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* •'•■ ('(ini//ti-//iroiit quite nuked. 



"W. (EcniTivs) EELtGios.v, IVysni. ot Eiun. Tonasserim and Siam. 



Glabrous, the leaves small and narrow. Pedicels filiform. Corolla small, ■wliitc. 



W. Zetlanica, 11. Brown (M.). 

 W. antidyxenterica, 11. Brown. 



"W. TOSIENTOSA, Sell. (M.). 



This Order produces some iiseful prciduits. The milky juice of several species 

 of the following genera yiidds India-rublntr : Callvplwra, ll'illiiijhheid, Vahea, ILin- 

 cornia, Urceola and Landolphiu. Some sjn'cies are highly ])oisunous, as Tamjltinia 

 renen'tflua and Cerhera alxnnai. Others yield dyes — D'lUntihheia tinctoria, a blue dye, 

 and W. tomeidona, a yellow dye ; and some yield (idible fruits, as W. cdiilis and 

 Un-eoln elnxlica, Ciirissa carandiis, C. edulis, Carpodium dulcis, Amhelan!a Pucuurin, 

 and Taberncnmontaiia utilis. Some species are iised as medicine, as Alhimanda 

 ciithartica, W^. Zcylanica {antidysentcrica), Curii.sa xi/lopicruii, I'htmiera alba, and 

 Ahlvnia sdiolaria as a tonic. 



Dr. ilason adds the following vernacular names for suniiry Apoci/nca : Seh-yeh, 

 Meh-tu, and in Sgau-karen, Tha-peh-khan-du-den, Nor-the-eh, Ka-thi-khleu, ll.sau- 

 ka-htau. 



Order JASillXl^iE. 



Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or unisexual. Cah/x free, usually small, 4-5-, 

 rarely more, toothed or lol)ed, or rarely truncate and entire. Corolla with a longer 

 or shorter tube, 4- or 5-, rarely more, lobed, or divided to the base into 4 petals, 

 rarely 2-pefalled, or wanting altogether. Stamens 2, rarely 4, adhering to the base 

 of the corolla. Filaments usually short. Anthers 2-celled, the cells opening by 

 longitudinal slits. Orarij 2-cclled, the cells with 2, rarely 1 or 3, ovules, in the 

 yuung state attached laterally, but becoming pendulous or ascending, according to 

 the growth of the ovary. Fruit succulent or capsular, entire or 2-lobed, 2-eelled, 

 or reduced to a single cell and seed. Seeds witli or without albumen. Fmbri/o 

 straight. Trees or shrubs often climbing, very rarely h(>rbs, with opposite or very 

 rarely alternate simple or pinnate leaves. Flowers in axilhiry or terminal panicles, 

 sometimes reduced to short racemes or clusters. 



Sub-order 0LEACE7E. 

 Stamens 2 only, situated between a pair of eorolla-lobes. 



JASMIXIEJE. 

 Corolla-limb b-M-lobed. Ovules erect. 

 * Fruit a dry compressed capsule. 

 Nyctanthes, Limmus. 

 Corolla twisted in bud. Albumen none. Scabrous trees, with simple leaves. 

 N. Aiiiiou-TuisTRis, L. Tenasserim and I'egu (where rare). 



A dye is extracted (in Ceylon) from the corolla-tube of this plant, which 

 Thwaites says is used by the Buddhists for dyeiug their clothes yellow. 



■"■* Fruit a 2- or by abortion X-lobed drupe. 

 Jasmixi'm, Linnanis. 

 Corolla twisted in bud. Albumen none. Slirubs usually scandent, rarely trees. 

 Leaves simple or compotind. 



Scries rXIFOLIOL.\T.T;. 



Leaves simple, with a jointed petiole. 



* Bracts minute or short and filiform, rarely wanting. 



X Calyx-lobes short, or the calyx almost truncate. 



4- Flowers corymbose. 



