Taberncemonfana. 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 hij^h. Bark rou^h. 

 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, 

 w^edge-lanceolar, acute, entire. Many straight veins run 

 towards the circumference, and are lost in another waved 

 vein, which surrounds the loaf within the margins ; they are 

 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. Corol funnel-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. 



TABERNjEMONTANA. 

 Contorted. Corol funnel-shaped. Follicles two, re- 

 curved. Seeds several, immersed in a pulpy aril, and 

 alternately attached to the two margins of the follicles. 



1. T. dicholoma. R. 



Subarboreous, dichotomous. Leaves oblong, and li- 

 near oblong, with de verging veins. Racemes simple or 

 compound, single, or in pairs from the forks. 



A native of Ceylon and Malabar and introduced into 

 the Botanic Garden at Calcutta from the former place, by 



