3. Thevetia.] 89. AFOCYNACE^. 



L. 3-5" tapering' both ends, g'labrous, marg-iu revolute. Cymes sub-terminal 

 shorter than the leaves, few-1-tlcl. Ovary of two more or less connate carpels flat 

 on their inner faces. Ovules 2 in each carpel. Drupe sub-globose, green. 



It is easily grown from seed and is of very quick growth. 



4. KOPSIA, Blume. 



Glabrous trees or shrubs with opposite leaves. Flowers in terminal 

 cymes. Calyx S-jjartite, eg'landular within but sepals with glandular 

 tips. Corolla salver- shaped, tube very slender, throat hairy. Stamens 

 near the top of the tube. Disc of 2 glands. Carpels distinct, style 

 thickened at top. Ovules 2 in each carpel, 1 on either side of a thick 

 placenta. Fruit of 2 short stout coriaceous or rather fleshy carpels, 

 each 1 -celled or 2-celled by the intrusion of the placenta. 



]. K, fruticosa, A.DC. Syn. Cerbera fruticosa, Ker. 



A large spreading evergreen shrub, bearing large handsome lanceo- 

 late leaves and very pretty rose-coloured flowers somewhat resembling 



those of Vhica ro!<ea. 



Native of Burma, often cultivated. 



Cerbera odollam, Gaertn., is a large shrub or small tree wild in the 

 Sunderbans and Chittagong and possibly- occurring in the Mahanadi 

 delta. Cerbera has scattered alternate leaves and funnel-shaped 

 corolla and the fruiting carpel or carpels has a thick fibrous and 

 Avoody pericarp. 



5. PLUMERIA, L. 



Small trees with very thick branchlets scarred with the bases of the 

 fallen petioles. Leaves alternate large, entire, deciduous, with 

 numerous secondary nerves spreading almost at right angles to the 

 mid-rib and joined in an intramarginal nerve. Flowers shoAvy in 

 terminal corymbose cymes, in pairs in the axils of large caducous 

 bracts. Calyx j^erigynous, sepals 5, broad, obtuse. Corolla funnel- 

 shaped with a slender tube and 5 large oblong petals. Anthers sub- 

 sessile at the base of the tube. Ovary almost inferior, of 2 ovoid 

 carpels adherent by their backs to the torus, and connected only at 

 the apex by the swollen stout style with mitriform stigma. Ovules 

 many. Fruit of two stout follicles. An American genus. 



1. P. acutifolia, Poir. Gulachin, Gulchin, Vern.; Gulainchi, H.; 



Gulanj baha, ChamiDa pungar, *S'. ; Pagoda Tree; Spanish Jasmine. 



Leaves oblong but more or less tapering both ends, 8-12" long. 



Flowers white with a yellow centre, very fragrant in short umbellately 



divided cymes on a long peduncle, petals obovate-elliptic, IS" long; 



tube "S-'T", hairy Avithin. 



Very common in gardens. Deciduous in the c.s. Fl. h.s. and r.s. 



2. P. alba, L. 



Leaves darker green, obtuse, Avith narrowly revolute margin. Fls. 

 subspicate on the branches of the corymbose panicle, pure white. 

 Petals 2" oblanceolate Avith rounded tip. 



Frequent but less common than the last. 



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