Class ^d. 

 DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



NYCTANTHES. Sckreb. gen. x\. 21. 



Ca!i/x campanulate. Corul salver-shaped. Capsule superior, obcor- 

 date, compressed, two-celled, two-valved. Seeds solitary. Embryo 

 erect wiihout perisperm. 



1. N. arbor tristis. Linn. Spec. Plant, ed. Willd. 1. 35. 



Parlium arbor tristis. Gcmrt. Sent. 1. 234. t. 51. 



Scabrita scabra. Va/il. Sijmb. 2. 28. Gart. Sem. 2. 265. t. 138. 



Scabrita triflora. Linn. ISIant. \. p. 37. 



Mauja punierani. R/iecd. nial. I. p. 35. t. 21. 



Sephalica. As. Res. 4. 244. 



Sans. Hind, and Beng. Singahar, Sewly,Nibari, Har-singliar,&c.* 



Of M hat country this is a native I know not, for 1 have never found 

 it but in a cultivated state; and it is always raised from seed, which 

 may be the reason we have no varieties of this most delightfully fra- 

 grant plant. In our gardens it is found in the state of a large shrub, 

 or small tiee. Flowers, on the Coast^ nearly the year round ; in 

 Bengal only during the rains. The seeds ripen in the cold season. 



Trunk eiect. Bark scabrous. Bro^cAesnumerous, spreading in eve- 

 ry direction ; the young shoots alone are four-sided ; four ligneous, 

 cord-like nerves, under the bark, forming the angles, — Leares oppo- 

 site, short-petioled, cordate, those near the flowers oblong, pointed, 

 sometimes entire, sometimes very grossly serrate, and sometimes the 



• At Napaul, Baleeja Soah ; Soa, Soang aad Swa being synonymous terms in that 

 country for Flower,—^. W. 



