6. AL8T0NU.] 74. APOCYNACE&. [7. Wbightia. 



or stalked, branches 2-4'' with often 2-3 whorls of sec. brancnea 

 i 1* long bearing the sub-capitate umbels. Corolla i-£" diam. throat 

 with reflexed hairs. Follicles terete only $'' diam. 



6. Holarrhena, R. Br. 

 I. H. antidysenterica, Wall. Knar, Tuar, K.-, Hat, 



8.; Kurchi, H., Beng. ; Koraiya, Kharw. ; Korkoria, Oraon. ; 

 Kurdu, Mai Pah. 



A large shrub or small tree with somewhat distichous] y 

 spreading sub-sessile leaves 6-12" by l|-5"- strongly 

 nerved beneath and terminal corymbose cymes of sweet- 

 scented white flowers £-l§* diam. Follicles slender 8-16" 

 divergent. 



Very common, esp. in open glades in the valleys and in waste 

 ground. Fls. May-July. Fr. Dec.-Jfeby. Dec. Feby.-April, it flowers 

 with the new shoots. 



New shoots pubescent. First pair of leaves on a twig broadly 

 elliptic 3 7 long, others ovate-ell. or ell.-oblon? shortly 

 pQuminate with obtuse base, glabrous or pubescent beneath. Sec. n. 

 B — 13 prs. Cymes 3-6'' diam. Corolla-tube slender £-| 7 with 

 atamens low down in the tube. Disc 0. Seeds (Inderjao, H.) linear- 

 oblong with long brown coma. 



An excellent cure for bad dysentery. A case in Chaibassa of 

 nearly a year's standing was cured in a few weeks by a native 

 practitioner. The patient was a European, who gave mo a few of the 

 seeds for identification. " The leaves are distasteful to cattle and goats,*' 

 Gamble. 



7. Wrightia, R. Br. 



1« W. tomentosa* Roem. Tuar, K.; Burn machkunda, 

 8.; Khirna, Kherna, Kharw. 



A small tree with slender pubescent branches and 

 distichous elliptic shortly caudate-acuminate tomentose leaves 

 with 8- 14 prs. of str ong sec. nerves and greenish-orange or 

 cream-cold. Fls. with deep-orange 6r scarlet coronal-scales in 

 tomentose corymbose cymes. The follicles are connate into a 

 compressed grooved pendant cylinder, greenish with white 

 tubercles. 



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