URCEOLA. 



very elastic, scentless, and possessing all the qualities of the best 

 samples of that substance. 



PLUMIERIA. 



Calyx obtuse, very small, with 5 obsolete teeth. Corolla 

 funnel-shaped, with a long tube enlarging by degrees; limb 

 5-parted, somewhat erect, with ovate-oblong, oblique segments. 

 Filaments on the middle of the tube ; anthers converging. 

 Stigma double, acuminate, nearly sessile. Follicles long, acu- 

 minate, ventricose. Seeds numerous, oblong, with a large, ovate, 

 toothed membrane. Small trees with succulent branches, and 

 showy fragrant flowers. 



1137. P. rubra Linn. hort. cliff, p. 76. Bot. Reg. x. t. 780. 

 Jamaica and Surinam. 



Leaves ovate-oblong ; flower-stalks downy. Flowers very large, 

 fragrant, white outside, yellow inside, and stained with red at the ends 

 of the segments. Milk excessively corrosive. 



1138. P. acutifolia Poir. enc. meth. suppl. ii. 667. P. acu- 

 minata Ait. Kew. ed. 2. ii. 70. Bot. Reg. ii. t. 114. P. obtusa 

 Lour, cochinch. 117. 5 not of Linn. (Rumph. iv. 85. t. 38.) 

 Malay Archipelago, and Cochinchina. 



Leaves lanceolate, flat, acuminate. Flowers very fragrant, in com- 

 pact cymes. Corolla white with a yellow throat ; the segments linear- 

 oblong, obtuse. The root is used as a cathartic in Java. 



1139. P. drastica Martins, is said to be a powerful Brazilian 

 purgative. 



CAMERARIA. 



Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla between funnel-shaped and hypo- 

 crateriform, with the segments of the limb oblique. Stamens 

 inserted in the tube ; anthers acuminate, converging, extended 

 at the point into a thread. Styles scarcely any. Follicles re- 

 flexed, lobed on each side at the base. Seeds roundish, obtusely 

 pointed, compressed. 



1140. C. latifolia Jacq. amer. 37. t. 182. f. 86. Sot. Repos. 

 t. 261. R. and S. iv. 421. Meadows in Jamaica, Cuba, and 

 St. Domingo. (Bastard Manchineel tree.) 



A tall elegant tree, with a branching head ; yielding a most copious 

 supply of white coagulable milk. Leaves roundish-ovate, cuspidate, 

 with parallel transverse streaks, very shining, rather stiff, stalked. 

 Peduncles 1-flowered or many-flowered, slender, long, axillary, or in 

 the forks of the twigs. Flowers white. It is probable that this 

 plant, which is very abundant in Cuba, might prove a valuable source 

 of Caoutchouc, as the milk gushes out at the smallest wound, and 

 readily thickens. It is however said, I know not upon what authority, 

 to be so poisonous as to be used by the West Indian natives to en- 

 venom their arrows. Jacquin mentions nothing of it, and in Lunan's 

 compilation the juice is merely said to be acrid. 

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