38 AFOCYNACEM. [Vailabis. 



in. long, limb spreading ; lobe3 obovate, obtuse. v a ry hairy, stigma 

 pointed. Fruit 4-6 in. long, acuminate from a rounded base, valves 

 tbick and fibrous. Seeds about \ in. long, ovoid, beaked ; coma f in. 

 long, silvery wbite. 



Abundant witbin tbe area, especially in tbe sub-Himalayan forests east- 

 wards from Dehra Dun, and in Bundelkband. Flowers December-April, 

 and tbe fruit ripens from January- April of tbe following year. Disteib' 

 Punjab westwards to the Sutlei, Himalaya up to 5,000 feet in Kumaon, 

 E. Bengal and southwards to Ceylon, also in Burma. The twigs are 

 used for making baskets in the Saharanpur district. Ibe plant is 

 cultivated in gardens for its scented flowers. 



8. WRIGHTIA, R. Br. ; PI. Brit. lad. iii, 652. 



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 salver-shaped ; tube cvlindric, usually short, with a coroDa of 

 5-10 usually fimbriate scales in the throat, lobes overlapping to the 

 left. Stamens at the top of the corolla-tube ; filaments short, dilated ; 

 anthers exserted, sagittate, conniving around and adhering to the 

 stigma, cells spurred at the base. Disk none. Carpels 2, free or 

 connate, many-ovuled, style filiform. Follicles distinct or at first 

 connate. Seeds linear, compressed, narrowed at the apex and with 

 a deciduous coma at the base ; albumen scanty or none j cotyledons 

 broad, convolute. Species about 10, in Trop. Asia and Australia, one 

 extending to S. Africa. 



Leaves glabrous or puberulous beneath ; follicles 

 smooth, cohering at the apex only . . . 1. W. tinctoria. 



Leaves tomentose on both surfaces ; follicles 

 connate throughout, rough with white tuber- 

 cles ... ... 2. W. tomentosa. 



1 W. tinctoria, R. Br. in Mem. Wem. Soc. i.74; Boyle III. 270; 

 Brandis For. FL 324 ; F. B. I. iii, 653 ; Watt E. I).; Gamble Man. Ind, 

 Timb. 436 ; Coolie Fl. Bomb, ii, 137. W. Eothii, G. Don. Nerium tine- 

 torium, Roxb. ; Fl. Ind. ii, 4— Vern. Dv.dhi (Bundelkhand), Ehirni 

 (Bajputana). 



A small deciduous tree, glabrous or more or less pubescent. Leaves 3-5 

 in. long, elliptic- ovate or -lanceolate or obovate-oblong, caudate or acu- 

 minate, base rounded or acute ; main lateral nerves 6-12 pairs, con- 

 spicuous in the mature leaf, petiole very short. Flousers |-f in. in diam., 

 white, fragrant, arranged in lax terminal dichotomous cymes ; branches 

 slender, spreading ; bracts minute, ovate. Calyx-lobes ovate, rounded, 

 margins membranous. Corolla tube § in. long ; lobes i in., linear- 



