By Mr. John Lindley. 



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the late Mr. John Potts. Propagated, though with much 

 difficulty, by cuttings ; and requires to be planted in light 

 sandy loam with a little peat. 



X. Tabernaemontana gratissima. 



T. foliis oblongo-lanceolatis undulatis glabris, dentibus calycinis ovatis 

 acutis, corollae laciniis convexis difformibus crenulatis, cymis divaricatis, floribus 



In many respects this resembles T. coronaria of Roxburgh, 

 from which it is distinguished by the form of the teeth of the 

 calyx, and by the direction of the cymes, which are not erect, 

 but recurved, and by the form of the segments of the limb, 

 which are not flat, as in T. coronaria, but convex, much 

 twisted, and exceedingly uneven at the margin. In some of 

 these particulars it may be compared to the T. recurva of the 

 Hortus Bengalensis, but that plant is to be readily known by 

 its large leafy calyx, smaller flowers, and more robust stature, 

 and, I believe, is not yet in this country. The plant in the 

 possession of the Society was imported in 1824 by the Ho- 

 nourable Court of Directors of the East India Company, and 

 presented by them then to the Society. When in flower, it 

 diffuses a delicious fragrance. 



A lactescent shrub, requiring the protection of the stove, 

 where it has attained the height of three feet. The stem is 

 much branched, and covered with a cinereous spotted bark. 

 Young branches round, dark-green, spotted here and there 

 with ash-colour. Leaves membranous, stalked, oval, smooth, 

 dark-green above, paler and veiny beneath. Cymes growing 

 by pairs from between the petioles, almost horizontal, with 

 a stalk about as long as the petiole, quite smooth, biternate. 

 Pedicels short, thick. Calyx five-toothed, with ovate-Ian- 



