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NERIUM odorum. £. Fi 
Double sweet-scented Rosebay or Oleander. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. — é 
_NERIUM, Conrorra.. (Cal. 5-partitus, parvus, persistens. Cor. 
inféra,) hypocrateriformis. Faux coronata squamis 5, divisis. Limbi- 
ldciniis inewquilateris, ecaudatis. Fil. medio tubo inserta. Auth.’ (con-. 
miverites) savittate, aristat#, medio stigmati cohwrentes. Germ. @. 
Stylus 1, filiformis, apice dilatato. Stigma obtusum (orbiculo lusidens, 
Juss.) Sguama nulla hypogyne ...... denticuliin basi calycis, extra, 
corollam. Jolliculi erecti cylindracei, (longé acuminati. Juss.). . Sem. 
extremitate superior! comosa. frutices erecti. Folia terna, elongata, 
coriacea, venis numérosis, parallelis, Brown asclep. 71; et in Hort. 
Kew. ed. 2.2. 67. : 
N. odorum, foliis lineari-lanceolatis ternis subtis costatis, laciniis caly- 
cinis erectis, squamis faucis/multipartitis, laciniis filiformibus. _Wid/d.. 
sp. pl. 1.1235... eee 
Nerium odorum. . Hort. Kew. 1. 297. ed..2. 2. 67. 
N. odoratum. Lamarck. envyc. 3. 436. 
N. Oleander. Lour. cochin. 1V5. 
N. indicum. Mill. dict. ed. 8..n. 2: 
Nerium. g.. Hort. cliff. 76. on bee eS 
N. indicum angustifoliam, floribus odoratis simplicibus. Herm. lugdb. 
447. t. 448: ‘ age’ is 
Oleander sinicus; Ruimph. amb. auct. c. 23. t. 16.f. 1. 
Tsjovanna areli. Rheed. mal. 9. 1. t 1. 
(8) foliis latioribus, floribus plenis; a ‘ 
Nerium latifolium. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 3. 
Nerium: 2 Hort. cliff 76: GEIS 4 
N. latifolium floribus plenis‘odoratis. Herm. lugdb. 447.'t. 449. 
Belutta areli:, Rheed, mal..9. 3.0.2 nS SE Saree 
Arbuscula vic ungudm aliitutidinem orgyalem excedens ; faciem ex nobis. 
uodammads vimincam pre’ se ferens. Folia lineari-lanceolata, 4-6 uncialia, 
titudine minis semunciali ad uncialem: petiolus crassus, curtus. Flores 
terminales, ‘bracteolati, multi, laxe cymoso-paniculati, sesquiunciales ultrave. 
we ptdwee ss d, 
Linnzus had included in Nertum Oleander the present 
species from the East Indies, together with that of the South 
of Europe and the Levant. They were first separated in 
the former edition of the Hortus Kewensis, the present be- 
ing distinguished by having the segments of the calyx up- 
right, and the scales at the mouth of the tube multifariously 
parted and linear. Besides these marks, its foliage is gene~ 
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