164 — APOCYNER. [ Allamanda, 
Corona of corolla consisting of 5 or 10 erect scales either distinct 
or 
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united ; trees or erect shrubs . ‘ ¢ : if . Wrightia. 
Anthers included in the corolla-tube. 
Corolla-throat with 5 laciniate-toothed scales; seeds albuminous ; 
erect trees or shrubs. 2 : ; . : : . Nerium, 
ALLAMANDA, L. 
Calyx 5-parted, the segments lanceolate or oblong. Corolla 
bell- or funnel-shaped with a shorter or longer tube, the lobes twisted 
in bud, the throat furnished with scales consisting of hairs which 
are 2-parted and opposite to the corolla-lobes, Anthers sagittate. 
Nectary fleshy, simple. Ovary conical, entire, 1-celled, with numet- 
ous campylotrop ovules along the two parietal placentas; stigma 2- 
obed. Capsule compressed-ellipsoid, echinate, opening in 2 valves 
bearing the septas along their borders. Seeds in two rows, come 
pressed and rotundate. Albumen scanty. Embryo with leaty 
cotyledons.— Shrubs or trees, with opposite or usually whorled entire 
leaves. Flowers large, yellow, in poor terminal corymbs. 
. A. cathartica, L.—An evergreen large shrub, all parts 
glabrous ; leaves whorled or opposite, obovate- to oblong-lanceolate, 
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membranous, glossy above and often pubescent on the midrib 
ing a poor, terminal, short-peduncled, glabrous corymb ; corolla 
funnel- bell-shaped, the tube slender, up to an inch long, the m- 
Has.—Of American origin, often cultivated by B ns and sometimes 
half-wild in village shrubberies FT RS. gis a 
WILLUGHBEIA, Roxb. 
Cymes cluster-like. short-peduneled ; b 
; > 3 berry ovate, smooth 
Clusters sessile or nearly so; berry globular, wrinkled 
