This has been compared with authentic specimens of 
Nerium tinctorium of Roxburgh, communicated from the 
Botanic Garden, Calcutta, by Dr. Wallich, and found to 
agree with them in all respects. , 
Stem shrubby, somewhat twining. Leaves opposite, 
subsessile, ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, membranous, 
smooth on each side, green and opaque above, paler be-. 
neath, and netted with projecting veins. Cymes axillary, 
few-flowered, trichotomous, quite smooth. Pedicels round, 
green, slender. Bracts subulate. Sepals 5, ovate, trans- 
versely wrinkled, gibbous. Scales between the calyx and 
corolla very minute, subulate. Corolla white, smooth, 
hypocrateriform ; tube twice as short’as limb ; limb spread- 
ing, 5-parted ; segments linear, downy above, incuryed at 
end, at the base having as many fringed appendages con- 
nected by shorter filiform processes and forming a corona 3 
tube fleshy, honey bearing inside, half closed by the gibbous 
downy bases of the filaments. Stamens 5, alternate with 
the segments, inserted in the orifice. Filaments short, 
linear, incurved. Anthers subulate, acuminate, conniving 
in a cone much shorter than the segments of the corolla, 
sagittate at base, somewhat downy at back, and adhering 
-by the ciliated end to the fusiform stigma, which has a 
ring in its middle. Ovary smooth, ovate. Style filiform. 
‘Hypogynous scales none. — . aa 
