia, A.DC. Prod. viii. 373. 
Species about 30 in tropical Asia, Australia and Polynesia, 1 in Madagascar, 
One species frequently cultivated in the tropics and sometimes naturalised. 
1. E. coronaria, Stapf. A glabrous, much branched shrub; 
branches slender; bark very pale, verrucose with large corky warts. 
Leaves lanceolate to oblong, long-acuminate, acute or acuminate at the 
base, 3-5 in. long, 3-1} in. broad, papery, deep green ; secondary nerves 
7-9 on each side, slender, curved; petiole 24-5 lin. long, slender; 
axillary stipules small. Flowers in 2—10-flowered cymes, rarely solitary, 
showy, fragrant at night, inodorous by day; pedicels slender, 2-10 lin, 
long. Calyx 1-1} lin. long; sepals ovate, obtuse (rarely acute). Corolla- 
tube yellowish or greenish, 8-11 lin. long; lobes ovate-oblong, obtuse, 
about as long as the tube, snow-white except at the yellow base, 
Anthers 1} lin. long. Stigma clavate-oblong; pistil } or } as long as 
the corolla-tube. Follicles oblong with a recurved beak, more or less 
Stipitate, finally opened out flat, up to 2 in. long, with 1-3 obtuse keels 
on each side.— Tabernemontana coronaria, Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 
275; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 72; A.DC. Prod. viii. 373; Wight, Ic. 
Pl. t. 477; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 406; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1064; Hook. 
f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. 646; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. 
u.148. 7. divaricata, R. Br. ex Blume, Bijdr. 1027, not of others. 
NV. coronarium, Jacq. Coll. i, 138, and Ic. t. 52; Bot. Mag. t. 1865. 
Jasminum zeylanicum, J. Burm. Thes. Zeyl. 129, t. 59. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Regent, Scott-Elliot, 3973! 
Indigenous in India; widely cultivated and occasionally naturalised elsewhere. 
There is a long- and a short-styled form in India, the pistil measuring 5-63 lin. and 
23-33 lin. respectively. The first has the anthers in the middle of the corolla-tube, 
the other at } from the base. Both occur in cultivation in a double-flowered form. 
The wild simple short-styled form seems, however, to be confined to the northern 
parts of India. Neriwm divaricatum, Linn. Sp. Pl. i. 209, based on Hermann’s 
Apocynum zeylanicum (Parad, Batav. 40) and supposed to be identical with Nerium 
Neorg hrige Jacq. (R. Brown in Mem. Werner. Soc. i. 72) is Wrightia zeylanica, 
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