Tabernemontana. | APOCYNER. 173 
twisted in bud. Stamens 5, usually included in the corolla-tube, 
the apiiats usually sagittate and acuminate, or linear. Nectary 
vary consisting of 2 distinct carpels united by the style, 
each carpel with numerous ovules ; stigma thickened, often with a 
membranous ring round the base. Drupes by pairs or solitary by 
abortion, obliquely oblong or nearly globular, distinct or rarely 
united at the base, more or less fleshy or pulpy, either indehiscent 
or tardily opening along the inner face. Albumen fleshy. Embryo 
with leafy cotyledons and a superior radicle.—Shrubs or rarely 
trees, with opposite entire leaves. Flowers in cymes, often by pairs 
in the axils of the uppermost leaves, Bracts usually very small. 
* Bractlets persistent, conspicuous, longer than the pedi- 
Corolla-lobes longer than the es. onyaslabes 2-3 lin. eae 
linear-lanceolate . T. recurva. 
Corolla-lobes _ s long as the tube . ZT. calycin 
** Bra and. pile pcr = very deciduous and small, or 
ent and m 
x Pollicies ‘aperng = os base but not stalked, with- 
out a dage, (usually cylindrical with 6 
hinigitaaiitel often elev 88 — nes). 
OQ Ca ly cy ponte or acu Anthers inserted 
ards the upper end lof the Mavens tube. 
large, showy coral — as long as t - T. divaricata. 
Calyeloes _. te —— — 3-4 “i n. retin cokitia: lobes 
early as lo ae as athe ; . I. alternifolia. 
Corolla- i io about half as yee as the tube, or shorter. 
rolla nearly an inch long ; = egrearioe : : Pe 
Corolla hardly 4 an inch long; calyx- sigs ane Sie a ‘pio, 
Doubtful species ; ; ore. lobes ovate, rather blunt ‘ f s aciliflora, 
tful species f aierendree 
OD) Calyx-lobes _subulate- acuminate or rotu tundate 
bere e long ; oeacs inserted sae 
of po corolla-tub 
Corolla-tube —_ a in, nog. sig lobes half as ong. or shorter ; 
calyx-lobes s . T. membranifolia, 
x Fotles ioath ete, terminating i ina | coriaceous 
Calyx-lobes Sealed at riko a 3 : . T. subcapitata. 
calycina, Wall.—Glabrous ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, 
: e base, blunt-acuminate, membranous, glabrous, on a 
4-6 lin. long petiole dilated at the base , 3-4 in. long ; flowers 9 
lin. long, on pedicels shorter than the calyx, forming usually 2 
naked, dichotomously-branched, glabrous cymes ona peduncle twice 
as long as the petiole, arising from the fork of the upper branch- 
lets ; bracts conspicuous, 2-3, linear-acuminate, arising from the 
middle of the pedicel and twice the length of the calyx ; calyx- 
lobes 0 ovate, acuminate, ciliolate; corolla 9 lin. long, the lobes half 
the length of the tube.—(DC. Prod.) 
Hav.—Tenasserim. 
