The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 10 / Or, Flower-Garden Displayed

by William Curtis

Allamanda Cathartica. Willow-Leav'd Allamanda.

Class and Order.

Pentandria Monogynia.

Generic Character.

Contorta. Caps. lenticularis erecta echinata 1-locularis polysperma. Semina bractæata.

Specific Character and Synonyms.

ALLAMANDA cathartica. Linn. Mant. p. 214. Suppl. p. 165. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 252. Ait. Kew. V. 3. p. 489.

ORELIA grandiflora. Aubl. Guian. p. 271. t. 106.

N^o. 338

This beautiful stove plant (a native of Cayenne and Guiana, where it is said to grow by the sides of rivers) was introduced to this country in 1785, by Baron Hake[3]; it has since flowered in many of our collections, usually in June and July.