
Classification:
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Angiospermae
Sub Division: Dicotyledonae
Sub Class: Gamopetalae
Series: Bicarpellatae
Order: Poleminiales
Family: Solanaceae
Genus: Cestrum
Species: diurnum
Scientific Name: Cestrum diurnum L.
Common Name-
English: Day-blooming cestrum, Day jasmine, China berry, Chinese
inkberry
Hindi: दिन का राजा Din Ka Raja
Tamil: Nar pakal nayaki
Distribution: A native of the West Indies, it is widely cultivated in gardens throughout India
Description:
Flowers: The Inflorescence consists of a long axillary peduncle which bears short clusters of sweet white-smelling flowers, each cluster supported by a leaf-like bract. The individual flowers are sessile and may be with or without bracteoles.
Calyx is gamo-sepalous, about 0.15 in long, somewhat puberulent, obtusely 5-ribbed and 5- lobed with obtuse, ciliate lobes.
Corolla tube is narrowly infundibuliform, white, sweet-scented, about half-inch lobed with five lobes. The lobes are very obtuse and completely recurved when the flower is fully open.
Stamens oblong, five in number, alternate with the corolla lobes, brown in colour, included. Filaments adnate to the tube, free for a very short distance. Ovary seated on a nectar-secreting disk. The style is filiform and glabrous. The stigmas are truncate-capitate.
Fruits: It has a black, nearly globular berry.