4 PENTANDRIA MONCGYNIA. Nerium. 



Embryo inverse ; cotyledons triangularly convolute. Ra- 

 dicle c}lindric. superior (pointing from the coma to the 

 apex of the follicle.) The whole almost exactly as in 

 Gtsrtners Nerium Zeylanicum, 2. p. 172. f. 117. 



3 N. tinctorum. R. 



Arboreous. Ze«i'es opposite, ovate-oblong. Panicles 

 terminal. Follicles pendulous, very long, united at the 

 apex. 



Nerium indicum, &c. Biirm. Zeijl. 167. t. 77. 



Telinga. Chite-ancalloo. 



A middling-sized tree, agreeing perfectly in its botani- 

 cal character \vith Nerium of the Linncean sexual system, 

 and from the quality of its leaves I have called it {Neri- 

 um) tinctorum, Dyer's rose bay, for to n.e it seems a 

 new species ; at least it is not taken notice of by Linnce- 

 us, nor by his son in his last Botanical puldication, the 

 Suppkmeiifum Plantarmn published in 1781. It comes 

 nearest Nerium antidys; nterinm, the tree which yields the 

 Conessi bark of our Materia Medica Cadaga-paJa of the 

 H rtas Makibaricus Pala Cadija of the Tcliiigas. They 

 are bot!» natives of fhe lower reuion of those mountains 

 which bound the Rajaniundry Circar on the north side,and 

 are so much alike in most respects, (the Nectarium ex- 

 cepted ) that \Aithout a tolerable knowledge of both, the 

 one may be mistaken for tlie other; and 1 have no doubt 

 but the bark of the Nerium may have been gathered and 

 sold for Conessi bark, to which I attribute the disrepute 

 that has fallen upon Conessi bark in Europe ; for with the 

 natives of most part of India it is deemed a specific in 

 most coi'.iplaints of the bowels. And I am inclined to 

 think it deserves a better name than it has hitherto ac- 

 quired amongst Europeans. 



Trunk very irregular in shape, when very old it is 

 from one and a half to two feet in diameter, but when of. 

 that size, it is full of large, rotten cavities ; its height to 



