Tas. 4484. 
TABERNAEMONTANA LonGIFLora. 
Long-flowered Tabernemontana. 
Nat. Ord. Apocynra#.—PENTANDRIA MoNoGyYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-partitus (in 7. coronaria 5-fidus) ; lobis eestivatione quin- 
cunciali, 2 exterioribus, glandulis linearibus, 4-7, basi cujusque lobi vel paulo 
supra basim adfixis, verticillatis. Corolla hypocraterimorpha, ¢ubo inferne, 
medio vel superne inflato seepius medio angustiore, exappendiculato, fauce nuda, 
raro glandulosi; lodis obtusis, wstivatione marginibus dextrorsum conyolutis 
apiceque replicatis. Stamina parte inflata tubi corolle inserta; filamentis bre- 
vissimis aut nullis, antheris seepius sagittatis longe acuminatis, rarius linearibus, 
plerumque inclusis, Nectarium nullum. Ovaria 2, adpressa, glabra. Stylus 
unicus, basi interdum prope ovaria duplex, glaber. Stigma antheris proximum, 
basi plerumque annulatum, medio cylindraceum vel tuberculis auctum, apice 
bilobum (an raro simplex?) Fructus 2, vel abortu solitarii, lineari-oblongi, ob- 
longi vel subglobosi, plus minus carnosi, pulposi, divaricati, nervis longitudinali- 
bus paucis. Ovula «©, amphitropa. Semixa pauca vel plurima, intra pulpam 
cellulosam nidulantia, quasi arillo colorato tecta?, obovoidea, pressione mutua 
angulata; ilo depresso sulcato longitudinali; ¢esfa longitudinaliter striata ; 
albumine carnoso ; cotyledonibus foliaceis apice curvatis, radiculam rectam eequan- 
tibus, hilo parallelis, radicula supera, cylindrica.—Arbores ve? frutices intertro- 
picales: ramis sepius dichotomis; foliis oppositis, altero sepe minore, integris, 
plerumque glabris, petiolis brevibus in stipulas falsas intrapetiolares basi expansis 
vel connatis, glandulis preterea axillaribus et nunc lateralibus; cymis axillaribus, 
plerumque geminis apice ramulorum ; floribus albis vel luteis. Alph. DC. 
Tawernamontana longiflora; glabra, foliis oblongo-ellipticis abrupte acuminatis 
basi acutis, petiolis basi dilatatis, pedunculis laxe, subtrifloris, calycis lobis 
ovali-oblongis, corollee tubo longissimo paullo infra medium ventricoso con- 
torto et staminifero. Benth. 
TaBeRN&MONTANA longiflora. Benth. in Niger Flora, p. 447. 
A new and valuable acquisition to our stoves, recently im- 
ported by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., Exeter Nursery, 
from Sierra Leone, through Mr. Whitfield. The shrub has 
close-placed, ample, dark green foliage, | and remarkably large 
white or pale cream-coloured flowers, diffusing a delicious aromatic 
fragrance, resembling that of cloves. Dr. Vogel, who also found 
the plant at Sierra Leone (as did Heudelot at Senegambia), 
speaks of this shrub as very handsome, with the aspect of a 
DECEMBER Ist, 1849. 
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