89. APOCYNACEJE. [7. Tabern^montana. 



d. P. rubra, L. Frang-ipani, Vern. 



Bears dense heads of pretty red flowers. 



All the species are sometimes called Frangipani. There are others in cultivation 

 but less common. All are easily raised from cuttings. 



6. VINCA, L. Periwinkle. 



Herbs or shrubs with opposite entire leaves and axillary flowers. 

 Calyx 5-partite with narrow sepals. Corolla salver- shaped, throat 

 constricted, tube with reflexed hairs below the included stamens. 

 Disc of 2 large glands. Ccxrpels distinct, style with thickened top 

 and annulate viscid stigma sometimes with a reflexed membrane. 

 Ovules 6 oi more in each carpel. Follicles 2, slender. Seeds truncate 

 each end. 



Leaves lanceolate. Fls. '25" diam 1. pusilla. 



Leaves ovate to obovate. Fls. 1-2" diaiu. 2. rosea. 



1. Y. pusilla, Murr. 



A small erect herb 6-15" high with acutely 4-angled stems. Leaves 

 l-2"5", lanceolate acuminate with minutely scabrid edges, otherwise 

 glabrous, stipular glands subulate, petiole •2-'25", slender. Flowers 

 white, sepals 15" filifox'm. Corolla-tube •3-"4" long, swollen above. 

 Follicles 2-3" long, very slender, diverging, membranous. 

 Frequent in cultivated land. Chota Nagpur ! Fl., Fr. r.s. 



2. Y. rosea, L. 



A beautiful herbaceous or somewhat suffruticose plant 1-2 ft. high 

 with deep green polished oval, obovate or oblong leaves and pure 

 white or deep rose-coloured flowers usually paired and sessile in the 

 axils. Base of petiole 2-glandular. Corolla 1-2' diam. Follicles -9" 

 long. 



Very common in gardens. FL, Fr, all the year round, and often self-sown, 

 Probablj' native of America. 



7. TABERNtEMONTANA, Br. 



Trees or shrubs. Flowers white in axillary and terminal cymes. 

 Calyx 5-lobed or -partite, glandular within, rarely eglandular. Corolla 

 salver-shaped, petals oblong or suborbicular. Stamens about middle 

 or below middle of the tube. Disc 0. Carpels distinct, style with 

 top urceolate ovoid or clavate, stigma short or long, 2-lobed. Ovules 

 usually many a,nd many-seriate. Follicles ovoid or oblong, often 

 curved, dry coriaceous or fleshy with the seeds buried in pulp, grooved 

 on one face, smooth striate or rugose. Albumen fleshy, sometimes 

 ruminate. Cotyledons ovate, radicle long or short. 



1. T. coronaria, Br. Syn. Ervatamia coronaria, Stapf; Chandni, 

 Vern. ; Tagar, H. 

 A very handsome bushy shrub with dark green foliage paler 

 beneath and pure Avhite flowers. 



Very commonly cultivated and appai-ently wild in Purneah ! This is not iinlikely, 

 as I have found it undoubtedlj^ wild in Sikkim and the foothills of Sikkim and 

 Bhotan. The F.B.I, says that the native country is unknown ! Bettiah, Riero- 

 nymns (wild?) ! Fl. h.s. and r.s. Fr, c.s. Evergreen. 



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