38 APOCYXACEM. [VALIABIS. 



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

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

 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. D is TRIE* 

 Punjab westwards to the Sutlej, Himalaya up to 5,000 feet in Kumaon, 

 E. Bengal and southwards to Ceylon, also in Burma. 1 he twigs are 

 used for making baskets in the Saharanpur district. Ihe plant is 

 cultivated in gardens for its scented flowers. 



8. WRIGHTIA, K. Br. ; PI. Brit, Ind, 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 c'ylindric, usually short, with a coroca (f 

 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. W. tomentosa. 



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

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

 Timb. 4S6 ; CooTce Fl. Boml. ii, 137. W. Eothii, G. Don. Nerium tine- 

 toriutt), Rosib. ; Fl. Ind. ii, 4. -Vern. Dudhi (Bundelkhand),.K7wm 

 (Rajputana). 



A small deciduous tree, glabrous or more or less pubescent. Leaves 3-5 

 in. long, elliptic- ovate or -lanceolate or ob ovate-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 -i-f- in. in diam., 

 white, fragrant, arranged in lax terminal dichotomous cymes j branches 

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

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



