Region: West Indies.
English: Day-blooming cestrum; Day-blooming jessamine; Day-blooming jasmine.
Urdu and Hindi: Din ka Raja, = king of the day.
Subgenus: Pseudocestrum.
Use: for screens and borders, is released by day.
Content: vitamin D3.
Use: medicinal.
BotanyQuick-growing, evergreen woody shrub
Stem: numerous leafy branches, green, with well-marked white lenticels when young, fawn with age; covered with a very sparse glandular scruf when young.
Leave: simple, glabrous, entire, alternate, ex-stipulate; ovate-lanceolate obtuse apex, obtusely wedge-shaped below; dark green above and pale below; ± 13 cm, 5 cm wide; petiolate, ± 1cm long.
Inflorescence: long axillary peduncle, with short clusters of flowers; with leaf-like bract.
Flowers: sweet white-smelling; sessile; with or without bracteoles.
Calyx: gamo-sepalous; ± 0,5 cm long; somewhat puberulent, obtusely 5-ribbed and 5-lobed with obtuse, ciliate lobes.
Corolla: tube, narrowly infundibuliform, white, sweet-scented; with five lobes,very obtuse and completely recurved when the flower is fully open.
Stamens: 5; oblong, alternate with the corolla lobes, brown; filaments adnate to the tube, free for a very short distance.
Ovary: seated on a nectar-secreting disk; style filiform and glabrous; stigmas are truncate-capitate.
Fruit: black, nearly globular berries.