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Mag. 1919. — A large climbing shrub, with opposite leaves, the 

 midrib of which is generally of a reddish colour, having terminal 

 panicles of exquisitely fragrant flowers. Gardens Bombay and 

 Hewra, from Calcutta seed, 



BEAUMONTIA, Wall., Pentandria Monogynia. Named frotn 

 Mrs. Beaumont, of Bretton Hall, Yorkshire. 



2. B Grandiflora. — Native of Nepaul ; a gigantic climber, 

 with lon^ showy white flowers, and brown thick seed-vessels, 

 7 to 8 inches in length. Gardens Hewra, Parell, Dapoorie. 



NERIUM, Pentandria Monogynia. From neros, wet(?). 



3. N Obesum. — Native of Arabia ; leaves entire, cross-veined, 

 deciduous and succeeded by a few large red flowers on the ends of 

 the branchlets. This species is distinguishable by the immense 

 size of the root, which appears half above ground. Gardens Parell, 

 Sewree, Dapoorie ; plant received from Aden. 



STROPHANTHUS, R. Br., Pentandria Monogynia. From 

 stropho, twisted ; and anthos, a flower. The segments of the 

 corolla are long and twisted. 



4. S DichotoMds, Don's nyst. 4, p 85 ; Nerium caudatum, 

 Roxb. Fl. 2, p 9; Bot. Reg. i. 469 ; Burm. Ind. t. 26.— A chmber 

 of considerable extent, with long appendices to the laminee of the 

 corolla, red and white. Native of China. 



5. S Laueifolius (?), DC, Disfontain's Ann. Mus. 1, p 410, f. 

 27.— A strong climber with opposite whorled, shining, ovate, blunt 

 leaves and axillary flowers, red and white. Native of Sierra 

 Leone. Garden Hewra. 



6. RotrpELLiA Grata, Strophanthus stanleyanus, Bot. Mag. 

 4466. — A climbing shrub, with large broad leaves, and a large rose- 

 coloured flower, with ample tube surmounted by processes, as in 

 Nerium. The appendices to the lacinise of the corolla are very 

 short. Gardens Hewra, Dapoorie, Parell, and Sewree. 



7. Alstonia Venenata, Don's syst. 4, p 87. — Leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate, cross-veined ; flowers small, white ; follicles slender. It 

 is believed that this is the Spatulata noted under 873 of 1st 

 edition of this book {vide R. Br. Mem. Soc. Wern. 1, p 751). 



PLUMERIA, Pentandria Monogynia. Named after Plumier, 

 a celebrated French Botanist. 



8. P AcuTiFOLiA, P acuminata, Roxb. Fl. 2, p 20 ; Rumph. 

 Amb. 4, t. 38; Bot. Reg. t. 114.— The " Khair Chumpa," of 

 Forbes' Oriental Memoirs ; having blunt truncate branches, and 

 flowers white and yellow, delightfully fragrant. Abounds in viscid 

 juice, which may afford an inferior caoutchouc. We have neVer 

 Been this tree in seed ; it is a native of the Eastern Islands. 



