4 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nerium. 
Embryo inverse ; cotyledons triangularly convolute. Ra- 
dicle cylindric, superior (pointing from the coma to the 
apex of the follicle.) The whole almost exactly as in 
Gaertner’s Nerium Zeylanicum, 2. p. 172 t, 117. 
3. N. dinctorum, R. Stic. eas 
_ Arboreous. Leaves opposite, ovate-oblong. Panicles 
terminal. Follicles pendulous, very long, united at the © 
apex. i igtegy 
Nerium indicum, &c. Burm. Zeyl. 167. t.'77 
Telinga. Chite-ancalloo. ; 
A middling-sized tree, agreeing perfectly in its botani- 
cal character with Nerium of the Linnean sexual system, 
and from the quality of its leaves I have called it (Neri- 
um) tinctorium. Dyer’s rose bay, for to me it seems a 
new species ; at least itis not taken notice of by Linne« 
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us, nor by his son in his last Botanical publication, ‘the - 
Supplementum Plantarum published in 1781. It comes 
-Conessi bark ofour Materia Medica, Cadaga-pala of the 
Hortus Malabaricus, Pala Cadija of the Telingas. They 
are both natives of the lower region of those mountains 
which bound the Rajamundry Circaron the north side, and 
are so much alike in most respects, (the Nectarium ex- 
cepted) that without a tolerable knowledge of both, the 
one may be mistaken for the other ; and I have no doubt 
but the bark of the Nerium may have been gathered and 
sold for Conessi bark to which I attribute the disrepute 
that has fallen upon Conessi bark in Europe ; for with the 
natives of most parts of India it is deemed a specific in 
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most complaints of the bowels. And I am inclined to : 
think it deserves a better name than it has hitherto ac« 
quired amongst Europeans, one 
Trunk very irregular in shape, when very old it is 
from one and a half to two feet in diameter, but when of 
that size, it is full of large, rotten cayities ; its height to 
