40 APOCYNACEM. [Nebium. 



inserted near the mouth of the tube, filaments short ; anthers con- 

 niving around and adhering to the stigma, tipped with long hairy 

 appendages, each cell produced downwards into a rigid spur-like 

 appendage. Carpels 2, distinct, many ovuled ; style filiform or 

 dilated upwards ; stigma with a reflected lobed membrane surmounted 

 by 5 tubercles, tip subglobose. Follicles cvlindric, straight, ad- 

 pressed. Seeds oblong, villous ; coma terminal, caducous ; albumen 

 fleshy, cotyledons flat. — Species 2 or 3, extending from the Medi- 

 terranean to N. Asia and Japan. 



Nerium odorum, Soland. in Hort. Kew. ed. I, i, 297 ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 

 2 ; Brandts For. Fl. 32S ; F.B. I. Hi, 655 ; Watt F. D.; Kanjilal For. Fl, 

 236; Gamble Man. lad. Timb. 4S7 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 312; Prain Beng. 

 PI. 676; Cooke Fl. Bomb.ii, 143. -Vern. Kaner. 



A large glabrous evergreen shrub with milky juice. Leaves in three3, 

 shortly stalked, coriaceous, 4-6 in. long, linear-lanceolate, acuminate , 

 tapering into the short petiole, dark green and shining above, midrib 

 stout ; nerves numerous, spreading horizontally. Flowers red rose- 

 coloured or white, fragrant. Calyx-lobes lanceolate. Corolla 1^ in. in 

 diam., fragrant, lobes rounded. Filaments hairy, appendages of 

 anthers twice as long as the cells. Follicles 6-9 in. long, rigid, at 

 length separating. Seeds about ^ in. long, tipped with a coma of 

 light brown hairs. 



On the edges of rooky water-courses on both sides of the Siwalik 

 Eange in the districts of Dehra Dun and Saharanpur, also in N. 

 Oudh. Flowers usually April to June. Distbib. Himalaya from 

 Nepal westwards to Kashmir up to 6,500 ft., on the Punjab Salt 

 Eange, extending westwards to Baluchistan and Afghanistan, also in 

 C. and S. India. It is extensively cultivated throughout the greater 

 part of India, as well as in China and Japan. The leaves are 

 used in native medicine, and the bark and root are poisonous. This 

 shrub is closely allied to the European oleander, which is found as far 

 east as Persia. 



10. TRACHELOSPERMUM, Lemaire ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 667. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, nerves distant. Flowers white 

 or purplish, in lax terminal or pseudo-axillary cymes. Calyx small, 

 5-pa.rtite, glaudular or scaly within. Corolla salver-shaped ; tube 

 cyiindric, dilated round the anthers; lobes 5, oblique, overlapping to 

 the right, twisted to the left. Stamens attached above the middle of 

 the tube ; filaments short, broad ; anthers conniving over and 

 adhering to the stigma, cells spurred at the base. Disk annular or 

 of obiong glands. Carpels 2, distiuct, many .ovuled ; style cupular, 

 stigma oblong. Follicles elongate, slender, incurved, terete. Seeds 



