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 Nerium odorum, y. Carneum. 



Class and Order. 



PENTANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 



Contorta. Folliculi 2, erecti. Semina extremitate supe- 

 Viori comosa. Cor. hypocrateriformis : faux coronata squamif 

 quinque, divisis. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Nerium odorum ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis ternis, foliolis 

 calycinis erectis, nectariis multipartitis : laciniis filifor- 

 mibus. Hort. Kew. ed, I. 2. p. 67. Synonyma supra, 

 No. 1799 petenda. 



Carneum ; Jloribus carneis, nectariis ad dimidium fere 

 integris superne laceris : segmentis Jiliformibus foliis 

 lineari-lanceolatis. 



Nerium flore carneo. Weinm. Phyt. v. 4. t. 755. ? 



Belutta-Areli Hort. Malab. 9. p. 3. t. 2 ? 



The more we consider the varieties of Nerium oleander 

 and odorum, the more difficulty we find in distinguishing the 

 species, and we are inclined to think that after all perhaps 

 Linnaeus was right in considering these plants as mere varie- 

 ties. Lamarck supposed that he found a specific distinction 

 in the arista of the anther, being bearded in the latter and 

 smooth in the former, in addition to the difference in the 

 corona or nectarium pointed out by Solander, in the first 

 edition of Aiton's Hortus Kewensis ; but we do not find that 

 this distinction holds good, the termination of the anther being 

 hairy in both : and if the difference of the corona or nectarium 

 is sufficient to establish a specific distinction, our plant may 

 be considered as distinct from both, being more unlike in this 



respect 



