8, Wendlaxdia.] 77. RUBIACE.E. 



8. WENDLANDIA, Bartl. 

 Small trees or shrubs with Avell-developed often persistent stipules. 

 Fls. small white 2-3-bracteolate in terminal dense panicled cymes. 

 Hypanth. small globose with 4-5 small persistent sepals. Corolla 

 with a long or short tube and 4-5 lobes imbricate in bud, throat 

 glabrous or hairy. St. with versatile exserted anthers. Ovules on 

 two small globose axile placentae. Capsule small globose splitting 

 loculicidally through the top, 2-valved with minute compressed seeds. 

 Stipules recnrved. Corolla lobes Ion;s:er than the tube . . . . I. exseffa. 

 Stipules erect. Corolla lobes much shorter than the tube . . .2. finetoria. 



1. W. exserta, DC. Syn. Eondoletia exsorta, i?ox?>. ; Tilia, H". ; Tilai, 



K. ; Hundru, S. ; Tiruwa, Mai. P. 

 A handsome small tree, hoary or pubescent all over, with oblong- or 

 ovato -lanceolate acuminate leaves 4-8" by l-2'5" and persistent or 

 sub-persistent broadly-oblong or ovate recurved stipules. Flowers 

 very fragrant about •US" long with the reflexed petals '!" long. Cap- 

 sule hoary pubescent 06-07" diani. crowned by the erect lanceolate 

 hairy sepals. 



In all districts except, perhaps, Balasore and Cuttack ! Rather local but some 

 times sub-gregarious in second-growth forest and on broken ground. Fl. March- 

 April. Fr. April-May. Evergreen. 



Rarely attains 2-5 ft. girth ^vith light brown bark. Easily recognised by its grey 

 foliage. Leaves with 12-16 ])ron)iuent sec n.. tertiaries short often indistinct, 

 base acute, petiole "o-'S". Panicles pyramidal 3-6'', lower branches sometimes 

 axillary. Branches with rhomboid-lane, hairy bracts ■lo-*2" long each subtending 

 a subsessile cyme of about 8 flowers. Corolla tube broad, nerved. 



Sometimes used for house posts. It is a very light-demanding tree which, like so 

 many Rubiacfce, ajipears only to gei-minate or the seedlings only to survive on 

 ground quite free from weeds', and hence often comes up on landslips, abandoned 

 jhumed areas, etc., and is useful for clothing such places. 



2. W. tinctoria, DC. Hundru, Undru, K. • Tilai, S. ; Tile, Khond. 



A small tree or large shrub, densely branched, not hoary, with 

 nearly glabrous elliptic, oblong or obovate leaves 4-8" by 2-3*5", acute 

 or obtuse narroAved into the •5-*75" long petiole. Stipules •25-"4" 

 erect orbicular or ovate with a long laterally compressed cusp. 

 Corolla •2--75" long with the lobes much shorter. Capsule •OG-'Of" 

 diam. pubescent, reddish. 



Chiefly in Sal forest and distinctly a shade-bearer. Throughout the province 

 but especially in the Central Area in valley forests! Fl, Jan.-March, Fr. 

 March-April, Evergreen, renews leaves March-April. 



Bark brown stringy, blaze light rose-coloured, white on the wood. Shoots 

 pubescent. Leaves shining above, pubescent on the 8-12 sec. n. beneath and when 

 young, often with a short obtuse apex. I'anicles 6-8" or sometimes 10" pubescent 

 pyramiilal, bracts subulate, fls. sessile. The flowers open before the corolla-tube 

 lengthens. 



The bark is used as a mordant in dyeing. 



9. HYPTIANTHERA, W. 4 A. 



A glabrous shrub with short-petioled leaves and white flowers 

 sessile in axillary fascicles. Hypanthium shortly tubular slightly 

 dilated upwards, calyx -tube above the ovary very short Avith 5 sepals. 

 Corolla very shortly tvibular with 4-5 erect or spreading twisted 

 lobes, very caducous, hairy within. Anthers 4-5, sessile, oblong, 



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