24 TENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. TdbertKBmontana . 



Trunk triflingr, but numerous, two forked branches, 

 with a pretty smooth light ash-coloured bark. The whole 

 shrub is abou^ 6 or 8 feet high. Leaves opposite, short- 

 petioled, spreading, lanceolar, smooth, shining, deep 

 green; margins waved a little, with elevations above the 

 veins ; four or six inches long. Stipules within the leaves, 

 resinous as in most species of Gardenia. Peduncles ge- 

 nerally solitary, from the divisions of the branchlets, one 

 or two inches long, from one to eight flowered. Flowers 

 pure white, and delightfully fragrant during the night. 

 Calyx five toothed. Corol funnel shaped; tube contract- 

 ed towards the mouth, and crowned with small yellow 

 glands, (which brings it in this respect near to Nerium ;) 

 feorrfer five-parted ; divisions obliquely ovate, and curled 

 at, the margins. Stamens rather below the middle of the 

 tube. Germs two. Style short. Stigma single, headed with 

 its slender apex, bifid. Follicles spreading ; and recurv- 

 ed singly, from one to three inches long. Seeds three to 

 six, irregularly oblong, dark brown, and striated ; each 

 enclosed in its own proper, fleshy, deep red pulpy aril. 

 Perisperm conform to the seed ; with the cordate cotyle- 

 dons lodged in its thick end, and the long, cylindric, 

 straight radicle, directed to the small end. 



Note. This pulp seems fit for yielding a very beautiful 

 colour. The double flowered variety is much more com- 

 mon than the single and is more beautiful ; few shrubs 

 surpassing it. 



3. T. Crispa. R. 



Shrubby, dichotomous. Leaves oblong, pointed, waved, 

 smooth. Peduncles from the divisions of the branches, 

 three or four flowered. Calyx five-leaved. Follicles three 

 or four seeded. 



4. T. alternifolia. Willd. 4. 1246. 

 Curutu-pala. Rheed. mal. 1. P. 83. t. 46. 



