Holarrhena.] APOCYNACE. 673 
551. Tabernemontana Linn. 
Trees or shrubs; leaves opposite. Flowers white, in terminal 
or sometimes sublateral, never truly axillary cymes. Sepals con- 
nate in a 5-lobed or 5-partite calyx ; tube usually glandular within; 
lobes obtuse, imbricate. Petals 5, connate in a salver-shaped 
corolla; tube cylindric, usually slender, inflated in the middle or 
at apex; throat naked; lobes overlapping to the left. Stamens 
included, at or above the middle of the tube; filaments short or 0; 
anthers acuminate, base sagittate or obtuse. Disk 0. Carpels 2, 
distinct; ovules usually numerous and many-seriate in each 
carpel; style short or long, apex urceolate, ovoid, or clavate ; 
stigma short or long, 2-lobed. Frwit of 2 ovoid-oblong or reni- 
, dry or fleshy, smooth or ribbed, 1-many-seeded follicles. 
Seeds embedded in pulp, ovoid-oblong, subterete or compressed, 
grooved down one face ; testa smooth, striate, or rugose ; albumen 
fleshy, equable or ruminate ; cotyledons ovate. 
Calyx 5-lobed; lobes broadly ovate, acute; corolla-lobes ee 
ovate, obtuse, margins curled; follicles 3-rib oronaria 
Calyx 5-partite; segments narrowly lanceolate ; corolla-lobes piesa 
obovate, acute ; follicles terete .recurva. 
1214, TABERNEMONTANA CORONARIA R. Br.; F. I, ii. 23 ; OMe Soe) © 
iii. : TB: 
Cultivated i in et the provinces. 
A shrub, 6-8 feet high. Vernac. Tagur. 
1215. pepe i REcURVA Roxb.; F. I. ii. 26; F. B. I. 
” ckeeagene 
A small shrub. 
552. Holarrhena R. Br. 
Trees or shrubs; leaves membranous, opposite. Flowers white, 
i ed 
Sepals connate in a 5-lobed or 5-partite calyx, usually glandular 
i bes small, narrow. Potali 5, connate in a salver-shaped 
meluded ; anthers oblong, sidhonbletis mucronate ; cells rounded at o 
base: Disk 0. Carpels 2, distinct; ovules in each numerous Me 
