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Kopsia (Named after Jan Kops Professor)

(named after Jan Kops, 1765-1849, Professor in Utrecht). SYN. Calpicarpum. ORD. Apocynaceae. A genus comprising four species of stove, evergreen, glabrous trees or shrubs, allied to Cerbera; they are natives of the Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago. Flowers white or pink, very ornamental, in short cymes; corolla salver-shaped; tube elongated, slender. Leaves opposite, membranaceous or sub-coriaceous, penninerved. Only one species has been yet introduced; it thrives in a compost of peat and sandy loam. Cuttings of rather firm young shoots will root in sand, if placed in a gentle bottom heat.

K. fruticosa (shrubby). fl. red, in terminal corymbs. May. l. broad, lanceolate. Pegu, 1818. A stove evergreen shrub. (B. M. 4220; B. R. 391, under name of Cerbera fruticosa.)