Tan, 7222, 
ALLAMANDA vionacma. 
Native of Brazil. 
Nat. Ord. ApocyNace®.—Tribe Carisse#. 
Genus AttaMaNnpa, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. 690.) 
ALLAMANDA violacea; frutex erectus v. subscandens, ramis pubescenti-tomen- 
tosis, foliis 3-5-nis verticillatis sessilibus oblongis obovato-oblongisve 
cuspidato-acuminatis supra puberulis subtus tomentosis, nervis subtus 
divergentibus, floribus axillaribus et in cymas tomentosas paucifloras 
dispositis, calycis segmentis exterioribus oblongis interioribus lanceolatis 
acuminatis pubescentibus, corolla roseo-v. coeruléo-purpurea ampla. 
A. violacea, Gardn. in Field. Sert. Plant. t. 41; J. Mueller in Mart. Fl. Bras, 
vol. vi. pars i. p. 15; The Garden, 1890, p. 224, t. 743. 
A. Blanchetii, A. DC. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 319; J. Mueller lic. p.11. 
Notwithstanding some differences, I am disposed to 
regard the plant here figured as belonging to the species 
named above, which is but indifferently figured in Field- 
ing’s Sertum from specimens collected by Gardner in 
Brazil. The calyx-segments are represented in that work 
as linear-lanceolate, and equal, whereas in the original 
specimens of Gardner in the Kew Herbarium, the outer are 
much larger and broader than the lanceolate interior, as 
‘ndeed is usual in the genus. The leaves in Gardner’s 
Ceara specimens are all in whorls of about five (never 
more), but in those from Piauhy the upper are opposite. 
In the Kew plant they are opposite, but whorled in young 
shoots. Lastly, the flowers, which are described by Gardner 
as of a rich violet (‘‘ not unlike Glowwma speciosa ”), are In 
his specimens from Crato said to be of a beautiful purple. 
The A. Blanchetii of Alph. De Candolle from the Sierra 
Jacobina in the province of Bahia, appears to be a stunted 
form, with closely set recurved leaves one and a half inches 
long, and a smaller flower; the specimens of it in the Kew 
Herbarium from Blanchet are very indifferent. Those of 
Moricand from the same locality are larger and better. 
Tt may be a question whether the name of Blanchet or 
violacea should be retained for this species, both haying 
been published in the same year, 1849. I have selected 
June Ist, 1890. 
