Tas. 5226. 
TABERNAXMONTANA GRANDIFLORA. 
Large-flowered Tabernemontana. 
Nat. Ord. APocyNE&.—PENTANDRIA MOoNOGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx quinquepartitus, lobis basi intus glandula auctis, persistens. 
Corolla hypogyna, hypocraterimorpha, fauce nuda; Jimbi quinquepartiti laciniis 
obliquis. Stamina 3, medio corollz tubo inserta, inclusa; anthere sagittate, 
subsessiles. Stylus unus, filiformis ; stigma e basi dilatata bifidum. Sguamule 
hypogynz null. Folliculi 2, oblongi, v. subglobosi, carnosi, pulposi, divaricati 
v. adpressi, abortu szepe solitarii, demum fatiscentes. Semina plurima, intra 
pulpam cellulosam nidulantia, compressiuscula, angustata. Hméryo in axi albu- 
minis carnosi rectus ; cotyledonibus foliaceis ; radicula cylindrica, vaga.—Arbus- 
culze in America et Asia tropica indigene ; foliis oppositis; stipulis interpetiolaribus, 
infra adnatis, apice solutis ; cymis subdichotomis. Endl. 
TABERNEZMONTANA grandiflora ; ramulis dichotomis, foliis ovalibus v. elliptico- 
obovatis basi obtusis apice longe et acute cuspidatis glabris, pedunculis ter- 
minalibus bifurcatis paucifloris, foliis floralibus ovato-acutis sessilibus, lobis 
calycinis amplissimis ellipticis tribus interioribus angustioribus, tubo corolle 
calyce vix duplo longiore, lobis obovatis obtusissimis tubo brevioribus, fol- 
liculis ovoideo-acuminatis. Alph. De Cand. 
TABERNEZMONTANA grandiflora. Jacg. dmer.p. 40. f. 31. Lam. Illustr. t. 170. 
J. 2. Roem. et Schult. v. 4. p. 424. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 1. p. 640. De 
Cand. Prodr. v. 8. p. 368. bar 
A rare shrub in collections, we believe ; native of Carthagena, 
according to Jacquin, its discoverer and first describer, and of — 
Guiana, where it was found by Sir Robert Schomburgk. Our 
living plant was brought from Venezuela, by Mr. Birchill. It 
forms a small evergreen shrub about two to two and a half feet 
high, requires the heat of a stove, and then bears its rather 
copious yellow flowers, which have almost the colour of the yel- 
low Jessamine, but are much larger ; produced in September. — 
Derscr. A small glabrous s/rud, with dichotomous, terete 
branches, the elder ones clothed with thin, brown dark, the 
younger ones greenish. Leaves two to three inches long, oppo- 
site, often unequal, patent or reflexed, shortly petiolate, oblong- 
ovate or subovate, sharply almost pungently acuminate, obtuse 
JANUARY Ist, 1861. 
