Tabernaemontana alba Mill.

Tabernaemontana chrysocarpa Blake, Contr. Gray
Herb. 52: 81. 1917.
Tabernaemontana amblyblasta Blake, Contr. U. S, Nat. Herb. 24: 18. 1922.
Small tree or shrub, 3-10 ra. tall, wholly glabrous; leaves firmly membranaceous to subcoriaceous, obovate to oblanceolate-elliptic, 2.5-25 cm. long, 1-9 cm. broad, obtuse to shortly and very obtusely subcaudateacuminate, acutely cuneate at the base, the petioles 6-25 mm. long; inflorescence subcorymbose, usually very lax and predominantly equaling or surpassing the subtending leaves, bearing numerous yellowish-white flowers of mediimi size, the internodes relatively elongate; pedicels 7-15 mm. long; calyx-lobes broadly ovate, obtuse, 18-23 mm. long, closely imbricate; corolla salverform, the tube 6-9 mm. long, about 2 mm. in diameter and not inflated at the base, slightly constricted at the insertion of the stamens, the lobes oblong-dolabriform, obtuse, 10-12 mm. long, spreading; stamens inserted in the upper third of the corolla-tube, the anthers margined with bluish-green, barely included or the very tips slightly exserted, ovary surrounded at the base by a low, adnate, annular nectary; follicles ovoid-subreniform, 2-2.5 cm. long, 1.5-2 cm. broad, obtuse or with a very inconspicuous acumen, essentially smooth.
Type I.OCALITY: Near Manatee Lagoon, British Honduras.
Distribution: Oaxaca; British Honduras, Guatemala, and Honduras; Costa Rica and Panama.