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oblong, sinistrorsely convoluted ; stamens originating in a pilose ring at the contraction 

 of the tube ; anthers slender, of a bluish colour, exserted at the apex ; a short 5-lobed 

 disk ; 2 free, striated, oblong, pointed ovaries ; style slender ; clavuncle thickish, deeply 

 5-grooved. 



6. TabernjEmontana Acapulcensis, nob. : TaberrKBWontana amygdaleafolia, Seem.(iion Jacq.) Bot. Her. 



p. 167 : ramulis tenuibus, dichotomis, striolatis : foliis lanceolatis vel oblongo-lanceolatis, imo sub- 

 cimeatis, apice in acumen longiusculum atteniiatis, marginibus crenato-sinuatis, submembranaceis^ 

 supra leete viridibus, opacis, minute granulatis, obsolete pilosulis, nervis divergentibus immersis^ 

 subtus flavide opacis, granulatis, nervis tenuibus rufescentibus pauUo prominulis ; petiolo semitereti, 

 limbo 12plo breviore : panicula later ali folio 2-3plo breviore ; pedunculo tenui^ folio 3plo breviore, sub 

 4-flora; pedicellis tenuibus, 4plo brevioribus, imo bracteolatis ; sepalis parvis, obtuse ovatis, imbricatis, 

 intus squamulis 2 lanceolatis imo munitis ; coroUie tubo anguste cyliadrico, supra medium paullo am- 

 pliore, segmentis oblique oblongis, tubo fere sequilongis, in sestivatione simpliciter sinistrorsum 

 convolutis; staminibus in constrictioue tubi insertis, antheris tenuibus semiexsertis ; disco tenui, 

 5-lobo, ovariis 2 oblongis striatis subadnato et triplo breviore; stylo tenui; clavuncula incrassata; 

 stigmatis lobis tenuibus subulatis. In Mexico : v. s. in hb. Mus. Brit. Veraguas (Seemann 1321), 

 Acapulco (Pavon), Tebuantepec (Schott 432), Columbia (Cuming 1295). 



A shrub 8 feet high, with slender branches, called "jasmin del monte," because of its 

 odoriferous flowers. The leaves are -g-S^^ in. long, 5-IJ in. broad, on petioles 2-3 lines 

 long; the panicles are IJ-S in. long, on slender peduncles 6-9 lines long; pedicels 

 2-3 Knes long ; sepals f line long ; tube of corolla 7 lines long, segments 5 lines long. 



7. Tabernjemontana laurifolia, Linn. Sp. 308 (non Ker) ; Miller, Diet. no. 3; Poiret, Diet. vii. 528; 



Lunan, Jam. ii. 222 ; A. DC. I. c. p. 363 ; Jacq. Amer. 39 ; Willd. Sp. i. 1244 ; Grisebach, PI. Br. 

 W. Ind. p. 409 : Tabern<Bmontana frutescens, Brown, Jam. 181 : Neriwm arboreum, Sloane, Jam. 154; 

 Hist. Jam. ii. 62, tab. 186. fig. 2. In Antilles : v. s. in hb. Mus. Brit. Jamaica (Sloane). 



A well-known species, but insufficiently described. Sloane's specimen agrees well 

 with his drawing (tab. 186). Lunan describes it as a tree 15 feet high, with a trunk as 

 thick as a man's leg, covered by a smooth whitish bark, and having tortuous branches ; 

 its branchlets are curved, with axils IJ in. apart ; leaves patently opposite along the 

 terminal branchlets, oval-oblong, subacute at the base, suddenly contracted at the apex 

 into a short acumen, lucidly green above, entire on the margins, with several patently 

 divaricating nerves, 4-5 in. long, 2-2f in. broad, on straight petioles 1-1^ in. long; 

 panicles lateral, 1-lJ in. long, branching from the base, and bearing several approxi- 

 mated yellow odoriferous flowers, on pedicels 8 lines long ; sepals ovate, rounded, mem- 

 branaceous, veined, imbricated, each having 3 short inner lanceolate scales; tube of 

 corolla narrowly cylindrical, a little wider above, 6-8 lines long; its segments, 5-6 lines 

 long, are obliquely ovate and expanded horizontally on one side, and simply convoluted' 

 sinistrorsely in gestivation ; the stamens are inserted in the upper portion of the tube ; 

 anthers cuspidate at the apex, extending a little beyond the mouth; a semi-5-lobed' 

 disk, f shorter than the 2 free, adpressed, striated ovaries ; style slender, surmounted by 

 a thickened, deeply 5-sulcate clavuncle, having a membranaceous expansion at its base, 



