Tar. 5779. 
PLUMERIA LUTEA. 
Yellow-flowered Plumeria. 
Nat. Ord. Arocynacea.—PENTANDRIA Monogynia. 
Gen. Char. Calyx apice 5-lobus, lobis rotundatis, rarissime integer. Corolla 
tubus gracilis, rectus v. incurvus, fauce exappendiculata, lobis 5 dex- 
trorsum convolutis. Stamina 5, basi corolle inserta, filamentis brevis- 
simis, anthere basi sepe dilatate, apice obtusiuscule. Ovaria 2, disco 
immersa ; stylus 1, stigmate oblongo apice 2-fido, ovula «, suture ven- 
» trali affixa. Folliculi 2, polyspermi, sutura ventrali dehiscentes, ex- 
terne carnosuli. Semina oblonga, compressa, hinc membranaceo-alata, 
hilo elongato, ala laciniata, albumine 0; cotyledones ampla.—Arbuscule 
plereque Americane, ramis crassis cicatrisatis. Folia alterna, ampla ; 
— flores ampli in cymas terminales corymbosas dispositi, speciosi, sepe fra- 
grantes, A. DC. 
Plumeria lutea; foliis oblongo-obovatis v. elongato-obovatis acutis in peti- 
olum angustatis glabris, cyma terminali umbellata multiflora folio sub- 
equali, calycis lobis truncatis, corolle lobis obovatis pallide roseis disco 
aureis tubo fere recto triplo longioribus, folliculis rectis elongatis 
utrinque obtusis. 
P. lutea, Ruiz and Pavon, Fl. Per. v. 2, p- 21, t. 142. Alph. DC. Prod. v. 8, 
p. 391. 
For the beautiful plant here figured the Royal Gardens 
are indebted to Mr. Linden of Brussels, from whom it was 
received a good many years ago. It has now grown to be a 
fine branching plant six to seven feet high, flowering 
copiously in June in the Palm House, where it proves a 
most attractive feature. The original describers of the plant, 
Ruiz and Pavon, seem to have known it in a cultivated state 
only; they say it occurs in the gardens of Peru, flowering 
from January to March, and is called by the natives “ Ccar- 
huas Suche, id est, Suche amarillo.” 
Drscr. A small branching glabrous tree, ten to twenty 
feet high. Branches and branchlets stout, green, scarred. 
Leaves crowded at the ends of the branches, spreading, eight 
to eighteen inches long, narrowly oblong-obovate, tapering 
JUNE Ist, 1869. 
