344 BCllMA, ITS rEOPLE AXD PRODUCTIONS. 



X X Fruit a (hliinceiif cajjsule. 



Allamaxda, Zinnceus. 



Corolla-throat with scales, the anthers included in the tube. Aihumen scanty. 

 Erect shrubs, with showy 5-merous flowers. 



** Orary l-celhd, with axile placentas. 

 * A. CATHAETiCA, L. CultiTated all over Burma. 



Pha-young-ben. 

 The leaves are strongly purgative. 



X Corolla-throat furnished with 5 or 10 scales or appendages. Disk none. 

 Thevetia, Linnmis. 



Call/.!: many-glanded inside. JJriqie unequally 2-celled, not pulpy. Trees or 

 shrubs, with large flowers. 



*T. NERiiFOLiA, Juss. Cultivated about Prome. 



Cerhera theietia, L. 



The vellow oleander. An ornamental shrub. The bark is reckoned a febrifucc. 

 X X Corolla-throat naked. 

 Caeissa, Linnreus. 



Corolla salver-shaped, haiiy within. Style short or filiform. Ocary-celh 1-4, 

 rarely many-ovuled, the ovules in 2 rows. Berry S-l-celled, sappy. Albumen fleshy. 

 Shrubs or trees, usually spiny-armed. 



*■ All parts ylahrous. 



*" C. CARANDAS, L. var. a in the dry forests of Prome. Car Nicobar. 



Ovary-cells 4-ovuled. Berries the size of a plum. Leaves usually blunt or retuse. 



var. a genuina. 



var. y3 congesta, Wight. Leaves almost obicular, cymes short. 



var. 7 paucinervia, Wight. Leaves linear-lanceolate. 



Cultivated for its fruit in Burma (P.). 



C. DIFFUSA, Eoxb. Termoklee Island. Andaraans. Car Mcobar. 



Ovary-cells 2-ovuled. Berries the size of a pea or somewhat larger. Leaves 

 usually acute. 



** All parts, especially while young, shortly and softly puherulous. 



C. HiEsriA, P>oth. Ava. 



C. rillosa, Roxb. 



Ovary-cells 2-ovuled. Berries the size of a pea. 



WixcHiA, De Candulle. 



Apparently like preceding, but the style deeply 2-cleft and the ovules in 

 numerous rows. Unarmed, with ternary leaves. 



"W. CALOPHYLLA, D.C. Tppcr Tonasserim. 



Panicle glabrous. 



"W. (CniLOCAErrs) ateovtridis, B1. Tavoy. 



Hunteria atroviridis, Wall. 



Panicle minutely puherulous. 



Probably not sufficiently distinct from the preceding species (Kurz). 



