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Nerium. - - PENTENDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Kalli-pal-valli. Rheed. Mal. 9. €. 11. 
Apocynum reticulatum. B. H. 
Teling. Adivi pala-tiga. — 
Hind. Karunta. 2. 
_ A large twining shrub, a native of hedges, thickets: &e. 
Flowering time the rainy season, abounds with milky 
juice. a 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, obovate, or oblong,en- - 
tire, smooth, very pale underneath ; with numerous, small, 
reticulated veins running through every part, from three 
to six inches long. Cymes axillary, many times shorter 
than the leaves, and short peduncled, many-flowered. 
Flowers small, yellow. Calyx five-parted; division 
short, ovate. Coral: tube very short, gibbous ; divisions 
of the border linear-lanceolate. Nectary five wedge-form- 
ed scales, inserted on, or rather in the mouth of the tube. 
Stamens within the tube, below the nectarial scales. 
Style short. Stigma peltate, five sided. Follicles lance- 
olate, horizontal, about three inches long. 
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7. N. chinensis, Hunter. 
_Shrubby, with erect, dichotomous branches. Leaves 
sub-sessile, ovate-lanceolate, smooth. Peduncles terminal » 
becoming lateral, or in the forks of the branches, fow-Hovge 
ered Segments of the corol narrow, and end ensiform, 
ina in the base of the tube. how 
A native of China. In one garden on Pulo-penang 
Dr. Hunter found it in blossom i in July : 
I can find no nectarial crown on the tube of the corol, 
nee I suspect it to be an Echites. 
8. N. caudatum, R. 
Shrubby, scandent. Leaves oblong, smooth. C) ynes ter- 
‘minal. Segment of the corol ending in long, filiform poin ts. 
_ A large climbing shrub, a native. of the mountain 
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