Wrightm.'] Apocyuacec^. 1 35 



overlapping to right ; stam. 5, inserted at mouth of cor,, fil. 

 short, villous within, with a large rounded knob on the back, 

 anth. connivent into a cone, adnate to stigma, cells with a 

 long curved spur at the base; disk a 5-lobed ring; carp, 

 connate, ov. 2-celled, with numerous ovules in each cell, 

 stigma oblong-ovoid ; fruit narrowly oblong, tardily splitting 

 from below into component carp.; seeds very numerous, com- 

 pressed, slightly beaked, with a long coma, endosperm scanty. 

 — Sp. 6 ; 4 in Fl. B. Ind. 



V. Keynei, Spreng. Sysi. i. 635 (1825). 



V. dichotoma, Wall., Thw. Enum. 192. C. P. 2519. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 650, Wight, Ic. t. 438 {V. dichotoma). 



A large woody twiner with a stout stem and many opp. 

 branches, bark thick, yellowish-white, smooth, young parts 

 pubescent; 1. 3i-4| in., oblong-lanceolate, acute at base, acu- 

 minate, acute, very glabrous and shining on both sides, rather 

 thick, veins pellucid, reticulate, petiole \ in. ; fl. on rather long, 

 slightly drooping, pubescent ped., cymes short, bracts small, 

 lanceolate, acute; cal.-segm. acute, pubescent; cor. about f in. 

 diam., finely pubescent outside, nearly globose in bud, tube 

 about as long as cal.-segm., hairy within, lobes concave ; fil. 

 very stout, anth. sharply pointed ; ov. and style hairy, stigma 

 pointed ; fruit 4-6 in., smooth, fibrous but rather fleshy ; seed 

 \ in., coma twice as long. 



Low country; rare. Hanguranketa ; Matale. Fl. Feb.-July; pale 

 greenish-white, sweet-scented. 

 Also in India. 

 The flowers have the scent of almonds. 



V. Pergtila7ia, Burm., C. P. 2515, is given in Thw. Enum. 192 as from 

 Colombo, Ferguson. It is only cultivated there, and is a Malayan species. 

 Figured in Wight, Ic. t. 429. 



14. WRZ6HTIA,* ^r. 



Small trees or shrubs, 1. opp., fl. rather large in corymbose 

 terminal cymes; cal. with scales within, segm. 5, obtuse; cor.- 

 tube short or long, lobes long, obtuse, overlapping to left, with 

 a corona of distinct erect scales at mouth in 1-4 series of five 

 or ten (or connate into a ring) ; stam. 5, anth. connivent into 

 a cone, adnate to stigma, sagittate at base, much exserted ; 

 carp, connate or distinct, stigma ovoid ; ripe carp, distinct 



* Commemorates Dr. William Wright, F.R.S., who spent eighteen 

 years in Jamaica. Died 1819. 



