Wrightia.'] xciv. APOCYNACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 653 



short, superior. DISTRIB. Species about 12, tropical African, Asiatic and 

 Australian. 



W. vtligiosa, JJenth. in Gen. Fl. ii. 713 (Echites religiosa, Tnjsm. $ Binnend. 

 Hort. Bogor. 126) ; cultivated at Malacca (Herb. Maingay), is a native of Siam. It is 

 a small tree with elliptic leaves i-l in. long, capillary peduncles and pedicels, and 

 small flowers without coronal scales. 



* Calyx-segments half the length of the short corotta-tube or shorter. 



1. W. tinctoria, Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 73 ; glabrous, leave* elliptic- 

 ovate or -lanceolate or obovate-oblong obtuselv acuminate or caudate, coronal 

 scales fimbriate. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 406 ; Wall. Cat. 1625 ; Wight Ic. t. 444 ; 

 Dalz. 8> Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 145 ; Brand. For. Fl. 324; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 114; 

 Kurz For. Fl. ii. 193 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 241 ; Bot. Reg. t. 933. Nerium tiuc- 

 torium, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 19, and Fl. 2nd. ii. 4. 



CENTRAL INDIA and throughout the WESTERN PENINSULA. BIBMA (Kurz). 

 DISTRIB. Timor (Herb. Mus. Paris'). 



A small tree, twigs glabrous or puberulous. Leaves 3-5 by l-l in. ; nerves 

 6-12 pairs, faint till the leaves are old, then strong beneath ; base acute or rounded; 

 petiole very short. Cymes sometimes 5 in. diam., with slender spreading dichotomous 

 branches ; bracts minute ; flowers white, - in. diam. Sepals ovate, obtuse. Corolla- 

 lobes linear-oblong, scales linear scattered. Stamens large. Follicles 6-18 in. or 

 more, cylindric, slender, smooth, tips adhering. Seeds | in., glabrous except for the 

 coma, linear. Foliage very variable. I have seen no Birmese specimen. The Timor 

 plant is undoubtedly the same. 



VAR. Eothii ; branches and leaves beneath puberulous. W. Rothii, G. Don Gen. 

 Syst. iv. 86 ; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 406 ; Wight Ic. t. 1319. W. tinctoria, Roth Kov. PI. 

 Sp. 121. Deccan Peninsula. 



2. W. ang ustif olia, Thwaites Enum. 193 ; glabrous, leaves lanceolate 

 obtuse, coronal scales ligulate tips lacerate. Beddome For. FL Anal. Gen. 160. 



CEYLON ; Dambool and Trincomalee, Gardner. 



A small tree; branches slender. Leaves l-4 by -f in., almost black -when dry, 

 nerves 6-12 pairs; petiole very short. Cymes and flowers as in W. tinctoria, but 

 the coronal scales very different, as long as the anthers, and laciniate at the tip only. 

 fruit unknown. 



3. W. tomentosa, Roem. fy Schultes Syst. iv. 414 ; densely tomentose, 

 leaves elliptic caudate-acuminate, base acute, cymes many-flowered, corolla- 

 lobes linear-oblong, coronal scales short obtuse entire or lobulate. A. DC. Prodr. 

 viii. 404 ; Wall. Cat. 1628 ; Wight Ic. t. 443, and III. ii. t. 154 ; Dalz. 8f Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 145; Brand. For. Fl. 323; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 114; Beddome 

 For. FL, Anal. Gen. 159. W. mollissima, Wall. Cat. 1627; PLRar.n. t. 126; 

 Kurz For. FL ii. 192. W. Wallichii, A. DC. I.e. 405; Dalz. $ Gibs. I.e. ; 

 Kurz 1. c. ; Wight Ic. t. 1296 ; Beddome I. c. 160. W. Coraia, Wall. Cat. under 

 1615; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 407. W. Hamiltoniana, Wall. Cat. 4461. Hunteria 

 eugenifolia, Wall. Cat. 1615. Nerium tomentosum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 6. N. 

 Coraia, Hb. Ham. N. ? tinctorium, Hb. Ham.Rheede Hort. Mai. ix. t. 3, 4. 



TROPICAL INDIA ; from the Indus eastwards and southwards to Ceylon, Birma and 

 Penang, ascending to 2000 ft. in the Himalaya, and to 4000 in the Nilgherries. 



A small usually crooked deciduous-leaved tree, bark corky. Leaves 3-6 by 1^-2^ 

 in., often tomentose on both surfaces, dark brown when dry, nerves 10-14 pairs; 

 petiole \ in. Cymes peduncled, corymbose, many-fld. ; flowers 1 in. diam., yellowish 

 with orange coronal scales. Sepals half as long as the corolla-tube, rounded. 

 Corolla-lobes linear- or obovate-oblong, coronal scales very variable. Anthers white. 

 Follicles 6-12 by in., connate into a cylinder, with a deep groove on each side till 

 maturity, rough with tubercles. Seeds slender, - in., coma pure white. There ia 



