76 ON SOUTH-AMERICAN APOCYNACEJE. 
seated above the middle of the tube, their anthers free, biaristate at the base, their 
acuminate summits nearly reaching the mouth; disk of 5 roundish membranaceous 
lobes, connate below the margin, 4 the length of 2 free obovate ovaries; style shortly 
bifid at the base, simple above; clavuncle thickish, submembranaceously expanded at its 
base; 2 apical slender stigmata; 2 follicles globosely oblong, divaricately reflexed, with 
a recurved beak at the apex, 13 in. long, 10 lines broad, with numerous seeds, as in the 
other species, half-immersed in fleshy funicles. 
This fine species bears all the characters of a Stemmadenia, and is extremely different 
from a true Tabernemontana. 
5. STEMMADENIA INSIGNIS, nob.: Tabernemontana laurifolia, Schott, MS. (non Linn. nec Ker). Arbo- 
rescens, ramulis teretibus, pallidis, glabris, striolatis: foliis oppositis, oblongis, utrinque acutis, 
chartaceis, supra leete viridibus, opacis, sub lente minute granulosis, nervis plurimis, tenuibus, sub- 
patenter divaricatis, semiimmersis, subtus pallidioribus, costa nervisque flavidis subprominulis; 
petiolis subtenuibus, limbo 10plo brevioribus: paniculis in ramulis novellis terminalibus, spicati- 
floris ; pedicellis imo et apice bracteolatis, bracteis ovatis, sessilibus; sepalis 5, majusculis, oblongis, 
subpetaloideis, valde imbricatis, parallele nervosis, intus ad basin squamulis numerosissimis creber- 
rimis munitis; corolle tubo elongato cylindrico, supra medium subinfundibuliformi; limbi seg- 
mentis inzquilateris, oblique rotundatis, valde expansis, in sestivatione sinistrorsum convolutis; ` 
staminibus paullo infra medium tubi insertis, acuminatis, basi breviter 2-lobatis, subsessilibus ; 
disco precedentium, ovariis 2 acute ovatis cireumdato ; stylo, clavuncula et stigmatibus generis. In 
Mexico: v. s. in hb. Mus. Brit. in Merida cult. (Schott 430). 
A handsome species, near the preceding, cultivated in Merida under the name of 
“laurel,” Its branchlets are rather stout, with axils about 4 in. apart; the leaves are 
3153 in. long, 13-23 in. broad, on petioles 4-6 lines long; peduncle less than 1 in. 
long; pedicels 9 lines long; bracts ronndish oblong, 2-3 lines long; unequal sepals 
6-8 lines long, 2-3 lines broad; tube of corolla 1£ in. long, narrower at the base for the 
length of 9 lines, somewhat funnel-shaped above, 1 in. broad in the mouth, 3 in. broad 
at the expanded, border; segments 1 in. long, 2 in. broad. "The shape and size of the 
follicles are not given; but the seeds seem partially invested with a fleshy covering, as 
the birds are said to devour them greedily. 
A figure of this species, and an analysis of its flower, are exhibited in Plate X. B. 
6. STEMMADENIA GALEOTTIANA, nob.: Odontostigma Galeottianum, Rich. in Sagra, Hist. Cub. xi. 868, 
tab. 56; Walp. Ann. v. 478. Cuba, circ. Havana in sylvis: non vidi. 
A tall tree, with slender dichotomous branchlets; opposite leaves oblong, acute at the 
base, summits acuminate, membranaceous, entire, with divergent nerves, 4l in. long, 
2 in. broad, on petioles 4 lines long; panicle terminal in the dichotomy of the branchlets, 
bearing 3-6 large, handsome, yellow, odoriferous flowers; peduncle 6 lines long; pedicels 
3 lines long; sepals 5, obtusely oblong, unequal in breadth, membranaceous, laxly im- 
bricate, with a smaller oval bract at the base, and furnished inside with very numerous 
lanceolate scales in 2 series; corolla broadish-tubular, 2 in. long, narrower within the 
calyx, the border-segments obliquely inequilateral, roundish, horizontally expanded, 
1 in. long and broad, sinistrorsely convolute in sestivation; stamens acute, obtusely 
