462 ODOROGRAPIIIA. 



Canthium cymosuni, PersoDii, Synopsis Plantai'um, i., p. 200, is aii 

 arborescent shrulj with pnbescent branches and ovate-acute, shining 

 leaves. The cymes are axillary, pedunculate, niany-llowered. 

 Flowers wliite, fragrant. Xative of the East Indies. 



Cupia thyrsoidea, D.C., loc. cit., ; Weber a thyrsoidea, Eoth., Nova- 

 Plantarum, p. 149 ; Canthium thyrsoideum, Eoenier et Schultes 

 Systema Vegetabilium, vi., p. 207. A shrulj with woody branches 

 clothed with brown pubescence. Leaves oblong-ovate, acuminated 

 at both ends : thvrse dense, terminal ; flowers white. 



Frangipani. 



This name was given by French colonists in the AVest Indies, to 

 the Plumieria rubra and P. alba. 



Plumicria is the name of a genus of Apucynacea:, having the 

 corolla funnel-shaped, w4th a long slender tulje, the segments of 

 its border unequal ; and the style short, ending in a thick and 

 notched stigma. The species are trees or shrul)S, with alternate, 

 fleshy leaves growing in tufts at the ends of the branches. The 

 peduncles are terminal and corymbose. The plants are natives of 

 Peru and other parts of South America and are distributed in 

 several of the West Indian Islands. The genus was named by 

 Tournefort in honour of Charles Plumier, a Franciscan traveller in 

 South America and autlior of several excellent works on botany. 



P. rubra, Jacquin, Stirpium Americanarum Historia (coloured 

 plate edition), p. 1)5, t. 2o : Lin. Hortus Clitibrtianus, p. 76 ; Lin. 

 spec, p. 306 ; Bot. Mag., t. 279 ; Catesljy, Tlie Xat. Hist, of 

 Carolina, Florida, etc., ii., t. 92 ; Ehret Plantic rariores, t. 10 : Trew, 

 Plantcc selects^ ab Ehret pictic, t. 41 ; Sloane, Voyage to Madeira, 

 Barbadoes, Jamaica, etc., ii., p. 61 ; t. 185, f. 1 and t. 186, f. 1 ; 

 Merian, l)e metamorphosibus insectorum, Surinamensium, t. 8 ; 

 Plukenett, Amaltheum botanicum, p. 109 : t. 207, f. 2. Native of 

 Jamaica, Surinam and the main land of South America. It is 

 grown in St. A^incent from seed. This and P. alba are also found 

 in the island of Martiniijue, where they are particularly abundant 

 in the commune of Sainte Lucie. It is also grown in Eeunion. 

 It is called by the French in the AVest Indies Frangipanie Rouge ; 

 it is also called "Eed Jasndne." It forms a tree of from 12 to 20 



