38 APOCYNACE&. [VAIIAEIS. 



in. long, limb spreading ; lobes obovate, obtuse. Ovary hairy, stigma 

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

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

 long, silvery white. 



Abundant within the area, especially in the sub-Himalayan forests east- 

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

 and the fruit ripens from January- April of the following year. DISTBIB* 

 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. The 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 cylindric, usually short, with a corona 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 ; 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. TF. tomentosa. 



1. W. tinctoria, E. Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 74 ; Royle III. 270 ; 

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

 Timb. 4S6 ; Coolie Fl. Bonib. ii t 137. W. Eothii, G. Don. Nerium tinc- 

 torium, "Roxb. ; Fl. Ind. ii t 4. -Vern. Dudhi (Bundelkhand), Khirni 

 (Eajputana). 



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. Flowers -^-f in. in diam., 

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

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

 margins membranous. Corolla tube | in. long ; lobes ^ in., linear- 



