frangipani

The genus, originally spelled Plumiera, is named in honor of the seventeenth-century French botanist Charles Plumier, who traveled to the New World documenting many plant and animal species.
The common name "Frangipani" comes from an Italian noble family, a sixteenth-century marquess
of which invented a
plumeria-scented perfume.
Plumeria is related to the Oleander, Nerium oleander, and both possess poisonous, milky sap, rather similar to that of Euphorbiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumeria