Nerium. pentendria monogynia. 9 



Kalli-pal-valli. Rheed. Mai 9. t. 11. 



Apocyimm reticulatum. B. 11. 



Teling. Adivi pala-tiga. 



Hind. Karwnta. 



A large twining shrub, a native of hedges, thickets, &c. 

 Flowering time the rainy season, abounds with milky 

 juice. 



Leaves opposite, short-petioled, obovate, or oblong, en- 

 tire, smooth, very pale underneath ; with numerous, small, 

 reticulated veins running through every part, from three 

 to six inches long. Cymes axillary, many times shorter 

 than the leaves, and short peduncled, many-flowered. 

 Flowers small, yellow. Calyx five-parted; division 

 short, ovate. Corol ; tube very short, gibbous ; divisions 

 of the border linear-lanceolate. Nectary five wedge-form- 

 ed scales, inserted on, or rather in the mouth of the tube. 

 Stamens within the tube, below the nectarial scales. 

 Style short. Stigma peltate, five sided. Follicles lance- 

 olate, horizontal, about three inches long. 



7. N. chinensis, Hunter, 



Shrubby, with erect, dichotomous branches. Leaves 

 sub-sessile, ovate-lanceolate, smooth. Peduncles terminal, 

 becoming lateral, or in the forks of the branches, few-flow- 

 ered. Segments of the corol narrow, and end ensiform. 

 Stamina in the base of the tube- 



A native of China. In one garden on Pulo-penang 

 Dr. Hunter found it in blossom in July. 



I can find no nectarial crown on the tube of the corol, 

 hence I suspect it to be an Echites. ^ 



8. N. caudatum, R. 



Shrubby, scandent. Leaves oblong, smooth. Cymes ieX" 



mmdi\. Segment oi ihe corol ending in long, filiform points. 



A large climbing shmb, a native of the mountainous 



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