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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 Excerpt: ...tipped with the indurated, smooth, curved style. J. L.-i TABERNiEMONTANA densifldra. Close-flowered Taberncemontana. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nat. ord. Apocyne.e. TABERNJEMONTANA.--Supra, vol. 4. fol. 338. T. densiflora; foliis lanceolatis acuminatis approximatis nunc ternatis, cyma multiflora breve pedunculata, laciniis calycis bracteisque lineari-lanceolatis acutis, corollee limbo tubum subrequante, folliculis monospermis.--Wallich MSS. A curious new species, introduced in 1824 by the Honourable Court of Directors of the East India Company, by whom it was presented to the Horticultural Society, in whose Garden at Chiswick our drawing was made in June 1827. A tender stove plant, extremely different in habit from the common T. coronaria, of the agreeable perfume of which it is entirely destitute. Propagated by cuttings. Dr. Wallich has been so kind as to favour us with the following interesting account of this and the other Indian species; the greater part either wholly new, or now described for the first time. J. L. "I am in some doubt as to the part of India from which this pretty shrub was introduced into the Honourable Company's Botanic Garden at Calcutta. I suspect, however, that it was brought from Ceylon, as I have seen a specimen in the Herbarium of my friend Mr. Lindley, which was collected on that island by Mr. M'Rae. The following are the Bast Indian species of TaberniBmontana that have come under my own observation: --1. T. coronaria. Willi. This is a very common shrub in gardens all over India, both single and double. I have found it seemingly wild in the forests of Lower Nipal, about Hetounda, and at Singapore. 2. T. recurva. Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 20. T. gratissima. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. vol. 13. p. 1084. A native of the district of Chittagong i...