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ALLAMANDA SCHOTTII. 
ALL AMANDA SCHOTTII. 
Nat. Order. — Apocynace^. 
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Generic Character. — Allamanda, LinniEus. — Calyx five- 
parted. Corolla hypogynous, funnel-shaped, the tube cylindri- 
cal, the throat furnished with five ciliated scales, the limb 
hell-shaped, large, with five obtuse slightly unequal lobes. 
Stamens five, inserted in the throat of the corolla, included; 
anthers arrow-shaped, sub-sessile, connivent. Ovary one- 
celled, compressed. Ovules numerous on a placenta surround- 
ing the margins, pendulous from a longish funiculus. Capsule 
leathery, roundish-elliptical, lenticular-compressed, spiny, one- 
celled, longitudinally two-valved. Seeds numerous, attached 
by a vertical funiculus, pendulous from the margins of the 
valves, at length imbricated, rather compressed, surrounded by 
a broad membranous wing. Embryo straight, within spiny 
cartilaginous albumen ; cotyledons foliaceous, ovate-cordate, 
radicle linear-acuminate, centrifugal. — Erector climbing shrubs 
or under-shrubs from tropical America ; leaves in whorls ; 
peduncles terminal and intcrpetiolar many-flowered, flowers 
showy, yellow.— [Endlir.her Gen. Plant., t. 3383.) 
Allamanda Scuottii, Pohl. — Schott's Allamanda. — Branches 
slightly hairy ; leaves ternate or quaternate, oblong, acuminate, 
narrowed at the base, sessile, glabrous, glands minute, acute ; 
peduncles and calyxes glabrous ; lobes of the calyx lanceolate 
acuminate ; the funnel-shaped throat of the corolla longer than 
the constricted part of the tube ; lobes rounded, obliquely one- 
toothed. 
Syn. — All. Schottii, Pohl, brasil., fig. 58. A. brasiliensis, 
Schott. ; A. cathartica, Schrdder in Golt. Anz. ; A. neriifolia 
of the gardens. 
BESCHIPTION. — A stiff erect shrub with stout branches, very slightly hairy ; the leaves in 
threes and fours, or occasionally opposite above ; oblong-lanceolate, acuminated at the upper 
end, narrowed at the base, sessile, glabrous above, but with hairs on the veins beneath ; glands 
minute, acute. Peduncles and calyxes almost glabrous. Lobes of the calyx lanceolate, acuminate. 
The funnel-shaped throat of the corolla longer than the narrow tube, lobes rounded, oblique, 
with one tooth near the summit. 
History, &c. — The present plant appears undoubtedly the A. Schottii of Pohl, but is different 
from the plant figured under that name in the Botanical Magazine (4351). Our plant is more 
shrub-like in its habit of growth, the leaves appear rather broader, more lanceolate ; the flowers 
are much smaller, but they agree more closely with the original description, in the comparative 
lengths of the throat and narrow tube. Several plants have been sent to us under different 
names to assist in the elucidation of the species of this genus, but we cannot at present give the 
results of our observations, since they are imperfect. It may be mentioned, however, that of 
the Allamandas shown at the July fete of the Royal Botanic Society this year, that sent us as 
"A. Schottii, from Mr. Pince," was the A. Aubletii of the Botanical Magazine, synonymous, 
according to De Candolle, with A. cathartica of Linnaeus and Linnmi of Pohl; a plant called 
A. cathartica, stated to be commonly shown as Aubletii, was the same. The "A. Schottii from 
Mr. Henderson" was the^-L Schottii of the Botanical Magazine, which appears to us to be merely 
a variety of Tohl's plant. A. Aubletii is readily known by its obovate and suddenly acuminate 
loaves. The plant shown as A. grandiflora is quite distinct. — A. H. 
Our figure was made from a beautiful specimen communicated by Messrs. Lucombe, 
Pince, & Co., of the Exeter Nursery. The plant is remarkably free in producing its flowers, 
blooming onwards for several months, which compensates for the comparative smallness of the 
flowers, and renders it a most desirable addition to our stove shrubs. We hope shortly to bo 
able to explain Mr. Pince's mode of culture, which must have been most successful, as was 
indeed evident from the fine specimen sent to us, and to which the size of our plate scarcely 
allows us to do justice. We may add that, although Mr. Ilenfrcy identifies in this A. neriifolia 
of the gardens, the true -/. Schottii of Pohl, and considers that figured by Sir W. Honker, 
under the name of A. Schottii in the Botanical Jfagazine, as a probable variety in a botanical 
sense, the two plants arc perfectly distinct for all garden purposes, ours having much smaller 
flowers, more copiously and continued])' produced, and an entirely different habit from Sir AY. 
Hooker's plant, fine samples of which have also been sent to us from the Exeter nursery. With 
the exception of A. grandiflora the present is the most distinct of all the forms in cultiva- 
tion. — M. 
Cultoeb. — Few families of stove plants are more deserving of extensive cultivation than 
the one under notice, for, though the flowers are mostly of a colour, they arc so noble that 
every person must admire them. Our present subject emanated from (lie continent, being firsl 
brought into notice by Mr. E. G. Henderson of the Wellington Road Nursery, and it is 
remarkable as flowering profusely in a very dwarf state, and, with proper bent, throughout the 
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