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‘TABERNEMONTANA amygdalifolia. 
Almond-leaved Tahernemontana. : 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Avoctnr&. Cal. 5-divisus, persistens. Cor. 1-petala, hypo- 
gyna, regularis, 5-loba, zstivatione imbricata, decidua. Stam. epipetala, 
laciniis limbi alterna. i. distincta. Anth. 2-loculares, longitudinalitér 
dehiscentes. Pollen granulosum, stigmati immediaté applicitum. Germina . 
2, v. 1, biloculare, in plurimis polyspermum. Styli 2, v. 1. Stigma 1, 
Fructus follicularis, capsularis, drupaceus, v. baccatus, duplex v. simplex. 
Semina sepissimé albuminosa. Embryo foliaceus. Plumula inconspicua, 
Arbores v. frutices sepe lactescentes. Folia opposita, nune verticillata, rard 
sparsa, integerrima ciliis glandulisve interpetiolaribus sepius instructa. Brown 
prod. 1. 465. 
Div. IT. Semina non comosa. Fructus bifollicularis. 
TABERNAISMONTANA. Cor. hypocrateriformis, limbo 5-partito. 
Stamina inclusa: Antheris sagittatis. Germina 2. Stylus filiformis: Stigma 
é dilataté base bifidum. Folliculi 2. Semina pulpd immersa. Arbuscule, 
Folia opposita. Stipule interpetiolares, infra adnate, apice solute. Cyma@ 
subdichotome. Calyx persistens. Brown loc. cit. 467. , 
T. amygdalifolia, foliis oppositis ovali-lanceolatis, staminibus tubum corolla 
superantibus. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 1245. 
Tabernxmontana amygdalifolia. Jacq. amer. 39. tad. 181. fig. 15. 
Cestrum nervosum. Mill. dict. 8... 33 (affirmante specimine archetypo in 
Herb. Banks. asservato.) 
Cestrum foliis lanceolatis oppositis nervis transversalibus pedunculis ramosis. 
Mill. dict. ed. '7. n. 3. 
The Cestrum nervosum of the eighth edition of Miller’s 
» Gardener’s Dictionary, appears never to have been taken up 
either as a synonym or separate species, in any other enume- 
ration of plants; and seems to have been entirely overlooked 
in all subsequent botanical works. We know however that it 
is of the present species, and that it has flowered with us, by 
Miller’s own specimen, gathered in the Chelsea Garden, and 
now preserved in the Banksian Herbarium. It does not 
appear in either edition of the Hortus Kewensis even by the 
present title, though it has-been cultivated in our collections 
for more than half a century. What plants there are of 
it in this country, we suspect, are scions of the one originally - 
received by Miller from Carthagena in South America, 
where Jacquin’s plant was also found. The drawing was 
taken at Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and Milne, of the Fulham 
nursery, where it-is cultivated in the hothouse. 
The following is the description of the plant, as given in 
the Gardener’s Dictionary. “It rises with a shrubby stalk 
