2 PBNTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nerium. 



ahalf lon<?, and three-fourths of an inch broad. Stipules 

 subulate. Flowers axillary, in pairs, small, white, short- 

 peduncled. Corol, mouth of the tube contracted, and shut 

 with hair. Nectarial corpuscles as in the family. 



NERIUM. Schreh. gen. N. 420. 



Corol funnel-shaped ; mouth of the tube variously 

 crowned. Germ tno-cclled ; cells many-seeded, attach- 

 ment interior. Follicles two. Seeds many, c omose. Em- 

 bryo inverse, (sub-convolute, or expanded.) 



1. N. odorum. Wilkl. 1. 1215. 



Leaves linear-lanceolate, tern. Segments of the calyx 

 erect. Nectaries many cleft divisions filiform. 



Sans. Karavira, vide Asiat. Researches, 4. 265. 



Beng. K«rwbee, l'//ktrt Kj^rwbee (the red variety), 

 Sweta KMr?djee (the white variety), Pwdnirt Kwrwbee 

 the double variet\ ). 



Hind. Lall-Karpud, (the single rose-coloured), SufTet 

 or Shwet Karpud (single white), Padmu-Karpud (the 

 double variety.) 



Belutta-areli, Hheed Mai. 9. t. 2. 



Tsjovanna-areli, Rheed. Mai. i). t. 1. 



Common in gardens in every part of India, and in 

 flower the whole year. 



2. N. coccioeum. R. 



Arboreous. Leaves sul)-sessile, ovate-oblons;, entire, 

 apex alternate. Flowers terminal, three or four; necta- 

 riurn acetabuliform. Follicles linear, rough. 



PwllMm, the vernacular name in Silhet. 



A native of the eastern frontier of Bengal, beyond the 

 mouth of the Megna, ironi thence introduced by R. K. 

 Dick, Esq. into the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where it 

 blossoms in April . In its native soil it grows to be a large 



