Thevetia L.

with intrapetiolar glands. Inflorescences cymose to racemose, axillary or terminal, few-to several-flowered. Flowers medium-sized to large, frequently showy; brac-teoles present; calyx 5-lobed, the lobes ? equal, bearing many squamellae with-in; corolla salverform to infundibuliform, white, cream, orange, or pinkish-yellow, the orifice closed by 5 appendages, the limb 5-lobed, sinistrorsely convolute; sta-mens 5, wholly included, the anthers free and not agglutinated to the stigma, without an enlarged connective; gynoecium 2-carpellate, apocarpous, the ovary superior, the ovules 2-4, the nectary annular, the style 1, the stigma umbraculi-form below and bifid above. Fruit syncarpous, drupaceous, or berry-like, the peri-carp coriaceous; seeds 2-4, ovoid, naked.