Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 451 



at tip. Follicles spreading at about 90^ to 100'^ apart, oblong, 1 to 

 2 in. long, with 1 to 3 keels and a recurved acuminate tip, opening out 

 flat when fully ripe. Seeds 3 to 6, irregularly oblong, angular, -25 in. 

 long, enclosed in a red pulpy aril ; deeply grooved ventrally with a 

 branching groove ; testa crustaceous, sulcate, glandular, the furrows 

 protruded into the albumen, which is copious ; cotyledons ovate- 

 cordate, "1 in. long ; radicle cylindric, as long as the cotyledons. Cooke 

 Fl. Bomb. II, 134. Taherncemontana coronaria, Willd. Enum. Hort. 

 Berol. 275 ; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, II. 72 ; A. DC. Prodr. VIII. 373 ; 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. II. 23; Wall. Cat. 1568; Wight Ic. 477; Lodd. Bot.. 

 Cab. t. 406 ; Lindl. in Bot. Eeg. t. 1064 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 144 ; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 421 ; Brandis For. Fl. 322 ; Bedd. Fl. Syiv. 

 CLIX. ; Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 646 ; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 133 ; 

 Prain Beng. Plants 673. T. cUvaricata, Blume Bijdr. 1626 ; Kurz. For. 

 Fl. II. 174. Nerium divaricatum, Linn. Sp. PL 306. N. coronariwn, 

 Jacq. Coll I. 138, t. 52 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1861. Jasminum ze^jlanicum, 

 Burm. Fl. Ind. t. 39. 



Kasoom : Curtis 3243. Penang : back of West Hill at 2000 feet, 

 Curtis ^AQO. Peeak: King's Collector 5163. Malacca : at Bukit Burang, 

 Goodenough 1423. Singapore : Wallich 1568. — Disteib. Apparently 

 wild in N. India. The shrub is commonly cultivated in gardens 

 throughout India and Malaya. 



4. Eevatamia pedunculaeis, King & Gamble. A small shrub 

 (small tree. King's Collector) ; branchlets slender, dichotomous, curved. 

 Leaves membranous ; elliptic or eUiptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 

 obtusely long caudate-acuminate at apex, acute at base ; glabrous, pale 

 beneath ; 4 to 9 in. long, 1-5 to 3 in. broad ; midrib slender ; main 

 nerves 12 to 20 pairs, parallel, starting at an angle of about 60° with 

 the midrib and curving upwards to join in an intramarginal looped 

 nerve ; secondary nerves none ; reticulations transverse, faint ; petiole 

 •25 to '4 in. long, slender at first, afterwards thickening, the base 

 enlarged, half-stem-clasping with a stipular scale within. Cymes glabrous, 

 usually in pairs, axillary, on 2 to 5 in. long slender peduncles ; branches 

 widely divaricate ; secondary peduncles "75 to 1 in. long ; pedicels 

 capillary, -2 to '3 in. long ; bracteoles minute ; flowers white ; buds 

 slender, clavate. Calyx-tube short ; lobes ovate, rounded, glandular 

 within on the middle, -025 in. long. Corolla-tnhe very slender, straight 

 or slightly curved, '4 to "5 in. long, inflated at the top opposite the 

 stamens ; mouth naked, slightly pubescent within below the stamens. 

 Anthers lanceolate, slightly mucronate. Ovary of 2 glabrous carpels; 

 carpels elongate ; style very slender ; stigma, clavate, bifid at apex just 

 beneath the anthers. Follicles stipitate, twisted, oblong or rhomboid, 



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