136 Apocynacece. {Wrif^htia. 



(or connate, but at length separating), linear ; seeds linear, 



compressed, with a long coma at base, endosperm scanty 



or o. — Sp. 12; 6 in /7. B. Ind. 



Cor.-tube very short. 

 Cor.-scales distinct. 



Cor.-scales 20; 1. slightly hispid on veins i. W. flavido-rosea. 

 Cor.-scales 5 ; 1. glabrous . . . 2. W. angustifolia. 

 Cor.-scales connate ; 1. tomentose . . 3. W. tomentosa. 

 Cor.-tube long ; cor.-scales 30 . . .4. W. zeylanica. 



I. W. flavido-rosea, Trim, injourn. Bot. xxiii. 238 (1885). [Plate 

 LXI.] 



\V. RotJiii (?), van picberida., Thvv. Enum. 193. Trim, in Journ. Bot, 

 xxvii. 164. C. P. 1837. 



A small tree, branchlets thickened at nodes, young parts 

 puberulous; 1. 4-6 in., narrowly lanceolate, tapering at both 

 ends, slightly acuminate, obtuse, rough, with short hair on the 

 veins on both sides especially beneath, deep green, paler 

 beneath, venation prominent beneath, petiole very short, 

 pubescent; fl. large, ped. long, thickened upwards, pubescent, 

 3-12 in cyme, buds bluntly pointed, bracts very small; cal. 

 pubescent, segm. broadly oval-triangular, obtuse, thick and 

 swollen at base, membranous at edges, scales small, ovate ; 

 cor. li in. diam., tube about \ in., lobes oval-oblong, obtuse 

 or subacute, puberulous on both sides, not fleshy, coronal 

 scales 20, 10 strap- shaped and cut about half way down 

 into 3 filamentous segm. (5 opp. and adnate to base of 

 cor.-lobes, and 5 opp. and just outside stam.), and 10 linear 

 and undivided in pairs between the stam. ; anth. pubescent 

 outside, with a tuft of white hairs at summit ; ov. hairy on 

 top, style thickened upwards, stigma with two short papillae 

 on summit; ripe carp., at first connate into a cylindrical fruit, 

 but soon separating, except at the points, 8-9 in., about \ in. 

 wide, very sharply pointed, glabrous; seeds very numerous, 

 \ in., linear, truncate, coma about 2 in. 



Dry or intermediate region, rare. UambuUa (Gardner) ; foot of 

 Doluwa Kande, Kurunegala Dist. Fl. May; pale yellow at first, after- 

 wards orange-pink, finally purplish-grey, anth. dirty white. 



Endemic. 



Inner bark ver)' fibrous and strong. W. Rothii, G. Don, of S. India, 

 to which Thw. very doubtfully referred this, is figured in Wight, Ic. t. 

 1 319, and is considered a variety of IV. iinctona, Br., in Fl. B. Ind. 



[ IV. tindoria, Br., a native of India, has not been found wild in 

 Ceylon. C. P. 1838 is from the Botanic Garden.] 



2. VT. angrustifolla, Thw. Emnn. 193 (i860). 

 Thw. F.ninn. 193, 424. C. P. 1S39. 

 Fl. 15. Ind. iii. (r^l- 



