Tabernaemontana divaricata (L.) R.Br. ex Roem. & Schult.

Shrub or small tree to 3 m. Branches glabrous. Leaves: petiole 3-10 mm long; blade thin, elliptic, 4-15.2 by 1.7-8 cm, 2-4 times as long as wide, apex acuminate, base cuneate, glabrous above and beneath, 5-15 pairs of secondary veins, curved ascending, tertiary venation obscure. Inflorescence 5-18 cm long; peduncle 1.3-8 cm long, glabrous; pedicels 3-20 mm long, glabrous. Sepals ovate, 2-5 by 1-2.5 mm, 1.3-2.4 times as long as wide, apex mostly obtuse, more rarely acute, glabrous, sparsely ciliate or not. Corolla double in some cultivated plants; 21-31 mm long in mature bud with an ovoid head which is 0.23-0.41 of bud length, apex acute; tube not or slightly twisted, 14-26 mm long, 0.8-1.4 times as long as lobes, 7-10 times as long as sepals; lobes 8-26 by 7-20 mm, 1-2.4 times as long as wide, obovate, rounded; glabrous outside, pubescent inside for up to 3 mm around and below the stamen insertion. Stamens inserted in bottom half or around middle of corolla tube (the cultivated specimens tend to have them higher); anthers 2.6-3.3 by 0.7-0.9 mm. Ovaries 1.5-2 mm long; style and style head 4.3-14 mm long. Fruit obliquely ellipsoid, sometimes torulose, longitudinally ridged, 2.2-7 by 0.6-1.1 cm, apex acuminate, 2-10-seeded. Seeds obliquely ellipsoid with longitudinal grooves, 7-10 by 4-6 mm.

Montane brushwoods, sparse forests; at elevations of 100-1,600 metres in southern China. Light forest, usually in the hills, from sea-level to 1,400 metres.

The young leaves are fried with pig meat.

Plants can be grown from seeds and cuttings.