APOCYNACEA. 413, 
TABERNA2AMONTANA CORONARIA, Pr. 
. Fig.— Wight Ic. t. 477; Bot. Mag. 1861; Etheede Hort. 
Mal. wi., 54,55. Ceylon Jasmine (Hng.), Arbve-vache (F'r.). 
Hab.—Uncertain. Cultivated in India. The milky juice 
and root. 
Vernacular.—Tagar (Hind., Mar., Guz.), Nandia-vatai, 
Nanthia-vatai (Tam., Tel.), Nandi-battal (Can.), Kar&ta-p4la 
(Wal). 
History, Uses, &c.—This shrub is often confounded 
with the Tagara of the N ighantas (see Valertana Wallichit). 
Rheede says that the milky juice of 7. coronaria mixed with 
oil is rubbed into the head to cure pain in the eyes; the root 
chewed relieves toothache ; rubbed with water it kills intestinal 
worms ; with limejuice it removes opacities of the cornea. It 
is the Fula de S. Antonio of the Portuguese. Ainslie (ii., 257) 
states that the Sanskrit name given to it in Southern India is 
Nandivriksha, and that it is very cooling in ophthalmia. In 
Western India the milk has the reputation of being very cool- 
ing, and is applied to wounds to prevent inflammation. Two 
wild species, 7’. dichotoma and 7’. Heyneana, are considered to 
2 have similar properties, and are known by the same vernacular 
names. In Pudnkota the flowers are used in inflammation of 
the cornea. The milk of plants belonging to this genus con- 
tains caoutchouc and resins, but is generally free from acridity. 
T’. utilis is the Hya-Hya or Cow-tree of British Guiana, which 
_ yields a copious supply of thick sweet milk when tapped. 
~ Description.—A shrub 6—8 ft., much dichotomously 
branched, bark pale ; leaves 4—6 inches by 1—1{ inch, glossy, 
rather coriaceous, green when dry, pale beneath, margin 
waved, petiole } —} in., axils of petioles glandular. Peduncles 
1—2 in., pedicels Siedex: bracts minute. Flowers pure white, 
_ often double, fragrant. Follicles 1—3 in., spreading and re- 
curved, sessile or contracted into a sort of stalk at the base, 
long, beaked or not, 3-ribbed ; seeds 3 to 6, 
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