ALLAMAN’DA CATHARTICA. 
WILLOW-LEAVED ALLAMANDA. 
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- NATURAL ORDER, APOCYNACEA. 
CORROLIFLORE, [Se {et seyret PENTANDRIA, 
OF a Eire MONOGYNIA, 
DECANDOLLE. ¥! Ee |= Plat a | OF LINNEUS- 
US. Arramanps. Linvzus. ei ALYX quinquepartitu Coroita in- 
fundibuliformis, tubo cylindrico, Sail squamis quinque ciliatis aucta, limbi 
quinquefidi campanulati ampli laciniis obtusis subinequalibus. Stamina 
quingque, coroll# fauci inserta, inclusa, antheris sagittatis subsessilibus conni- 
ventibus. Ovarrum uniloculare compressum. Ovvta in placenta margin 
ambiente plurima, e faniculis longiusculis pendula. Capsura Savino: elliptica, 
compressa, echinata, unilocularis, bivalvis. Srmina plurima, ala membrana- 
cea cincta. Frovtices vel sufiratices Amerie tropice; erect vel scandentes. 
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speciosi lutei. tas HER: Genera Plantarum, p. 579. 
ECIES. AttamManpa caTHartica. Linvevs. Foxtts subquaternis ob- 
longis acuminatis glaberrimis, 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, ALLAMANDA. CALyx five-cleft. 
Coroxia funnel-shaped, the tube cylindrical, the throat furnished 
inside with five hairy scales, the limb five-cleft, very large, bell-shaped, 
the divisions blunt and slightly unequal. Sramens five, included 
within the throat of the corolla where they are attached, the anthers 
dart-shaped, nearly sessile, and connivent. Ovary one-celled, com- 
pressed. Ovo ces several, attached to a marginal placenta, hanging 
from a long funiculus. CAapsuLrE coriaceous, elliptical, compressed, 
‘prickly, one-celled, ee ae SeEDs several, surrounded with a 
membranous wing. il 
- DEscRIPTION OF THE Species, ALLAMANDA CATHARTICA. STEM 
climbing, smooth, nearly cylindrical. Leaves four in a whorl, ob- 
long, three to four inches long, usually broader above the middle, and 
ending in a broad blunt point, narrowed at the base into a short foot- 
stalk, leathery, smooth on both sides, shining on the upper surface. 
PEDUNCLES terminal or interpetiolar, one to three-flowered and short, 
or sometimes lengthened and bearing a greater number. Catyx with 
lanceolate green divisions, four or five lines long. COROLLA very 
large and yellow, the tube slender, about an inch long, the limb 
forming a broad irregular bell about two inches long. In the throat 
