Tabernaemontana pandacaqui Lam.

Shrub or small tree to 14 m tall. Branchlets lenticellate, occasionally sparsely pubescent. Leaves opposite; petiole 3-20 mm long; blade papery or subcoriaceous, elliptic or obovate, 3-14.1(−25) by 1-6.5(−10) cm, base cuneate, apex acuminate or caudate, glabrous or pubescent, lateral veins 4−14 pairs, curved ascending, weakly anastomosing near margin, frequently much paler than the blade above, tertiary venation mostly reticulate, sometimes obscure, often paler than the blade. Inflorescence pubescent or glabrous, 4-18 cm long, 2-many-flowered; peduncle 0.5-11 cm long; pedicels 2-20 mm long. Flowers weakly or not scented. Sepals ovate, 1−4 by 0.5−2 mm, 1-3 times as long as wide, apex rounded to acuminate, pubescent or glabrous, ciliate or not ciliate. Corolla white or pale yellow, in mature bud (1-)2.2-3 cm long with globose head which is 0.2-0.4 of bud length, apex rounded or obtuse; tube twisted or not, (8-)18-23 mm long, 3.7-11 times as long as sepals; lobes (6-)15-17 by 2−10 mm; glabrous outside and inside, rarely pubescent in throat, rarely pubescent at base of lobes, not ciliate. Stamens inserted in upper half of corolla tube; anthers 1.1-5 by 0.4-1 mm. Ovary 1-2.8 mm long; style and style head 1.1-1.6 mm long. Fruit of 2 separate follicles, orange, red or yellow, obliquely ellipsoid, 0.9-7.1 by 0.5-3 cm, apex acuminate, slightly reflexed, distinctly longitudinally ridged, glabrous or pubescent, 1-40-seeded. Seeds with a red or orange aril.

Open forests, brushwoods at low to middle elevations in southern China. Thickets at low elevations in the Philippines. Forest or bush, often on limestone, at elevations from sea-level to 1,800 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.