are inserted five lanceolate, pointed, somewhat dart-shaped ANTHERS, 
and immediately below them, five short double squame, covered with 
short hairs. 
Poputar AND GeograpHicaL Notice. This plant was early 
known to the naturalists who attended to West Indian Botany, on 
account of the strong medical properties it has always been supposed 
to possess. It was first brought from the southern West Indian 
Islands and Guiana, and various plants resembling the original one 
having been gathered from the South American Continent as far down 
as Rio Janeiro, it was supposed that they were all varieties of one species, 
till Pohl, in his Icones, distinguished them, figuring three which he 
considered as entirely new, and giving amended characters for the 
older ones. According to him, the West Indian plant, (which is 
here described from specimens gathered in St. Vincent's) with perfectly 
glabrous leaves and stems, is distinct from Aublet’s Cayenne Orelia, 
which has the young branches slightly hairy as ~~ as the under side of 
the leaves, a character to which the Cayenne ly warrant 
our attaching much importance. it is even matter of great doubt 
whether Allamanda Schottia of Pohl, should not also be joined, not- 
withstanding the erect stem attributed to it. The Allamanda cnothe- 
refolia and angustifolia, and a new species gathered in the mountains 
of Bahia by Mr. Blanchet, must, however, be adopted, and it is pro- 
bable that others may yet be discovered. None have been found 
beyond the limits of the above-mentioned countries. 
INTRODUCTION ; WHERE GROWN; CuLTuRE. The Allamanda ca- . 
thartica was introduced in 1785, by Baron Hake, from Guiana, and 
raised in the Royal Gardens at Kew, where it has continued to be 
grown, and where our drawing was made last summer. It requires 
the hothouse, to which, however, if badly grown, it may not be thought 
so splendid an ornament as some others, though if made to flower 
abundantly it proves very handsome. It should be potted in a rich 
light loam. 
DERIVATION OF THE "Vie 
ALLAMANDA, named in honour of Dr, F. Allama ifs a pf of Leyden, who 
wrote on its medicinal properties. ee purgative 
SyNnon 
ALLAMANDA CATHARTICA, Linnzus: ea p- 214. Botanical Magazine, 
t, 338. 
dtniicendibs Lrynzr. Pohl Icones, v. 1, p. 74 
ANDA AUBLETSS? probably a variety, Pohl, p- 75. 
