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mucronate, entire, coriaceous, glabrous. Venation pin- 

 nate, side veins numerous, pointing forwards. 



Flowers in pairs in the axils of the leaves. Calyx 

 with five long slender sepals. Corolla salver-shaped,, 

 the tube long and narrow, the mouth contracted, and 

 almost closed below by a fringe of hairs, the limb 

 spreading in five broad petals. Anthers five, sessile 

 on the inside of the corolla tube; the pollen of each 

 anther ejected as two yellow masses, which however 

 afterwards disintegrate. Ovary of two carpels, joined 

 in one style but free below, with a large green gland 

 on either side. Stigmatic head shaped like an hour- 

 glass, of two superimposed discs with a fringe below* 

 Fruit of two follicles with numerous small seeds. 



The Periwinkles (v. MAJOR, L. and V. MINOR, L.} 

 of England belong to this same genus. 



NERIUM ODORUM, Soland. a shrub very commonly 

 grown in Indian gardens for its sweet-scented pink 

 flowers. 



Leaves opposite or in threes, narrow elliptic or 

 lanceolate, acute, coriaceous, glabrous. Margin revo- 

 lute, venation pinnate, the midrib very strong, the 

 veins slender, numerous and straight. 



Flowers in terminal cymose panicles, bracteate* 

 Sepals five, lanceolate, acute. Corolla monopetalous,. 

 ventricose with spreading limb, the lower half of tube 

 narrow, upper inflated. Lobes of limb five, oblique 

 rounded convolute overlapping. Mouth with circle of 

 filamentous projections. Stamens five, anthers sessile 

 on the throat of the corolla, sagittate, adhering to the 

 stigma and prolonged above into five long hairy and 

 twisted filaments, the pollen as in VINCA, coming out 



