89. APOCYNACEjE. [12. Wrightia. 



1. N. odorum, Soland. Kaner, Kanel, Karpad, H. ; Karabi, Beng. ; 



Rajbaha, S. 



A beautiful well-known shrub witli usu.ally erect (in the wild form 

 often prostrate, ascending, j)erhaps from the rush of water) rod-like 

 branches and narrow leaves tapering each end. Flowers 1-1-5" diam. 

 usually rose or white, fragrant, in terminal cymes. 



Wild in stream beds of the United Provinces and Deccan but not in our area, 

 very common in gardens. Fl., Fr. most of the year in cultivation. I have only 

 seen the wild plant flowering in the h.s. and r.s. and fruiting c.s. 



Follicles 7" by -.i". 



2. N. oleander, L. 



The true Oleander of the Mediterranean region ajipears to be sometimes found in 

 gardens. The chief points of difference are those in the Key. A further difference 

 appears to be in the depressed 2-fid, less umbonate stigma according to De 

 CandoUe, 



12. WRIGHTIA, Br. 



Trees or shrubs with the milky juice white or yellow, opposite 

 leaves and m.s. fls. in terminal or sub-axillary sessile cymes. Calyx 

 short, 5-partite, with glands or scales inside. Corolla salver-shaped 

 with usually shoi^t tube and throat with 1-2 series of scales. St. at 

 top of tube, fil. short dilated, anthers exserted, sagittate, adhering 

 to stigma, cells spurred at base. Disc 0. Carpels free or connate, 

 many-ovuled, stigma ovoid with usually a toothed basal ring. 

 Follicles distinct or connate or adherent by both ends. Seeds linear, 

 compressed, tip narrowed, naked, base Avith a deciduous coma, albumen 

 scanty or 0. Cotyledons broad, convolute ; radicle short, superior. 



L. 4-10", sometimes glabrous. Corona white. Follicles only connate 



at tip or free 1. tincforia. 



L. 'S-o", never glabrous. Corona coloured. Follicles connate . . 2. fomenfosa. 



1. W. tinctoria, Br. Kapar, Rajivari ; Khirna, Khariv. 



A small, usually crooked tree, with the milky juice white, sub- 

 sessile elliptic-oblong, obovate or oblanceolate leaves with a sudden 

 short blunt acumination, 4-10" long (but always quite small at the 

 time of tlowei-ing). Flowers white, pretty, "lo-l" diam., conspicuous 

 for their corona of scales cvit into linear segments and exserted cone 

 of yellow anthers. Follicles 10-20" long, always curved and cohering 

 at the tip until nearly ripe, slender. 



Always on rocky ground and not common in our area. Palamau , Kechki and Betlah 

 forests! and near Deltonganj in scrub jungles! Gaya ghats, probablj- extending 

 into the Monghyr Hills ! Fl. with the very young leaves, Mar.-May. Fr. Dec. -Jan. 



Bark light grey. Blaze green, then white with copious latex. Leaves not 

 shilling, glabrous in the type [F.B.I. , but always softly pubescent or even velvety 

 in our area, pale beneath and rather a pale green above, those at base of shoots often 

 only 2"5" long, youug leaves drj- more or less blue with reddish nerves, sec n. 7-U 

 more rarely up to 12 prominent and softly pubescent beneath, whitish. Petiole 

 hardly any "IS" long. Cj-mes pubescent with small linear bracts. Follicles about 

 ■25" diam. 



2. W. tomentosa, Roem. Tuar, K. (the word merely means milk, and 



is applied to other trees with milky sap) ; Khirna, Kherua, 

 Kharw. ; Dudh Koraiya (Monghyr), Khiri, Th. ; Phaokurni, Or. 

 A small tree Avith slender pubescent branches and distichous 



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