Taberuccmontana. pentandria monogynia. 25 



This is a large, ramous shrub. I have only found it in 

 the Botanic Garden of the Company at Calcutta, where 

 it flowers durini; the rains. 



Trunk ^hoxi ; branches numerous, two forked; bark ash 

 coloured ; young shoots dotted. Leaves opposite, cross* 

 armed, short-petioled, reclined, oblong, pointed, waved, 

 pale green, but smooth on both sides ; from 4 to 8 inches 

 long and two or three broad. Peduncles from the divisi- 

 ons of the branchlets, solitary, few-flowered. Flowers 

 pure white, fragrant. Calyx five-leaved, leaflets cordate, 

 smooth, falling. Corol ; tube a little gibbous above the 

 middle, and there the stamens are lodged ; divisions oi the 

 border curled. Germs two, each one-celled, containing 

 four vertical rows of ovula, two on each side, attached to 

 the inner elevated margins of the cell. Follicles oblong, 

 three-six-seeded. Seeds surrounded with their proper 

 pulpy arils, &c. &c. as in T. Coronaria. 



I never saw this species with double flowers, nor is it 

 so ornamental as even the single flowered. T. Coronaria. 

 To distinguish it I'rom that species, attend to the calyx, 

 and follicles chiefly, the leaves being in this also oppo- 

 site, made me change the Linnaean specific name atterni- 

 folia, for crispa on account of its curled petals. 



7\ corymbosa. R. 



Leaves petioled, oblong. Corymbs terminal, ample, de- 

 compound, all the primary divisions dichotomous. An' 

 thers inclosed. 



A native of the Moluccas. 



T. parviflora. R. 



Shrubby, dichotomous. Leaves broad-lanceolate, ta- 

 per, obtuse pointed. Peduncles in pairs at the forks, few- 

 flowered. The five segments of the calyx ensiform. 



This small shrub, was sent from Sumatra to the Bota- 



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