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11. VALLARIS, Burm. 



Twining shrubs. Leaves opposite, minutely dotted. Flowers white, 

 in axillary or supra-axillary dichotomous cymes, sometimes reduced to 

 fascicles. Calyx 5-partite, glandular or not iuside ; segments narrow. 

 Corolla hypocrateriforra or subrotate, the throat naked ; lobes broad, 

 overlapping to the right. Stamens inserted at the top of the corolla- 

 tube ; tilaments very short or clavate ; anthers exserted, acuminate, 

 conniving in a cone round the stigma and adherent to it, the connective 

 furnished with a more or less conspicuous fleshy tubercle at the back, 

 the cells produced at the base into short rigid appendages. Disk annular 

 or cupular, with 5 lobes or scales. Carpels of the ovary 2, at first 

 connate ; ovules many in each carpel ; style filiform, pubescent ; stigma 

 thick, obscurely annulate near the base. Fruit oblong, acuminate, the 

 carpels at length separating. Seeds 2-seriate, ovate, acuminate or 

 beaked, compressed, comose at the apex ; albumen scanty ; cotyledons 

 flat, thin ; radicle superior. — Distbib. Tropical Asia and Malaya ; 

 species 5 or 6, 



1. Vallaris Heynei, Sprewj. Si/st. v. 1 (1825) p. 635. A large 

 ■woody climbing shrub ; bark thick, yellowish-white, smooth. Leaves 

 2-4| by 1-1 3 in., elliptic-lanceolate or oblong lanceolate, acutely acumi- 

 nate, usually glabrous, pellucid-dotted, base acute ; petioles g-| in. long, 

 with glands in the axils. Flowers white, fragrant, in axillary 3-10- 

 flowered lax cymes ; peduncles slender, glabrous or pubescent ; pedicels 

 pubescent, often decurved ; bracts linear-lanceolate, acute, pubescent. 

 Calyx pubescent, g in. long ; lobes -^ in. long, ovate-oblong, obtuse or 

 subacute, pubescent, a little shorter than the corolla-tube, ciliate. Corolla 

 finely pubescent outside ; limb nearly | in. across, spreading, divided 

 about |-way down into 5 obovate obtuse lobes ; corolla-tube g in. long. 

 Anthers acute, connivent into a sharp cone, exserted; filaments broad, 

 linear, pubescent. Disk with 5 oblong obtuse ciliate lobes. Ovary 

 hairy ; style hairy ; stigma pointed. Fruit 4-6 by 1^-2 in., straight, 

 somewhat acuminately pointed, fibrously striate. Seeds ^ in. long, 

 ovoid, beaked ; coma | in. long of silvery-white hairs. Fl. B. I. v. 3, 

 p. 050 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 1-44 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 135 ; Talb. Trees, 

 Bomb. ed. 2, p. 227 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) 

 p. 165 ; AVatt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 4, p. 219. Vallaris dicJiotoma, 

 Wall. Cat. 1621 ; Wight, Icon. t. 438.— Flowers : Dec-Apr. 



KoNKAN ! Lawl, Bahell($- Gihso7i. Deccan : Dalzcll^- Gi()SOJi ; S. Deccan, Woodrow ! 

 S. M. Country: Belj^aum, Eitchie, 1114! Kanaka: N. Kanara often in hedges, 

 Talhot; Jagalbet, Woodrow, — Distrib. More or less throughout India, often cultivated ; 

 Cejlon. 



12. WRIGHTIA, II. Br. 



Shrubs or small trees, often with slender cord-like branches. Leaves 

 opposite. Flowers red, white, or yellow, in terminal or pseudo-axillary 

 cymes. Calyx short, 5-partite, with glands or scales inside. Corolla 

 hypocrateriform ; tube cylindric, usually short, with a corona of 5 or 10 

 erect usually fimbriate scales in the throat which are either distinct or 

 united into n ring ; lobes overlapping to the left. Stamens at the top 

 of the corolla-tube J filaments short, dilated; anthers exserted, sagittate, 



