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9 lines broad, enclosing several seeds attached to the sutural margins by reddish pulp- 

 like funicles, in which they are half-imbedded. 



A drawing of this species, and an analysis of its flower and fruit, are shown in 

 Plate VII. A. 



2. Tabern^montana lanceolata, Linu. in Hort. Cliff. (1737) p. 76 (excl. syn.) ; Sp. Plant. (1753) 

 p. 210 (excl. syn.) ; Jacq. Amer. (1763) p. 38, tab. 175. fig. 13 (flos), excl. syn.; Lam. lUust. 

 tab. 170 (folium) . In Antilles : v. s. plantam archetyp. in herb. Cliffort. Mus. Brit, ex Cuba 

 (C. Wright 2948, inflore etfructu). 



This species has been confounded with the preceding from the time of Linnseus down- 

 wards ; but the two plants differ obviously in the shape and size of the leaves, their 

 venation, their inflorescence, and in their fruit. Wright's specimen perfectly accords 

 with Linnaeus's plant, so that no doubt can exist on the subject. This shows what little 

 attention was paid by Linnaeus, in his earlier days, to the exact definition of any species, 

 as in the present case he mixed in one three very different species — (1) citrifolia, 

 (2) lanceolata, (3) alternifolia (a Malay plant described by Rheede). Lamarck gives the 

 leaf of this species in his tab. 170; but the floral parts and seeds are copied from 

 Plunder's ' Genera.' 



This is a small tree 8 feet high, with smooth branchlets, having their axils 1^ in. 

 apart; the leaves are glabrous, subspathulately lanceolate, with a short obtuse acumen, 

 flat, entire, pale green above, sulcated along the midrib, with about 14 pairs of patent 

 immersed nerves suddenly conjoined within the margin, a little paler beneath, opake 

 yellowish, with prominent midrib and very fine straw-coloured nerves, the transversely 

 reticulated veins being immersed, 3-4| in. long, 1-1| in. broad, on semiterete, broadly 

 channelled petioles 2-4 lines long ; a lateral panicle, on a peduncle 1 in. long, subdivided 

 above into 2 branchlets 9 lines long, bearing alternate flowers on bracteolated pedicels 

 3 lines long ; sepals small, each with an inner multidentate scale ; tube of corolla 10 lines 

 long, slender in the middle, ventricose below the mouth, a little swollen at the base, 

 segments 5 lines long, obliquely oblong, sinistrorsely convoluted ; stamens fixed in the 

 constriction of the tube, anthers very slender, bluish, half-exserted ; disk adnate, sub- 

 5-l6bed in the margin, shorter than the 2 pointed oblong ovaries; follicles 2, often 

 solitary by abortion, oblong ovate, compressed, with a sharp recurved point at the 

 apex, rounded along the sutural margin, 1 in. long, 6 lines broad ; seeds not very nume- 

 rous, oval, striated on the dorsal face, deeply channelled on the ventral face, where they 

 are attached to the fleshy fimicle ; they are 3 lines long, 2 lines broad. 



A drawing of this species, and an analysis of its flower and fruit, are seen in 

 Plate VII. B. 



3. TaberNjEmontana neriifolia, Vahl, Eel. ii. 21 ; DC. Prodr. viii. 367. In Porto Rico et Venezuela : 

 V. s. in hb. Mus. Brit. Cumancoa et Maracaibo (Moritz 357, Sagot 391). 

 The very lanceolate leaves, slightly heterophyllous, are green above, with an opake 

 granulated surface, with about 20 pairs of short patent nerves, conjoined near the 

 margin, semi-immersed, and without veins, they are ochreously pallid beneath, opake, 

 minutely corrugulated, with slightly prominulent nerves and are veinless; they are 



