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PLUMERIA rubra. 
Red Plumeria. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNI4A. 
Nat. ord. ApocyNEx. Jussieu gen. 146. Div. I. Germen duplex. 
Fructus bifollicularis, Semina non papposa. 
PLUMERIA. Supré vol. 6. fol. 480. 
P. rubra, foliis ovato-oblongis, petiolis biglandulosis. inn. sp. pl. ed. 2.1. 
Plumeria rubra. Jacq. amer. 35. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n.1.  Curtis’s magaz. 
279. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2.70. Willd. sp. pl.1. 1242. Smith in Rees’s 
cyclop. in loco. 
Plumeria flore roseo odoratissimo. 
tab.10. Trew ehret. tab. 41. 
Plumeria arborescens, ramulis crassis, foliis oblongo-ovatis, petiolis big-" 
landulosis, floribus geminatis per spicasterminales. Browne jam. 181. 
Nerium arboreum folio maximo obtusiore, flore incarnato. Sloane jam. 154. 
hist. 2. 51. ¢. 185, 186. jig. 1. 1. 
Jasminum indicum. Merian surinam. ¢. 8. 
Catesby carol. 92. tab. 92. Ehret pict. 
“Leaves ovate-oblong. Flower-stalks downy, even. 
“ Native of Jamaica and Surinam, where it is cultivated 
“on account of the beauty and fragrance of its blossoms, 
“which come out before the leaves. Merian says, it is 
“ readily propagated and grows rapidly. In our stoves it 
“blossoms in July and August. The stem is thick and 
“ fleshy, forming a tall shrub, or small tree, in the course 
** of a few months, and abounding with milky juice. Leaves 
** deciduous, scattered, stalked, a span long and one and a 
“half or two inches wide, oblong, somewhat ovate or el- 
“ liptical, pointed, entire, smooth, with one thick rib, and 
“‘ many transverse veins, connected by a submarginal line. 
“We find no traces of the two glands on the footstalks 
“mentioned by Linneeus, after Brown. The flowers are 
“ numerous, in a terminal cymose panicle, whose stalks, in 
* all the specimens we have seen, are densely downy. The 
* corolla expands near two inches, and is rose-coloured 
* with a yellow mouth.” 
‘The French name of the genus, Frangipanier, is ra- 
*‘ ther remarkable. It is said to allude to its fragrance, 
“ Frangipani being a sort of perfume, so called in France 
