ON THE APOCINEjE. 



naked seeds. Rheede also describes his plant as 

 being a climber. The seeds of the Otaheite 

 plant, which forms a moderate-sized tree, are 

 distinctly ciliated ; but I am not certain that the 

 ciliae are so remarkably elongated at each ex- 

 tremity, as in the other species ; and it may, 

 therefore, be a connecting link between this 

 section of Apocineae, in which I have placed it, 

 and the nearly related genera Plumeria, Came- 

 raria, and Vinca. 



