

over each other before they open, when open broad, fome- 

 what truncated, one fide rounded, the other terminating in a 

 fhort point ; at the bafe of the divifions the yellow colour on 

 the infide of the flower becomes nearly white, forming fo many 

 fpots ; the mouth of the tube is perfectly clofed with villi 

 converging to a point, and which ferve as a covering or fpecies 

 of thatch to five long, pointed, rigid, arrow-fhaped antherze 

 beneath them, which fit on the top of fo many ridges, pro- 

 jecting from the infide of the tube, and which juft beneath 

 the antherse are villous ; germen nearly round, with a flight 

 ridge on each fide of it, furrounded at its bafe by a greenifh 

 glandular fubftance ; ftyle filiform, the length of the tube of 

 the corolla, enlarging as it comes near to the fligma ; ftigma 

 divifible into three diftintl parts, the lowermoft of a yellowifh 

 hue, in the form of a rim turning downwards, the middle of 

 a dark green colour, fecreting honey in confiderable quantity ; 

 the fumtnit, which perhaps is the true ftigma, a fhort conical 

 point, rifing from the centre of the middle part, bifid at top, 

 with a furrow running down each fide of it ; feed-veffels, 

 according to the figure in Aublet, are very large and 

 prickly. 



Of this genus, which has a confiderable affinity with that 

 of Vinca and Plumeriti, only one fpecies is defcribed in 

 LiNNiEus's works, and this is ufually increafed by cuttings. 



