a PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nerium. 
peduncled.—Corol, mouth of the tube contracted, and shut 
with hair.— Nectarial corpuscles as in the family. 
NERIUM, Schreb. gen. N, 420. 
Corol funnel-shaped ; ‘wiouth® of the tube variously 
crowned. Germ two-celled ; cells many-seeded, epitach 
ment intetior. Follicles two. Seeds many, comose. - 
bryo inverse, (sub-convolute, or expanded.) 
4. N.odorum, Willd. i. 1235. 
Leaves linear-lanceolate, tern. Segments of the calyx 
erect. Nectaries many-cleft, divisions filiform. 
Sung. Karavira, vide Asiat. Researches, iv. 265. 
Beng. Kurubee, Rukta Kurubee (the red variety), 
Sweta Kurubee (the white variety), Pudma Kurubee the 
double variety). 
Hind. Lall-Karpud, (the single rés6-colounane 
or shwet Karpud (single white), Padmu-Karpud (the 
double variety.) 
Belutta-areli, Rheed. Mal. ix. ¢. 2. 
Tsjovanna-areli, Rheed. Mal. ix. t. 1. 
Common in gardens in overy parle of agin, and in flow~ 
er the whole emt, | ae 
2.N. coccincéum, R. ; 
_Arboreous. Leaves siieebaeil, ovate-oblong, entire, 
apex alternate. Flowers terminal, three or four : ; necta- 
rium acetabuliform. Follicles linear, rough. 
_ Pullum, the vernacular name in Silhet. 
A native of the eastern frontier of Bengal, beyond the 
mouth of the Megna, from thence introduced by R. K- 
Dick, Esq. into the botanic garden at Calcutta, where it 
_ Blossoms in April. In its native soil it grows to bea large 
