Nerium indicum subsp. indicum

Nerium oleander var. indicum (Miller) Degener & Greenwell

Nerium oleander var. indicum (Miller) Degener & Green-well, Flora Hawaiiensis, 305; N.o.i. 7/25/’52.

Nerium indicum Miller, Gard. Dict., ed. 8, 1768.

Nerium odorum Aiton, Hort. Kew. 1:297, 1789.—F. Brown, Flora 235, 1935.

Flowers very fragrant, corollas usually double, the segments somewhat mucronate, usually a rich rose color, rarely white.

SPECIMENS SEEN.—Nukuhiva I.: s.l., Brown 950 (BISH) possibly this, but indeterminable; Taiohae village, bay front, Decker 2147 (US) (flower rose).

Uahuka I.: Vaipae’e village, school yard, Decker 1691 (US) (corolla rose).

Ochrosia Jussieu

Ochrosia Jussieu, Gen. Pl., 144, 1789.

Shrubs and small trees, lactiferous; leaves whorled; cymes axillary or apparently terminal, several times dichotomous or trichotomous, branches may become elongate, zig-zag; corolla salverform, unappendaged, in bud slightly to strongly contorted; fruit of 2 divergent drupes, at least stones dorsiventrally compressed, surface smooth or with large cavities.

A large Indo-Pacific genus, mainly insular, extending from the Mascarenes to the Marquesas and Hawaii, with two endemic species in the Marquesas.