Tabernemontana, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ° 21 
considerable antiquity. Every part is full of tenacious, 
white juice, which exudes plentifully on being wounded. 
Trunk crooked, from six to ten feet high. Bark rough. 
Branches numerous, three-forked, swelled towards the 
ends; the height of the whole tree fifteen or twenty feet. 
Leaves crowded about the end of thebranchlets, petioled, 
wedge-lanceolar, acute, entire. Many straight veins run — 
towards the circumference, and are lost in another waved 
vein, which surrounds the leaf within the margins; theyare 
smooth on both sides ; about a foot long and three inches - 
broad. Petioles round, with a small channel on the upper 
side, which ends below in a hollow filled with blackish co- | 
nical glands. Peduncles subterminal, having several co- 
rymbiform racemes, in a verticelled order. Flowers numer- 
ous, succeeding one another for a great length of time ; on 
the outside they are tinged red ; the inside pale yellow be- 
low, and white towards the base of the segments ; diffus- 
ing a pleasing fragrance, chiefly during the night. Calyx 
of five, small, roundish, fleshy leaves, Corolfunnel-shap- 
ed, with a large imbricated border ; divisions obovate. 
Stamens in the bottom of the tube. Filaments short. 
Anthers sagittate-  Follicles pendulous, horizontal, very 
rigid. In thirty-five years I have only met with them 
once, so rarely does this tree ripen its seed. 
TABERNZ MONTANA. 
Contorted. Corol funnel-shaped. Follicles two, ‘re- 
curved. Seed several, immersed in a pulpy aril, and 
rirsomnise attached to the two 1 margins of the follicles. 
1. T. dichotoma. R. 
Subarboreous, dichotomous. Leaves oblong, and li- 
near oblong, with deverging veins, Racemes simple or 
compound, single. or in pairs from the forks, 
A native of ber and Malabar and ‘introduced into 
‘the Botanic Garden at Calcutta from the former place, 
