Bridal Boquet

Plumeria pudica Jacq. Sel. Stirp. Am. 37. 1763
Plumeria caracasana J. R. Johnston, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 108. 1908. Plumeria cochleata Blake, Contr. Gray Herb. 53: 47, 1918.
Small tree or shrub, 2-3 m. tall; leaves delicately membranaceous, obovate-oblong, more or less cochleate or pandurate, 7-30 cm. long, 3-15 cm. broad, obtuse to shortly acuminate, obtusely to acutely cuneate at the base, essentially glabrous above, more or less pilose to essentially glabrate beneath, the petioles scarcely manifest; inflorescence congested and subumbellate, the secondary peduncles scarcely manifest, bearing several showy yellowish-white flowers; pedicels 8-12.5 mm. long; calyx-lobes deltoid-subquadrate, rounded to truncate, 1.52.5 mm. long; corolla subinfundibuliform, the tube 15-25 mm. long, about 2 mm. in diameter at the base, gradually dilated above the insertion of the stamens to an orifice about 4 mm. in diameter, the lobes obovate to obovate-oblong, 20-35 mm. long, about halfconvolute in the bud, longitudinal in aestivation or scarcely spiral; follicles 15-17 cm. long, about 2 cm. broad.
Type LOCAiyiTv: Gardens, Curasao.
Distribution: Martinique (possibly introduced); also in Colombia and Venezuela.