7. Wbightia.] 74. ATOCYKACEM. [10. Vallabu. 



Valleys in Singbhum but not common ; Man! bum and Hazanbagh, 

 occasional ; Palamau ; Santnl Parganahs, occasional. Fls. April- July. 

 Fr. Dec.-Feby. Dec. Feby .-March. 



Milk yellowish-white. L. 3-5'' by l£-2£" base acute. Sec. n. strong 

 10-14 prs. Petiole \ H . Fls. 1" diam. ; coronal scales 10, toothed. 

 Fr. 6-12* by ^-|". Seeds slender with white coma. 



Nerium odorum, Boland. Kaj baha, 8.; Kaner, H. ; Oleander 

 Eng. is a common hardsome shrub often cultivated (and as if wild, 

 Prai'n) in Chota Nagf ur. The leaves are linear or lir ear-lanceolate in 

 whorls of thr^e, and it bears handsome white or rose-cold, flowers 1-1£" 

 diam. in terminal cymes. Follicles connate till ripe. Seeds tomeutose 

 and with a brown coma. 



9. Strophantus, D-0. 

 l. S. Wallichii, A.D.C. 



A climber "with lenticellate branches, oblcng cuspidate 

 glabrous leaves with minute stipules and terminal 2-chotomor.a 

 cymes of pale-coloured flowers remarkable from their long 

 twisted caudate petals. 



Kavines in Singbhum. Fls. April-May. 



Juice watery. L. 3 by 1" to 4'' by 2£'' with about 6-10 prs. of fine nerves 

 reticulate within the margin. Petiole §•£''. Cymes 3--*'' with recurved 

 linear bracts at the forks, lax. _ Calyx-lobes linear-subulate \'' . Corolla-fo'H 

 constricted in the middle f with lobes nearly 2'', veined purple within 

 and throat with 5 deeply 2-fid. scales. Bt. with long filiform appendag3B. 



10. Vallaris, Burm. 



1. V. Heynei, Spreng. Adaka red, K. 



A climber with light grey tough lenticellate cord-HVe 

 6tem8, oblong or ell. acuminate nearly glabrous leaves and 

 cymes of pretty white flowers §-§* diam. with broad 

 roundish spreading petals and exserted stamens, con- 

 spicuous by. the large dorsal gland and basal spurs. Froit 

 6" by IV, terete, of perfectly united carpels, ultimately 

 dehiscent. 



Valleys in Singbhum and Gangpur. Pochra (Palamau), Wood, 

 Fls. April-May. Fr. Nov.-Jany. New leaves in March, a light bright 



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