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oblong, obtuse ; scales linear, scattered. Anthers white, exserted. 

 Follicles pendulous, 10-20 in. long, slender, cylindric, glabrous, cohering 

 at their tips only. Seeds - in. long, linear, glabrous except for the 

 basal coma. 



Bundelkhand and Bajputana in deciduous forests, also in the forests of 

 N. Oudh. Flowers March-May. DISTRIB. Central W. and S. Indii, 

 also in Ceylon and Burma. The white even-grarned wood is much used 

 for carving and turnery. The leaves yield an indigo-like dye which 

 is used by the natives of S. India, and the seeds (mitha indarjau)ard 

 eaten. In C. Rothii the branchlets and leaves are distinctly pubescent. 

 This form occurs in Bundelkhand and southwards. 



2. W. tomentosa, R. $ 8. Syst. iv t 414 ; Brandis For. Fl. 323 ; F. B. I. 



Hi, 653 ; Watt E. D. ; Kanjilal For. FL. 235; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 487 ; 

 Prain Beng. PL 674 ; Cooke FL Bomb, ii, 137. W. mollissima, Wall.; 

 Royle III. 270. Nerium tomentosum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 6. Vern. Dudh, 

 indarjau. 



A. small deciduous tree with grey corky bark ; young parts densely 

 tomeutose. Leaves tomentose on both surfaces, 3-6 in. long, elliptic- 

 oblong, caudate-acuminate, reddish-brown when dry, base acute, main 

 lateral nerves 8-14 pairs, petiole i in. long. Flowers about 1 in. across, 

 rather fcetid, arranged in short dense erect terminal corymbose cymes. 

 Calyx pubescent outside, glandular within ; lobes in. long, ovate, 

 obtuse. Corolla white or tinged with pink, turning to pale yellow, 

 tube twice as long as the calyx-lobes. Corona of orange-coloured 

 fleshy scales. Follicles 8-12 in. long, subcylindrical, laterally com- 

 pressed, connate throughout, grooved on each side at the junction of 

 the carpels, rough with many white prominences. Seeds --f in. long, 

 slender, tapering towards the apex and with a deciduous white coma at 

 the lower end. 



'Sub-Himalayan tract from Dehra Dun eastwards to Gorakhpur, also in 

 Merwara and Bnndelkhand. Flowers during May and June. DISTRIB. 

 Throughout the hotter parts of India in deciduous forests, on the 

 Himalaya up to 4,000 ft. westwards to the Beas and eastwards to 

 Sikkim, also in Ceylon and Burma. The white close-grained wood is 

 suitable for carving and turning, and is largely used, like that of 

 Holarrhena, for the manufacture of carved plates and picture-frames 

 iu the Saharanpur district. The bark of the stem and roots is re- 

 garded as an antidutj to snake -bite and the sting of scorpions. 



9. NERIUM, Linn. ; Fl, Brit. Ind. iii, 654. 



Erect glabrous shrubs. Leaves usually in whorls of three, narrow, 

 coriaceous ; nerves slender, very close. Flowers large, in terminal 

 lacemose cymes. Calyx 5-partite, glandular within, segments narrow. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped ; tube cylindric, expanding above, with five 

 fringed scales on the throat , lobes overlapping to the right. Stamens 



