Wendlandicu\ RubiacetZ. 297 



unbranched, prominent beneath, and connected by transverse 

 venation, petiole §— \ in., stip. about \ in., oblong-oval, obtuse, 

 entire ; fl. numerous, nearly sessile, head f-i in., globose, 

 receptacle hairy, peduncle of two parts separated by a pair of 

 bractlets, upper part slender, cylindrical, pubescent, lower 

 part hard and woody, laterally compressed, tapering, curved, 

 glabrous, becoming after the fall of the fruit much enlarged, 

 falcately hooked and very rigid ; cal. woolly, segm. very short ; 

 cor.-tube f in., hairy outside, lobes obtuse, glabrous within ; 

 capsule I in., stalked, narrowly ovoid, much tapering at both 

 ends, crowned with persistent cal. -limb, slightly hairy, valves 

 chartaceous, flat, separating from cal., which remains entire 

 at top ; seeds with very long membranous tails, 2 at one end 

 and 1 at the other. 



Moist low country up to 3000 ft.; rather rare. Kandy; Hantane; 

 Deltota ; Ambagamuwa ; Morowak Korale ; Kaduganawa ; Colombo. 

 Fl. March ; yellowish-green. 



The type in the Malay Peninsula, but our var. endemic. 



This differs from U. Gambier, Roxb., of Malaya, which affords the 

 Gambir or ' Terra japonica ' of commerce, in its shorter cal.-segm. and 

 the want of tufts of hair inside the cor. -lobes : I have also ascertained 

 that the extract to be obtained by boiling the leaves of our plant does not 

 resemble the commercial product from that species (which is figured in 

 ' Medicinal Plants,' 1. 139 exclusive off. 7 and 8) ; but they are very closely 

 allied. 



The leaves when dried are a dark coppery-brown. 



7. WENDLANDIA, Bartl. 



A small tree, 1. often in whorls of 3, stip. small ; fl. small 

 in large terminal panicles ; cal.-segm 5, small ; cor. tubular 

 below, then recurved, shortly 5-lobed, lobes twisted in bud ; 

 stam. 5, inserted between cor.-lobes, anth. almost sessile; ov. 

 globose, 2-celled, with numerous ovules on large placentas, 

 style long, stigma large, bilobed, slightly exserted ; fruit cap- 

 sular, very small, globose, 2-celled, 2-valved ; seeds numerous, 

 very minute, flat. — Sp. 16; 14 in Fl. B. Ind. 



"W. Notoniana, Wall, in IV. and A. Prod. 403 (1834). Rawan- 

 idala. S. 



IV. bicuspidata, W. and A. Prod. 403. Thw. Enum. 159. C. P. 315. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 40. Wight, Ic. t. 1033. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 224. 



A small tree or large shrub with erect or ascending 

 branches, bark orange-red coming off in fibrous strips, 

 branchlcts densely pubescent, buds very silky; 1. usually 3 

 at a node, 4-5 in., lanceolate-oval, much tapering to base, 

 acuminate, acute at apex, slightly pilose above, pubescent 



