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enlarged towards the naked mouth, rarely near or below the middle ; 

 lobes overlapping to the left, rarely to the right. Stamens erect, in- 

 serted in the iuilated part of the corolla, included; fihiments short; 

 anthers linear, acute, 2-lobed at the base, polliniferous and dehiscing 

 throughout their entire length. Disk 0. Carpels of the ovary 2, some- 

 times slightly coherent ; ovules numerous in each carpel, many-seriate ; 

 style usually long, fihform ; stigma at the level of the anthers, clavate 

 or oblong-ellipsoid with a slender papillose bifid apiculus. Follicles 

 twin, more or less coriaceous when mature, obliquely ovoid to lanceolate, 

 usually curved and beaked, rounded on the back, usually 1-3-keeIed on 

 each side. Seeds few to many, enveloped in an orange-colored or red 

 aril, more or less irregularly ellipsoid, deeply grooved ventrally ; testa 

 crustaceous, finely sulcate ; albumen copious. — Distrib. Tropical Asia, 

 Australia, and Polynesia, 1 species in Madagascar ; species about 30. 



Dr. Stapf has broken up the genus TaberncEmo7itcma, which had become a hetero- 

 geneous assemblage, into several new genera, with the result that the genus Tahernce- 

 montana proper has been entirely excluded from the Old World (see Stapf, in Dyer, 

 n. Trop. Afr. v. 4, p. 25). Most of the Indian species under the genus Taberncemontana 

 in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. will be transfen-ed to the new genus Ervataniia. 



1. Ervatamia Heyneana, 7\ CooJce. A shrub or small tree 

 8-15 feet high; bark grey, rough. Leaves 3-8 by l-[-3 in., coriaceous, 

 oblong or oblong-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, glabrous, base acute ; 

 main nerves 12-16 pairs ; petioles ^-| in. long, dilated at the base. 

 Flowers in pedunculate many-flowered cymes ; peduncles 1-2 in. long ; 

 pedicels |-1 in. long; buds clavate, rounded at the apex. Calyx 1 in. 

 long, coriaceous, glabrous ; lobes Jg- in. long, broadly oblong, obtuse, 

 Avith membranous margins. Corolla-tube ^-1 in. long, inflated near the 

 top ; limb (when expanded) 1 in. across, with obtuse crisped lobes over- 

 lapping to the right. Follicles 1-1 5 by |-i in., yellow when ripe, 

 subsessile, curved, somewhat boat-shaped, usually with a short beak 

 which is often recurved, and 2 sharp side-ribs. Seeds ^ in. long, sur- 

 rounded by a red pulp. Tahernamontana Neyneana, Wall. Cat. (1828) 

 1573; in Bot. Eeg. (1829) n. 7, sub t. 1273; Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 3, 

 p. 646 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 226 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 12 (1898) p. 165. T. crispa, Dalz. & Gibs. p. 144 {not of Koxb.) ; 

 A\^oodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 165. T. dichotoma (?), 

 Grab. Cat. p. 115 {not a^ lioxb,). — Flowers: Mar.-Apr. Vern. Aay- 

 Jcudd. 



KoNKAN : Lmul, Sfoc/isl ; Matheran, Coolce\ S. M. Country: Kamghat, Tt'iichic, 

 18481 ; Casderock, Bhival, Woodrowl Kanaka: Rifchic, 1848.'; N. Kanara in ever- 

 green forests common, Talbot. — Distkib. India (W. Peninsula), apparently endemic. 



Ervatamia coronaria, Stapf, in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 4 (1002) p. 127. 

 A well known glabrous much-bi-anched shrub with pale bark, grown 

 largely (especially that with double flowers) in gardens throughout the 

 Bombay Presidency and indeed throughout India. Its native country 

 is not known with certainty, but it is supposed to be indigenous in 

 N. India. Leaves 3-6 by -f-l^ in., lanceolate or oblong, acuminate; 

 main nerves 7-9 pairs; petioles ^-^ in. long. Flowers snow-white, 

 fragrant at night, inodorous during the day ; corolla-tube -}-l in. long, 

 the ujouth nakt-d ; lobes overlapping to the left. There is a long- and a 



