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Allamanda cathartica

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Allamanda cathartica L. [family APOCYNACEAE ]
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Entry for ALLAMANDA cathartica Linn. [family APOCYNACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 4, Part 1, page 24, (1904) Author: (By Otto Stapf.)
Names
ALLAMANDA cathartica Linn. [family APOCYNACEAE], Mant. 214. —Gærtn. De Fruct. t. 61; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 259; Bot. Mag. t. 338; A.DC. Prod. viii. 318; Muell. Arg. in Fl. Brasil. vi. i. 10; K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iv. ii. 128, fig. 49, E-G; and in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 315; Stapf in De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. Fl. Congo in Ann. Mus. Congo, Bot. sér. 2, i. fasc. i. 33; De Wild. & Durand, Reliq. Dewevr. in Ann. Mus. Congo, Bot. sér. 3, fasc. ii. 145. De Wild. Études Fl. Bas et Moyen Congo, i. 67.
ALLAMANDA Schottii [family APOCYNACEAE], Bot. Mag. t. 4351 (not of Pohl).
ALLAMANDA Aubletii Pohl [family APOCYNACEAE], Plant. Brasil. i. 75; Bot. Mag. t. 4411.
Orelia grandiflora Aubl. [family ], Guyan. i. 271, t. 106.
Information
A scantily branched shrub, with pubescent or glabrate spreading branches. Leaves obovate-anceolate, acutely acuminate, attenuate towards the base, 3–5 in. long, 1–1 2/3 in. broad, glossy above, glabrous or hairy along the midrib and sometimes also on the side-nerves below; secondary nerves about 15 on each side, very slender, spreading; petiole 1–3 lin. long. Cymes racemiform or panicled, glabrous or hispidulous; bracts deciduous; pedicels stout, 1 1/2–6 lin. long. Calyx 4–8 lin. long, quite glabrous, persistent; sepals lanceolate or lanceolate-oblong, acute to subobtuse. Corolla yellow; cylindric part of the tube and throat, each 2–2 1/2 in. long; lobes round, unequal, 3/4–1 lin. long; throat-scales fimbriate. Capsule ovoid-elliptic, 1 1/2 in. long, 1 1/4 in. broad. Seeds 4–5 lin. long, broadly winged.
Range
A native of tropical South America, cultivated and sometimes naturalised in various parts of the Old World.
Distribution
Congo Lower Guinea Leopoldville to Mombazi, Gillet, 2590. Boma, Dewèvre, 417!Zanzibar Mozamb. Dist. Stuhlmann, 636.

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