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TABERNAZMONTANA eratissima. 
Fragrant Taberneémontana. 
PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ArocynExR. 
TABERNAEMONTANA. © Supra, vol. 4. fol. 338. 
T. gratissima ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis undulatis glabris, dentibus calycinis 
ovatis acutis, corollc laciniis convexis difformibus crenulatis, cymis diva- 
ricatis, floribus cernuis. Lindley in Trans. Hort. Soc. vol. vii. part 1. 
Frutex lactescens, in caldario tripedalis, ad apicem ramosus, cortice 
cinereo maculato. Ramuli teretes, atro-virides, cinereo sparse maculati. 
Folia rudimento ligule in axilld, glabra, petiolata, ovalia, acuminata, inte- 
gerrima, supra atro-viridia, subtus pallidiora, venosa. Cymi semper gemini, 
basi connate, intrapetiolares, fere horizontales, petiolt longrtudine, glaberrimi, 
biternati. Pedicelli breves, crassi. Calyx parvus, 5-dentatus, laciniis ovato- 
lanceolatis, embricatis, integris. Corolla albo-lutescens, fragrantissima, hypo- 
cratertformis, tubo cylindrico versis apicem pro staminibus ventricoso, limbo 
tubo pauld breviore, maxime contorto, laciniis oblongis, convexis, margine 
undulatis. Tubus incoronatus, ad faucem.carnosus, pauld constrictus, intis 
glaber. Stamina jilamentis pilosis parieti tubi adnatis; anthere libere, 
oblonge, acute: loculis linearibus, connéctivo crasso carnoso. Pollen album, 
sphericum. Ovarium superum, subrotundum, bilobum, acuminatum, disco 
nullo, carnosum, biloculare, ovulis omnind in -substantid carnosdé reconditis. 
Stylus bast bulbosus bipartitus, ultra simplex filiformis. Stigma bilobum, in 
cyatho capitato carnoso insidens. 
The following extract from the Transactions of the Hor- 
ticultural Society, vol. vii. part 1. contains all that is 
known to us of this plant. 
“‘ In many respects this resembles T. coronaria of Rox- 
burgh, 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 seg- 
ments of the limb, which are not flat, as in T. coronaria, 
but convex, much twisted, and exceedingly uneven at the 
