Nerium. penta.ndria monogynia. 5 



the branches when lar^e, is from ten to fifteen feet; the 

 bark of the old wood is scabrous, of the young pretty 

 smooth, and ash-coloured. Wood remarkably white, 

 close-<?rained, very beautiful coming nearer to Ivory in 

 appearance than any other I know. i?r«/ic/tes irregular- 

 ly disposed, beini^ bent in various directions ; small 

 branches opposite. Leaves numerous, opposite, short- 

 petioled, oval-pointed, pretty smooth, entire, pale green; 

 when full «;rown from six to ten inches long, and from 

 three to four broad. Stipules none. Flowers about an 

 inch and a half in diameter, when fully expanded per- 

 fectly white, fragrant, disposed on lax globular panicles 

 at the extremities of the branches. Bractes a small oval 

 one below each sub-division of the panicle. Calyx di- 

 vided into five equal semi-orbicular, permanent segments. 

 Carol one-petalled. Tube short, somewhat gibbous. 

 Border large, divided into five, oblique, linear-oblong, 

 spread insi segments. Nectarhim, many ramous, white fi- 

 laments crowning the mouth of the tube of the corol, (no 

 nectary in the Conessi bark tree.) Filaments five, very 

 short, ri;L;id, inserted just within the mouth of the tube, 

 and within the nectarium. Anthers arrow-shaped, rigid, 

 united to one another laterally, forming a very firm, co- 

 nical cover for the stigma, their lower parts inwardly are 

 covered ^^ith tine white hairs. Germ two, seemingly 

 united. -Style the lentrth of the tube. Stigma double, co- 

 vered with transparent gluten, by which it adheres to the 

 inside of the anthers. Follicles two, very long, slender, 

 pendul()us, united at both ends singly, they are from 

 twelve to twenty inches long; and about as thick as a 

 common pencil. Seeds numerous, long, slender, crown- 

 ed with down, like the seed of the common thistle. Em- 

 bryo inverse, without peri.sperm, and the cotyledons roll- 

 ed up in a compound manner between involute and con- 

 volute. 



06.9. This tree as 1 o'oserved before, is a native of the 



