1 3 2 ApOCynaceCE. Taberncsmoftfana.'\ 



Vahl's specimens were from Kosnif,^ Wood very fine-grained, rather 

 soft and light, pale yellowish-white shining; both it and the bark are 

 much used as a remedy in fevers and dysentery'. The bark is sold under 

 the name of ' Kalinda,' and is valued as an antiperiodic. 



ID. TABERNiBIMCONTANA,* L. 



Small tree, 1. opp., fl. large, in few -flowered axillary 

 (apparently terminal) cymes ; cal.-tube very short, segm. 

 short, obtuse; cor. large, tube cylindrical, widening upwards, 

 naked within, lobes 5 or 6, longer than tube, strongly over- 

 lapping to left; stam. 5, inserted below middle of cor.-tube, 

 anth. nearly sessile, distinct; disk o; carp. 2, distinct, ovules 

 numerous, style short, stigma bifid ; ripe carp, distinct, fleshy 

 bat dehiscent along ventral suture ; seeds very numerous, 

 each surrounded by a pulpy envelope, oblong-ovoid, not com- 

 pressed, grooved down one side, without a coma, endosperm 

 plane. — Sp. no; 14 in Fl. B. Ind. 



T. dichotoma, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 20 (1814). Divi-kaduru, S. 



Herm. Mus. 32. Burm. Thes. 151 (part). Fl. Zeyl. n. 106 (chiefly). 

 Cerbera M'angkas, L. Sp. PI. 208 (chiefly). Moon Cat. 20. Thw. Enum. 

 192. C. P. 2834. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 645. Burm. Thes. t. 70, f. i (excl. fruit). Wight, Ic. t. 

 433. Bot. Reg. 1841, t. 53. 



A small dichotomously branched tree, bark pale grey, 

 smooth, branchlets marked with scars of fallen 1., young parts 

 glabrous, covered with a shining resinous coat ; 1. numerous, 

 4-7 in., lanceolate-oblong, tapering to base, suddenly and 

 shortly acuminate, obtuse, stiff and coriaceous, dark green 

 above, paler beneath, lat. veins numerous, horizontal, parallel, 

 depressed above, prominent beneath, petiole i-i| in., stout; 

 fl. {c\w, on long stout ped., cymes in axils of terminal pair of 

 1., lax, peduncle 2-6 in., stout, glabrous, bracts small, ovate, 

 fleshy, adpressed ; cal. fleshy at base, segm. rounded, glabrous; 

 cor. 1^-3 in. diam., tube 4-1 in., fleshy, lobes considerably 

 longer, oblong, obtuse, falcatel)^ twisted, often crisped at 

 margin; anth. acute; ov. glabrous, style clavate; ripe carp, 

 about 2 in., pendulous, horizontally divaricate or refle.xed, 

 broadly ovoid, blunt, flat on dorsal, rounded on ventral side, 

 smooth, orange-yellow; seed ^ in., finely striate, surrounded 

 by a coat of crimson pulp. 



* Named in commemoration of Jacobus Theodorus, author of the 

 ' Neuw Kreuterbuch,' 1588, and called Tabernajmontanus from the place 

 of his birth, Bergzabern, Elsass. He died in 1590. 



