10 PENTENDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nerium. 



parts of the Coast, bark ash-coloured with scabrous 

 specks. 



Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oval, waved, smooth, 

 shiniui^. Corymbs terminal, two-forked. Bractes nar- 

 row-lanceolate> revolutc. Flowers large, pretty numer- 

 ous. Calyx five-cleft ; divisions linear, w aved, revolute, 

 coloured, very much like the bractes. Corol ; tube con- 

 tracted at the middle, each of the segments of the border 

 endin^^ in a large linear filament, as in Echites caudala. 

 Nectary crowning the mouth of the tube as in the famil^ 

 i4wf/iers within the tube, and ending in filaments as in the 

 genus. Germs two. Style length of the tube, white, 

 rugose as if it were composed of small air bladders. 



I know of no u.se any part of this plant is put to. If 

 Burman's Echites caudata is the same, the nectary, and 

 threads to the anthers, arc omitted in his figure, Flora In- 

 dica Table 26. Is allied to De Candoll's Strophanthus. 



9. IV. grandiflorum, R. 



Shrubby, twining. Leaves oblong, polished. Flowers ter- 

 minal. Nectaries bifid. Follicles three-sided horizontal. 



A native of the Peninsula of India. In the botanic 

 garden at Calcutta it is in flower great part of the year 

 though the seeds do not often come to maturity. 



Stem stout, and woody. Bark smooth, greenish ash co- 

 lour. Branches twining up and over trees of very consi- 

 derable size,every part abundantly lactescent when wound- 

 ed. Leaves opposite, short petioled, oblong, entire, obtu- 

 se-pointed, polished on both sides; underneath minutely re- 

 ticulated, about three inches long, by one and a half broad. 

 Flowers terminal, from one to many, forming a dichoto- 

 mous raceme with one in the fork, very large, pale pink. 

 Bractes conically-lanceolate, opposite, caducous. Calyx 

 five-leaved. Leaflets oval-lanceolate, with ample, thin 

 curled margins. Corol campanulate, half five-cleft. Nec- 

 taries five, not alternate with, but attached to the tube of 



