22 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Tabernemontana. 
the Rev. Dr. John; where it flowers during the - 
part of the year, but chiefly during the rains. 
Trunk short. 
Branches numerous ; spreading much in every direction; 
dichotomous, the old ones with smooth olive coloured 
bark ; the young ones green, round, and very smooth. 
Leaves opposite, petioled, oblong,and linear-oblong, entire, 
rather obtuse, of a firm texture, and polished on beth 
sides ; veins parallel, diverging from the rib; length from 
four to eight inches and from one to two broad. -Petioles 
short, and united ina cup like a stipulary ring which com- 
pletely embraces the branchlets, All these parts very re-. 
sinous. Racemes simple or compound ; single or in pairs, 
in the extreme divisions of the branchlets ; often as long 
as the leaves, polished, bright green, Flowers rather 
remote, long-pedicelled, large, white, scarcely fragrant. . 
bractes scarcely any. Calyx five-parted ; divisions 
short, semilunar, resinous, Coral ; tube long, gibbous 
near the base, much contracted above the stamina ; 
Border of five, contorted, faleate segments, Filaments 
short, inserted into the tube of the corol near the mid- 
dle. Anthers sagittate. Germs two, closely united; 
single, one-celled ; ovula numerous, attached toa two- 
lobed receptacle, on the inner side of the cell, Style 
two-thirds shorter than the tube of the corol, two-lobed. 
Stigma large, with a tapering bifidapex. Follicles, it 
is rare to find more than one of the two come to ma- 
turity, they are recurved with the back considerably 
concave; and very gibbous on the opposite side, where 
an elevated rib runs along each side of the suture; ob. 
tusely pointed, pretty smooth; when ripe of a bright orange 
colour, four or five inches long, and nearly two in dia- 
meter where thickest. Seeds numerous, of an irregular, 
cuneate-oblong shape, with a deep longitudinal groove 
on one side; each enveloped in its own proper, scarlet, 
pulpy aril and inserted along the side of the two margins 
