Wrightia. | XCIV. APOCYNACE®. (J. D. Hooker.) 653 
short, superior.—Drsrris. Species about 12, tropical African, Asiatic and 
Australian. 
W. religiosa, Benth. in Gen. Pl. ii. 713 (Echites religiosa, Teijsm. d Dinnend. 
Hort. Bogor. 126) ; cultivated at Malacca (Herb. Maingay), is a native of Siam. It is 
a small tree with elliptic leaves 3-1} in. long, capillary peduncles and pedicels, and 
small flowers without coronal scales. . 
* Calyx-segments half the length of the short corolla-tube or shorter. 
Vi. W. tinctoria, Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 73; glabrous, leaves elliptic- 
ovate or -lanceolate or obovate-oblong obtusely acuminate or caudate, coronal 
scales fimbriate. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 406; Wall. Cat. 1625; Wight Ic. t. 444 ; 
Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 145; Brand. For. Fl. 824; Grah. Cat. Bomb. Pl. 114; 
Kurz For. Fl.ii.193; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 241; Bot. Reg. t. 933. Nerium tine- 
torium, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 19, and Fl. Ind. ii. 4. 
Cenrrat Inpa and throughout the WxsrERN PrEwiNsULA. Biema (Kurz).— 
Disrris. Timor (Herb. Mus. Paris). 
A small tree, twigs glabrous or puberulous. Leaves 3-5 by 1-1} in.; nerves 
6-12 pairs, faint till the leaves are old, then strong beneath ; base acute or rounded; 
petiole very short. Cymes sometimes 5 in. diam., with siender spreading dichotomous 
branches; bracts minute; flowers white, }—} in. diam. Sepals ovate, obtuse. Corolla- 
lobes linear-oblong, scales linear scattered. Stamens large, Follicles 6-18 in. or 
more, cylindric, slender, smooth, tips adhering. Seeds $ in., glabrous except for the 
coma, linear.—Foliage very variable. I have seen no Birmese specimen. The Timor 
plant is undoubtedly the same. 
Var. Rothii; branches and leaves beneath puberulous. W. Rothii, G. Don Gen. 
Syst. iv. 86 ; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 406 ; Wight Ic. t. 1319. W. tinctoria, Koth Nov. Pl. 
Sp. 121.—Deccan Peninsula. 
V 9, W. angustifolia, Thwaites Enum. 193; glabrous, leaves lanceolate 
obtuse, coronal scales ligulate tips lacerate. Beddome For. Fl. Anal. Gen. 160. 
Cresto ` Dambool and Trincomalee, Gardner. 
A small tree; branches slender. Leaves 14-4 by 3-4 in., almost black when dry, 
nerves 6-12 pairs; petiole very short. Cymes and flowers as in W. tinctoria, but 
the coronal seales very different, as long as the anthers, aud laciniate at the tip only. 
Fruit unknown. 
3. W. tomentosa, Roem. & Schultes Syst. iv. 414 ; densely tomentose, 
leaves elliptic caudate-acuminate, base acute, cymes many-flowered, corolla- 
lobes linear-oblong, coronal scales short obtuse entire orlobulate. A. DC. Prodr. 
viii. 404; Wall, Cat. 1628; Wight Ic. t. 443, and IU. ii. t. 154 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 
Bomb. Fl. 145; Brand. For. Fl. 823; Grah. Cat. Bomb, Pl. 114; Beddome 
For. Fl, Anal. Gen. 159. W. mollissima, Wall. Cat, 1627; Pl. Rar. ii. t. 126; 
Kurz For. Fl. ii. 192. W. Wallichii, 4. DC. Le 405; Dalz. & Gibs. Le: 
Kurz l.c.; Wight Ic. t. 1906 ; Beddome l.c. 160. W. Coraia, Wail. Cat. under 
1615; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 407. W. Hamiltoniana, Wail. Cat. 4461. Hunteria 
eugenifolia, Wall. Cat. 1615. Nerium tomentosum, Joch, FL. Ind, ii. 6.. N, 
Coraia, Hb. Ham. N.? tinctorium, Hb. Ham.—Rheede Hort. Mal. ix. t. 8, 4. 
TROPICAL Ixp1A ; from the Indus eastwards and southwards to Ceylon, Birma and 
Penang, ascending to 2000 ft. in the Himalaya, and to 4000 in the Nilgherries. 
A small usually crooked deciduous-leaved tree, bark corky. Leaves 8-6 by 13-24 
in. often tomentose on both surfaces, dark brown when dry, nerves 10-14 pairs; 
petiole ł in. Cymes peduncled, corymbose, many-fld.; flowers 1 in. diam., yellowish 
with orange ‘coronal scales. Sepals half as long as the eorolla-tube, rounded. 
Corolla-lobes linear- or obovate-oblong, coronal seales very variable. Anthers white. 
Follicles 6-12 by + in., connate into a cylinder, with a deep groove on each side till 
maturity, rough with tubercles, Seeds slender, A-Z in. coma pure white.—'l'here is 
