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TABERN^MONTANA^ densifldra. 

 Close -flowered Tabern(Emontana. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. ApoCYNEiE, 



TABERNjEMONTANA. — Supni, vol. 4. fol. 338. 



T. densifiora ; foliis lanceolatis acuminatis approximatis nunc ternatis, cyma 

 multiflora breve pedunculata, laciniis calycis bracteisque lineari-lanceo- 

 latis acutis, coroUse limbo tubum subsequante, foUiculis monospermis. — 

 Wallich MSS. 



A curious new species, introduced in 1824 by the Honourable Court of 

 Directors of the East India Company, by whom it was presented to the 

 Horticultural Society, in whose Garden at Chiswick our drawing was made 

 in June 1827. 



A tender stove plant, extremely different in habit from the common 

 T. coronaria, of the agreeable perfume of which it is entirely destitute. 

 Propagated by cuttings. 



Dr. Wallich has been so kind as to favour us with the following inter- 

 esting account of this and the other Indian species ; the greater part either 

 wholly new, or now described for the first time. 



J. L. 



" I am in some doubt as to the part of India from which this pretty shrub was 

 introduced into the Honourable Company's Botanic Garden at Calcutta. I suspect, 

 however, that it was brought from Ceylon, as I have seen a specimen in the Herbarium 

 of my friend Mr. Lindley, which was collected on that island by Mr. IM'llae. 



The following are the East Indian species of Tabernsemontana that have come under 

 my own observation : — 



1. T. coronaria. WiUd. 



This is a very common shrub in gardens all over India, both single and double. I 

 have found it seemingly wild in the forests of Lower Nipal, about Hetounda, and at 

 Singapore. 



2. T. recurva. Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 20. 



T. gratissima. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. vol. 13. p. 1084. 

 A native of the district of Chittagong in Bengal, from whence it was sent to the 

 Calcutta Garden by the late Dr. Hamilton. 



3. T. crispa. Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 20. — Foliis oblongis undulatis acutis, pedunculis 

 paucifloris, pedicellis elongatis, calyce profunda 5-partito : laciniis lato-ovatis foliaceis. 



Dr. Roxburgh says, in his MS. Flora Indica, that he knows not from whence this 



* James Theodoras (commonly called Tabernaemontanus, from Bergzabern, in Alsace, 

 the place of his birth) was a Botanist of the sixteenth century, whose works have long 

 sunk into oblivion. He died in 1590. 



