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throat naked : stapiens inclosed, inserted ifi. the bottom of the 

 tube : anthers sagittate : ovaries ti>fd : style wanting : stigmsi 

 dilated, S-cornered; ending in a .coijical point : hypogyndus scs^les 

 five : follicles lancieolate; horizontal. — Twining shrubs : leayea 

 opposite : corymbs iliterpetiolar, aliiio^t sessDej ^erf shoi-t. ' 



(1) C. BpcHANANi. (Ro'^m.^ Sfihidi,) 



Ident. R. & S. Sjst. IV. g. 409.— Dalz. ;poimb. fldr. p.US. 



Syn. C. reticulata, Wall. — Nerium reticulatumj Roxh. fiori 

 Ind. II. p. 9. 



Engrav. "Wight's Icon. t. 494.— Rlieede Mai. IX. t. 11. 



Spec. Char. Milky shrub, climbingi Smooth : leates short- 

 |>etioled, btoadrelliptio, with a short subiriate pointt brighl:, gr«eii 

 ibovCi ■v(!hiti8h and gla^tJous belowj transversely vpiped : eoiymbs 

 aiillaryj short- peduncled : flowers subsessile, pale yellow. 



Coromandel and Western Coast. Bengal. .' ^Flowering in the' 

 rainy season. 



{^5 C. GRANDIFLOKA. {R. T^.) 



lient. Wjgl^t's Idon. vol. III. & t. 831. 



Spec. Char- Le.^ves from py^.l tp obovate, spathtilaite : 6^'''?^^ 

 axillary, (^ififuse, longer than the leaves: corolla funnel-shaped^ 

 throat furnished tnth five inflexed capitate processes : anthers acu- 

 minatej 5, hypogynous, emargihate ; scales alteriiat^ with tte sta- 

 mens ; follicles divapi^ate^ , 



fialaghaut Mountains neat Kaggary. 



(3) C. EtBGANS. (iValty 



Mara. Wall. Cat. No. 1639.— IQps. X. c. 



Sp£c. Char. : jteaves oblong, mucronate^ glaucous beneath,- 

 somewhat cordate at th^ base : peduncles terminal, pUnicled-: flbw-t' 

 ers pure white, Very' fragrant; ' 



Silhet. Assam. . Flowering in February and Wtarch. 



GENUS XXXVIll FREEEA. 



'^^lT7.~i ~['' "_ ''■■ " _:'^j 



Pentandria Disynia. Sex-. Sysi: 



'■- ■ '• -'-"' i."-"c '.-,-. ';„.-';;:*.'i. 



Deriv. . Nariied in honor of Sir Bartle Frere, Governor of Bom- 

 bay, a great jwdfiiotei: of seientifio pesestrbk. ' '''' ■ '' 



Gb^. Ch^r. Calyx S^parted : corolla rfabrotis, SJobed, lobesr 

 broadly triangular J" iflar^A fimbriated, sims small, acttte between 

 tiie lobes : stamitiat eorona gamophyllotis, 10-lobed io a single 



