Tabernaemontana grandiflora Jacq.

Stemmadenia grandiflora (Jacq.) Miers, Apoc
S. Am. 75. 1878.
Tabernaemontana grandijiora Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 14. 1760. Tabernaemontana litoralis H.B.K. Nov. Gen, & Sp. 3: 228. 1819.
Shrub or small tree, 2-5 m. tall, wholly glabrous; leaves membranaceous, obovate to oblanceolate-elliptic, 6-9 cm. long, 3-5 cm. broad, shortly and acutely subcaudateacuminate to obtusish, acutely cuneate to obtusish at the base, the petioles 5-7 mm. long; inflorescence bearing 2-9 yellowish flowers of medium size; pedicels ^7 mm. long; calyx-lobes imbricate, ovate to oblong-ovate, acute to obtusish, 10-15 mm. long, conspicuously foliaceous; corolla salverform, the tube 25-35 mm. long, about 3.5 mm. in diameter at the base, the lobes obliquely obovate, 12-18 mm. long, spreading; follicles obovoid-subreniform, shortly acuminate, 3-3.5 cm. long, 2-3 cm. broad, verrucose.
Type locaIvITy: [Cartagena, Colombia.]
Distribution: Sinaloa and Nayarit; Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama; also in northern