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9 lines broad, enclosing several seeds attached to the sutural margins by reddish pulp- 
like funicles, in which they are half-imbedded. 
A drawing of this species, and an analysis of its flower and fruit, are shown in 
Plate VII. a. 
2. TABERNJEMONTANA LANCEOLATA, Linn. in Hort. Cliff. (1737) p. 76 (excl. syn.) ; Sp. Plant. (1753) 
p. 210 (excl. syn.) ; Jacq. Amer. (1763) p. 38, tab. 175. fig. 13 (flos), excl. syn.; Lam. Illust. 
tab. 170 (folium). In Antilles: v. s. plantam archetyp. in herb. Cliffort. Mus. Brit. ex Cuba 
(C. Wright 2948, in flore et fructu). 
This species has been confounded with the preceding from the time of Linneus down- 
wards; but the two plants differ obviously in the shape and size of the leaves, their 
venation, their inflorescence, and in their fruit. Wright's specimen perfectly accords 
with Linneus's plant, so that no doubt can exist on the subject. This shows what little 
attention was paid by Linneus, in his earlier days, to the exact definition of any species, 
as in the present case he mixed in one three very different species—(1) citrifolia, 
(2) lanceolata, (3) alternifolia (a Malay plant described by Rheede). Lamarck gives the 
leaf of this species in his tab. 170; but the floral parts and seeds are copied from 
Plumier’s * Genera.” 
This is a small tree 8 feet high, with smooth branchlets, having their axils 14 in. 
apart; the leaves are glabrous, subspathulately lanceolate, with a short obtuse acumen, 
flat, entire, pale green above, sulcated along the midrib, with about 14 pairs of patent 
immersed nerves suddenly conjoined within the margin, a little paler beneath, opake 
yellowish, with prominent midrib and very fine straw-coloured nerves, the transversely 
reticulated veins being immersed, 3-4 in. long, 1-13 in. broad, on semiterete, broadly 
channelled petioles 2-4 lines long; a lateral panicle, on a peduncle 1 in. long, subdivided 
above into 2 branchlets 9 lines long, bearing alternate flowers on bracteolated pedicels 
3 lines long; sepals small, each with an inner multidentate scale; tube of corolla 10 lines 
long, slender in the middle, ventricose below the mouth, a little swollen at the base, 
segments 5 lines long, obliquely oblong, sinistrorsely convoluted; stamens fixed in the 
constriction of the tube, anthers very slender, bluish, half-exserted; disk adnate, sub- 
5-lobed in the margin, shorter than the 2 pointed oblong ovaries; follicles 2, often 
solitary by abortion, oblong ovate, compressed, with a sharp recurved point at the 
apex, rounded along the sutural margin, 1 in. long, 6 lines broad; seeds not very nume- 
rous, oval, striated on the dorsal face, deeply channelled on the ventral face, where they 
are attached to the fleshy funicle ; they are 3 lines long, 2 lines broad. 
A drawing of this species, and an analysis of its flower and fruit, are seen in 
Plate VII. B. 
3. TABERNEMONTANA NERIIFOLIA, Vahl, Ecl. ii. 21; DC. Prodr. viii. 367. In Porto Rico et Venezuela : 
v. s. in hb. Mus. Brit. Cumancoa et Maracaibo (Moritz 357, Sagot 391). 
The very lanceolate leaves, slightly heterophyllous, are green above, with an opake 
granulated surface, with about 20 pairs of short patent nerves, conjoined near the 
margin, semi-immersed, and without veins, they are ochreously pallid beneath, opake, 
minutely corrugulated, with slightly prominulent nerves and are veinless; they are 
