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oblon?, obtuse ; scales linear, scattered. Anthers white, exserted. 

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

 at their tips only. Seeds -|-f in. loag, linear, glabrous except for the 

 basal ooma. 



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

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

 also in Ceylon and Burma. The white even-grained 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) are 

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

 This form occurs in Bundelkhand and southwards. 



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



Hi, 653 ; Watt E. D. ; Kanjilal For. FL. 235; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 457 ; 

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

 Roylelll.270. Nerium tomentosum, Roxb. FL Ind. ii, O.Vetn.Dudh, 

 indarjau. 



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

 tomeritose. 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 | in. long. Flowers about 1 in. across, 

 rather foetid, 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-colonred 

 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 coaaa at 

 the lower end. 



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

 Merwaraand Bundelkhand. Flowers during May and June. DISTRIB. 

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

 Himalaya up to 4,000 ft. westwards to the Beas aiyl 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 

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

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



9. NERIUM, Linn. ; PI. Brit. Jnd. iii, 651. 



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

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

 lacemose cymes. Calyx 5-parfcite, glanduUr within, segments narrow. 

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

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



