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leaves are 5 to 9 inches long and 2 to 3 inches broad. The 

 panicle is large, and the flowers large and white. Bondeletia, 

 JFehera, Canthium, Wendlandia, and Ciqna are very nearly allied, 

 and are sjenerallv very fragrant. 



Cupia corymbosa. 

 D.C., Prodr., iv., p. o94, is a shrub of 5 or 6 feet 

 in height, with lanceolate-oblong leaves 6 to 7 inches long 

 and 2J inches broad, shining, with revolnte margins, and having 

 liairy glands in the axils of the large veins. The corymbs 

 are terminal : the flowers small, very numerous, at first white, 

 l»ut finally yellowish. The extremities of the young shoots 

 are often found covered with a white resinous matter, like that on 

 the germs of most species of Gardenia. It is a native of the 

 ( 'oromandel coast, Malabar, Pulo-Penang, on hills, Ceylon, China, 

 &c. it is called by Eheede, Cupi, Piheede, Mai., ii., p. 37, t. 23. 

 Syn., Rondeletia Asiatica, Lin. Spec, p. 244. Wchera corymhosa, 

 AVilld., Spec, i., p. 1224; Bot. Reg., t. 126. Canthium co7ymbosu7n , 

 Persoon, Synopsis plantarum, i., p. 200; Eoxb. Plor. Ind., ii., p. 533. 

 Stijlocoryna Webera, Eichard, in Mem. Soc Hist. Xat., v., p. 248. 



Cupia auriculata, D.C., Prodr., iv. p. 394. Syn., Wehera auricu- 

 Intii, Wall., in Eoxb Flor. Ind., ii., p. 537, is a large shrub, native 

 of Pulo-Penang. 



Ci'pia truncata, D.C, loc cit., is a twining shrub with ovate 

 leaves, 3 to 4 inches long, acute at the l)ase, dark and shining 

 above, coriaceous. The panicles are terminal. Flowers white, 

 fragrant, on short pedicles, by threes or in fascicles. It is a 

 native of Pulo-Penang, on hills. Syn., Wehera truncata, AValL, in 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind., ii., p. 538. 



Cupia scaiideiis, D.C, loc cit., is a scandent shrub with glossy, 

 oljlong, acuminated leaves G inches long and 2 to 3 inches broad. 

 The cymes are axillary. The flowers large, funnel-shaped, fragrant, 

 white when they first open, but becoming yellow by the second 

 day. Syn., Webera scandcns, Eoxb. Fl. Ind., ii., p. 534. Xative of 

 Silhet, where it is called Gujer-Kota by the natives. 



Cupia cymosa, D.C, loc. cit., Wehera. cyniosa, AVilld., Spec, i., 

 p. 1224 ; Bondeletia cymosa, Poiret, Diet, de P)Otanique, vi., p. 256; 



