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2. alba, Jacq. {Amer. 36, t. 174, /. 12 ; ed. pict. t. 38 ;— L. sp. ,-—(?. 

 Dora. /. c.;—Roxb. H. B. p. 20.) 5 West Indies. S. America. Fl. 

 large, white, with a yellowish tube and throat, very fragrant, or, as L. 

 says, " ambrosiacal, exciting cephalalgia," May, June and July ; fr. 0. 

 Z, acuminata, Ait. (6r. Don. o. c. p. 94; B. Reg. 2, t. 114; — Roxb. fl. 

 ind. 2, JO. 20;—/. Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 115;— Wight, icon. 2, ^.471. 

 — P. acutifolia, Poir. — P. obtusa. Lour., not L. — Rumph. 4, t. 38.) 

 '^«r) Ft«r Goola-cheen. (Hind.) C^^f??[1 ^t^1 Goburiya-champa. 5 

 Cultivated in China, Cochin-China, India, the Moluccas, &c. where it 

 is thoroughly domesticated. It is, however, no doubt, with the other 

 Plumieras a native of S. America or the W. Indies. Fl. large, reddish- 

 yellowish- white, fragrant, especially during the night. H. and R. S. ; 

 fr. 0, or very rare. 

 Allamanda, L. {Mill. diet. ed. G. Don. A, p. 102.) 



1. cathariica, L. {Mant. 214 ;— Giirtn.fr. 1, p. 293, t. 61, /. 4 ,— B. M. 

 10, t. 338 ; — Roxb. H. B. p. 19. — A. oenothersefolia, Pohl. ; — G. Don. 

 0. c. p. 103. — A. Schottii, Pohl.; — G. Don. I. c. — A. angustifoha, 

 Pohl. ; — G. Don. I. c. — A. Linnsei, Pohl. ; — G. Don. I. c. — A. Aubletii, 

 Pohl. ; — G. Don. I. c. ; — J. Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 116. — A. verticillata, 

 Desf.; — Pohl..; — G. Don. I. c.) B Guiana. Brazil. Surinam. W. 

 Indies. Fl. very large, bright yellow, fragrant, and fr. throughout 

 the year. 

 This shrub was introduced from Guiana into India in 1803, and is now 

 very common in gardens. ' Stems erect, larger branches hollow in the mid- 

 dle ; smaller ones and young shoots tilled with thick viscid milk, glabrous, 

 in a dried state fistulous. Leaves mostly 4, sometimes 6, 5 or 3 in a 

 vharl, or only 2, opposite, sub-opposite or alternate ; they are oblong, 

 2-4-5 inches long, ^-\-2 wide across the middle, acuminate, acute, to- 

 wards base cuneately attenuated, now and then oblong-obovate, acutish, at 

 margins revolutely undulated, above dark green and glabrous, underneath 

 pale green and when badly dried brown- spotted, roughishly hairy along 

 the midrib and primary veins, or only very little so along the first, or 

 over the whole surface.' Of this characteristic there is more than enough 

 to form six such species as Pohl's, which being made exclusively from 

 unimportant leaf-discrepancies, are good for nought. His one climbing 

 species has not been discovered here, but were a specimen of Allamanda 

 placed close to a tree, it might, perhaps, like a Clerodendron phlomoides in 

 our garden, take a fancy to ascend a pretty large Coccoloba uvifera. 



* Echites umbcllala, Jacq. /^ Jamaica. — E. biflora, Jacq. ^-^ W. Indies. 

 — E. domingensis, Swz. 5 /^ St. Domingo. Jamaica. — E. trifida, 

 Jacq. % ^~\ Cumana. — E. rhynchosperma, Wall. pi. as rar. I, t. 49. 

 3 ^-N Martaljan. — E. Blamii, (M earyophyllata, 131. not Roxb. — Rheed. 

 7, t. .55.) S v^ Java. — E. murginala, Roxb. (Aganosma marginata, 

 G. Don;— Wight, icon. 2, t. 425.) B \^ 'aiWi^i.—E. parviflora, 



