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Stem sub-arboreous. Leaves oblong, opposite, pointed, 

 most entire, smooth, petioles short, slender, round, smooth, 

 spreading. Stipules none. Corymbs terminal, trichotom- 

 ous, compact, pedicels proper, very short, erect. Flowers 

 small of a greenish white. Calyx Perianth very small, pitcher 

 form, five parted, the segments lanceolate, erect, deciduous. 

 Corolla, one petaled, contorted, intundibuliform; tube cylindri- 

 cal, erect, bellied at the base and throat, limb five cleft, segments 

 lanceolate, erect. Nectary a glandular circle, surrounding the 

 base of the germ. Stam : Filaments five, very short, erect, in 

 the throat of the tube, anthers oblong, erect, within the 

 throat. Pist: Germ ovate, compressed, furrowed, easily parted 

 into two, style thread form, the length of the tube; stigma 

 headed, embraced by the anthers. Berries two, obovate, 

 smooth, sub-bilocular ; on pedicels very short, opposite, 

 horizontal. Seeds two, ovate, within fiat, without convex. 



Found near the Honble. Company's spice plantation. 

 Flowers in June. 



Gardenia. 



Gardenia, florida. Cultivated in gardens. 



Nerium. 



Ncrium sinense, H. (Strophanthus sp.). 



Dichotomous ; leaves lance-ovate ; peduncles from the 

 splitting of the branches, bifid ; two or three flowered ; seg- 

 ments of the corolla lanceolate. Stem shrubby. Branches 

 dichotomous, spreading. Leaves opposite, short petioled, 

 lance-ovate, pointed, smooth. Peduncles from the splitting 

 of the branches, bifid, two or three flowered. Flowers large, 

 of a deep orange colour. Calyx perianth one leafed, five parted ; 

 segments lanceolate, acute, erect. Corolla one petaled, contort- 

 ed, salver shape ; tube bellied, five furrowed; limb five cleft; 

 segments lanceolate, very long, spreading. Nectary a glandular 

 circle, starred, crowning the tube ; ten toothed, the alternate 

 teeth longer and growing to the segments of the corolla. 

 Stam : filaments five, awl-shape, very short, in the base of the 



R. A. Soc, No. 53, 1909. 



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