Nerium. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 5 
the branches when large, is from ten to fifteen feet ; the 
bark of the old wood is scarbous, of the young pretty 
smooth, and ash-coloured. Wood remarkably white, 
_ close-grained, very beautiful, coming nearer to Ivory in 
- appearance than any other Iknow. Branches irregular- 
ly disposed, being bent in various directions; small 
branches opposite. Leaves numerous, opposite, short- 
petioled, oval-pointed, pretty smooth, entire, pale green ; 
when full grown from six to ten inches long, and from 
three to four broad. Stipules none. Flowers about an 
inch and a half in diameter, when fully expanded per- 
. fectly white, fragrant, disposed on lax globular panicles 
at the extremities of the branches. Bractes a small oval 
one below each sub-divisions of the panicle. Calyx di- 
vided into five equal semi-orbicular, permanent segments. 
Corol one-petalled. | Tube short, somewhat gibbous. 
Ks Border large, dlivided into five, oblique, linear-oblong, — 
‘arium many ramous, white fi- 
laments crowning the mouth of the tube of the corol, (no 
nectary in the Conessi bark tree). Filaments five, very 
short, rigid, inserted just within the mouth of the tube, 
and within the nectarium. Anthers arrow-shaped, rigid. 
united to one another laterally, forming a very firm, co- 
nical cover for the stigma, their lower parts inwardly are 
covered with fine white hairs. Germ two, seemingly 
united. Style the length of the tube. Stigma, double, co- 
vered with transparent gluten, by which it adheres to the 
inside of the anthers. Folliclestwo, very long, slender, 
pendulous, united at both ends singly, they are from 
_twelve to twenty inches long ; and about as thick asa 
common pencil. Seeds numerous, long, slender, crown. 
ed with down, like the seed of the common thistle. Em- 
bryo inverse, without perisperm, and the cotyledons roll- 
ed up in a compound manner. between involute and con 
a = 
- Obs. This tree as I observed before, is a native o Khe 
