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conniving around and adhering to the stigma, the cells with solid spurs 

 at the base. Disk 0. Carpels of the ovary 2, free or connate ; ovules 

 many in each carpel. Follicles connate or distinct. Seeds linear, 

 attenuated at the apex, with a deciduous coma at the lower end ; albumen 

 scanty or ; cotyledons broad, convolute ; radicle short, superior. — 

 DiSTKiB. Tropical Asia and Australia, 1 ia Natal; species about 10. 



Fruit rough with white tubercles, grooved at the junctiou of 



the carpels 1. W. tomentosa. 



Fruit without white tubercles, not grooved at the junction of 



the carpels 2. W, tindoria. 



1. Wrightia tomentosa, Boem. Sf Schult. Si/st. v. 4 (1819) p. 414. 

 A small tree reaching 25-30 ft. high, abounding iu yellow milky juice, 

 with opposite divaricate scabrous branches ; bark smooth, yellowish-grey ; 

 branchlets pubescent ; young parts densely tomentose. Leaves 3-6 by 

 l|-2i in., elliptic-oblong, acuminate, tomentose on both sides, drying 

 dark-brown, base acute ; main nerves 8-14 pairs ; petioles ^ in. long. 

 Flowers malodorous, 1 in. or more across, in short dense erect terminal 

 corymbose tomentose cymes, white when on the tree, turning yellow 

 shortly after being gathered. Calyx pubescent outside, glandular inside ; 

 segments ^ in. long, broadly ovate, obtuse, with ciliate membranous 

 margins. Corolla-tube 4— | in. long ; lobes |-|- in. long, oblong, rounded 

 at the apex ; corona orange, of 5-10 oblong, often laciniate scales. Fruit 

 cylindric, 6-12 by g in., with a groove on each side at the junction of 

 the carpels, rough with white tubercles. Seeds -i-| in. long, slender, 

 attenuated at the apex, with a deciduous white coma 1-11 in. long at 

 the lower end. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 653; Grab. Cat. p. 114; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. p. 145 ; Wight, Icon. t. 443 ; Bedd. For. Man. in Flor. Sylvat. 

 p. clix; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 137 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 228 ; 

 "Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1898) p. 165; Watt, Diet. Econ. 

 Prod. V. 6, part 4, p. 317. Wrightia WaUichii, A. DC. Prodr. v. 8, 

 p. 405 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 145 ; Wight, Icon. t. 1296.— Flowers : Apr.- 

 June. Veen. Kdld-inderjav ; Tdmbada-hudd. 



KoNKAN : in moist forests, Talbot ; common in the northern Ghats, Dalsell ^~ Gibson ; 

 Wari country, Balzell ^ Gibson; Sawantvadi, Woodrow. Kanaka: Ritchie, WIS \; 

 Supa Ghats rare, Talbot ; Yacombi, Woodrow. — Distrib. Throughout Tropical India ; 

 Cejlon, Penang. 



2. Wrightia tinctoria, R. Br. in Mem. Wem. Soc. v. 1 (1811) 

 p. 74. A small deciduous tree ; bark scaly, smooth ; young parts 

 glabrous or puberulous. Leaves variable, 3-6 by 1-2^^ in., elhptic- 

 lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous or the young leaves 

 puberulous beneath, base acute or rounded ; main nerves 6-12 pairs ; 

 petioles §— g^ in. long. Flowers white, fragrant, in lax terminal cymes 

 which are sometimes 5 in. in diam. with slender spreading dichotomous 

 branches ; bracts minute, ovate. Calyx glabrous, glandular inside ; 

 segments ji^ in. long, oblong, rounded at the apex and with membranous 

 margins. Corolla-tube short, ^ in. long; lobes 5 in. long, oblong, 

 obtuse ; corona of numerous linear scales, some inserted with the 

 filaments and some on the corolla-lobes. Fruit of 2 distinct pendulous 

 follicles, 10-20 by \,-\ in., cylindric, slightly tapering to both ends, 

 glabrous, striate, cohering at first at the tip only. Seeds |— | in. 

 long, pointed at the apex, with a deciduous coma often more than 



