Wrightia.l ApocyuacecB. 137 



A small tree, with slender cylindrical branches, young 

 parts glabrous ; 1. nearly sessile, 3-3I in., lanceolate-linear, 

 tapering to base, caudate-acuminate, obtuse, glabrous, thin, 

 fl. rather small on long very slender ped., cymes stalked, 

 rather lax, terminating lat. branchlets, buds oblong, blunt ; 

 cal.-segm. oval, obtuse, slightly ciliate; cor. about \ in. diam., 

 pubescent on both sides, lobes oblong-linear, obtuse, coronal 

 scales 5, petaloid, alt. with lobes, and about f their length, 

 bifid and laciniate; ripe carp. 7-10 in., quite distinct, linear, 

 ■cylindrical, slender, glabrous, and shining; seeds linear, over 

 \ in., coma \\ in., pale orange-coloured. 



Dry country, rare. Dambulla (Gardner) ; Trincomalie (Glenie) ; Anu- 

 radhapura. Fl. June, July; creamy-white. 



Endemic. 



The wood requires examination. 



3. "W. tomentosa, Roem. &^ Schidtes^ Sysi. iv. 414 (1819). Pal- 

 jmadankai, T. 



Thw. Enum. 193. C. P. 2691. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 653. Wight, Ic. t. 443, 111. t. 154 {W. mollissiina). 



A small tree, with opp. divaricate branches, bark rather 

 thin, smooth, yellowish-grey, branchlets pubescent, young 

 parts finely tomentose; 1. 3-6 in., lanceolate or oval, acute at 

 base, slightly acuminate, obtuse, pilose above, tomentose- 

 pubescent and pale beneath, venation finely reticulate, pellucid, 

 prominent beneath; fl. large, on short, stout, tomentose ped., 

 cymes shortly stalked, rather dense ; cal. tomentose, lobes 

 very short, rounded, incurved; cor. i^-il in. diam., tube short, 

 lobes oblong-ovate, obtuse, thick, fleshy and brittle, coronal 

 scales connate into a 5-lobed cup; anth. hairy outside; ripe 

 carp, connate into a cylindrical fruit, 6-Z in. by i in. wide, 

 blunt, with 2 vertical grooves, rough with worts, ultimately 

 separating; seeds over \ in., linear, coma i|-2 in., white. 



Low country, rather rare. Heneratgoda ; Kaduganawa ; Ambaga- 

 muwa ; Batticaloa. Fl. Jan. -April ; at first yellowish, afterwards purple. 



Also in India, Burma, and Penang. 



The flowers have an unpleasant scent. The corolla changes colour 

 remarkably; when first open it is green outside and pale dull greenish- 

 ochre within with the corona salmon-coloured, but the whole becomes 

 gradually dull inky-purple. Wood yellowish-white, moderately heavy, 

 smooth, even-grained. 



4. W. zeylanica, Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 73 (181 1). Wal-idda, 

 Sudu-idda, S. 



Burm. Thes. 167, 23. Fl. Zeyl. n. 107. Nerium antidysentericiini., L; 

 Sp. PI. 209. TV. zeylanicum, L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10. W. atttidysetilerica, 

 Br. 1. c; Moon Cat. 19. Thw. Enum. 193. C. P. 1825. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 654. Burm. Thes. t. 77, and t. 12, f. 2 Gaertn. Fruct. 

 ii. t. 117 (fruit). 



