Neri'U'm-'] xcrv. apoctnacej;. (J. D. Hooker.) G55 



subglobose. Follicles elongate, cylindrio, straight, hard, appressed. Seedif 

 oblong, villous, coma terminal caducous, albumen fleshy; cotyledons flat, 

 thickish, radicle superior. — Disteib. Species 2 or 3, Mediterranean region, 

 N. Asian and Japanese. 



XT. odorum, Soland. in Sort. Kew. ed.i. v. i. 297; flowers scented, ap- 

 pendages of the corolla cleft into 4-7 linear segments, spurs of anthers linear 

 twice as long as the cells. Boies. Fl. Orient, iv. 43 ; A. I)C. Frodr. viii. 420 ; 

 Roxh. Fl. Ind. ii., 2 ; Brandis For. Fl. 328 ; Qrah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 114 ; Targ. 

 Tozz. Sap. 28, 29, t. S ; Wall. Cat. 1624 ; Bot.Mag. 1799, 2032 ; Bot. Reg. t. 

 74 {fl. double). N. odoratum, Lamh. Fncycl. iii. 456. N. latifolium and N. 

 indicum, Mill I. c. ed. 8. — Rheede Hort. Med. ix. t. 1, 2. 



Western Himalaya; from Nipal westwards, ascending to 6500 ft. in Murree. — 

 Cestteal India. Scind. — Distrib. Affgbanistan, Japan. 



A large erect stout shrub. Leaves 4-6 in., linear-lanceolate, thickly coriaceous, 

 acuminate, midrib very stout ; nerves numerous, slender, horizontal ; petiole very 

 short. Flowers IJ in. diam., sweet-scented, rose white or yellow. Sepals subulate- 

 lanceolate. Follicles 6-9 in. — Very similar to and perhaps only a variety of the com- 

 mon N. Oleander of the Mediterranean region, which extends eastwards to Persia. 



25. STXtOFKANTKVS, DC. 



Small trees or shrubs, often climbing. Leaves opposite. Flowers usually 

 large, in terminal cymes. Calyx 5-partite, glandular within. Cm-olla funnel- 

 shaped, tube short, throat large, oampanulate, with 10 free or connate scales ; 

 lobes overlapping to the right, produced into long or short tails, rarely ovate acute. 

 Stamais at the top of the tube, included, filaments short ; anthers sagittate, 

 tips filiform, conniving around and adhering to the stigma, cells spurred at the 

 base. Disc 0. Carpels 2, distinct, many-ovuled, glabrous; style filiform, 

 rugose, with cellular papillse, tip dilated, stigma columnar or conical, simple or 

 2-fid. Follicles oblong or elongate, hard, spreading (parallel in 8. JacMamus). 

 Seeds compressed, fusiform, narrowed into a feathery tail, or with a sessUecoma, 

 base with a deciduous tuft of hairs. — Disieib, Species about 18, tropical 

 Asiatic and African, and 1 S. African. 



* Lobes of the corolla exceeding the throat in length. 



1. S. dichotomus, DC. in BvZl. Soo. Phil. iii. 123; glabrous, leaves 

 elliptic-oblong or obovate obtuse acute or apiculate, cymes few-fld., tails of 

 corollar-lobes 5-7 in. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 417; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 441. 

 S. scandens, Roem. 8r Sch. Syst. iv. 412. L. longieaudatus and Griifithii, Wight 

 Ic. t. 1299, 1300 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 191. S. pentaphyllus, Ch-iff. Notul. iv. 78. 

 S. caudatus, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 257. S. Horsfieldianus, Miquel 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 442. Echites caudata, Burm. Fl. Ind. 68, t. 26. Nerium cau- 

 datum, Lamk. Diet. N. scandens, Lour. Fl. Coch, i. 143 {ex A. DC). 



Tenassbrim (Kwrs). Malacca; Griffith, Maingay. Sinoapobb and Penano 

 (drawings). — Distrib. Java. 



An erect shrub. ^raracAes stout ; bark dark, dotted with lenticels. Leaves 3-5^ 

 by 2-3 in., rather coriaceous, glossy above ; nerves 6-8 pairs, spreading, arching and 

 joining far within the margin ; petiole i in. Cymes much shorter than the leaves, 

 dichotomous. Sepals subulate from an ovate base. Corolla-tube and throat f-1 in. 

 long, whitish, tails purple ; scales cleft to the base. Anther-tips very long and slender. 

 Follicles not seen (as taken from a drawing, very large, divergent, 8 by 2 in., broadest 

 at the very base where united, tapering to a broad rounded point, terete smooth green). 



2. S. Wallicllii, A. DC. Prodr. viii. 418; glabrous, leaves elliptic 

 oblong or obovateacuminate cuspidate or obtuse, cymes many-fld., tails of corolla- 



