serrated leaves, generally faken in the gardens for Plumieri, 
is, in our opinion, quite distinct from Jacquin’s and Plu~ 
mier’s species; but may be the inermis of Miller, included 
by Willdenow in the synonymy of Plumieri. 
A shrub or small tree, from 6 to 15 feet high: branches 
long, flexile, obtusely quadrangular, ash-coloured, villous. 
Leaves opposite, subrhomboidly elliptic, acute, entire or 
nearly so, or obtusely and unequally serrated above the 
middle, (in the most entire indeed the edge is uneven and 
shows some vestige of indentation), wideset, from about an 
inch and half to two inches or more in length, obsoletely 
villous especially underneath, tapered towards the petiole: 
petiole short, villous. Flowers in panicled racemes;. ra~ 
cemelets oppositely axillary and terminal, from several- to 
many-flowered, reclining; pedicles filiform, stiffish, seat- 
tered, but generally somewhat paired, shorter than the 
flower, with a villous subulate bracte; the lower two of the 
terminal racemelets have generally two leaves for bractes 
at their base. Calyx infevior, tubular, persistent, downy, 
pentagonal, evenly 5-toothed, short, pointed, upright, about 
one third shorter than the tube of the corolla, the space be. 
tween the two angles at the back broader and flatter than 
that between the others. Corolla of a pale blueish lilac. 
colour, bilabiately hypocrateriform, downy on the outside: 
tube bent from the top of the calyx, narrow, flatter at the 
back, covered on the inside with viscidly headed hairs, orifice 
transversely broader: dimb half an inch over, slanted, five, 
cleft to below the middle, segments of one length, rounded 
at the end, and slightly eroded, the three of the upper lip of 
one colour, outspread, two side ones divaricate, elliptically 
obovate, middlemost rather broader and somewhat truncate: 
the two of the lower lip upright and spreading, contiguous, 
nearly twice narrower, obovately oblong, marked along the 
_mmiddle by a deep violet-coloured line, Stamens inclosed in 
the tube; filaments inserted at about the base of the curve 
of the tube, short, two longer, in the place of a fifth a glan- 
ularly capitate rudiment: anthers connivent, cream-co- 
Joured, flatly didymous. Germen smooth, roundish, en- 
tirely free from the calyx: style green, rather shorter than 
‘the calyx, bent, when seen through a magnifying glass, 
striated: stigma green, slantingly headed warty. 
The drawing was made at Messrs. Whitley's and Co,’s, 
