674 BENGAL PLANTS. (Holarrhena. 
style short, filiform; stigma oblong-fusiform, tip entire or 
2-toothed. Fruit of 2 terete, elongated, spreading and incurved 
follicles. Seeds linear or oblong, compressed, tipped with a 
deciduous coma, concave with the funicle in the concavity; 
albumen scanty ; sepa broad, complicate. 
1216. HoLARRHENA ANTIDYSENTERICA Wall.; F. B. I. iii. 614; 
K. D. H. 294. 
In all the provinces except C. Bengal. 
A s , deciduous tree. Hind. and Beng. Kurchi; 
Santal. and Kol, Hat. 
553. Wrightia R. Br. 
Shrubs or small trees, often with slender, cord-like branches ; 
leaves opposi owers white, yellow, or red, in terminal or 
subaxillary, acasili eymes. usaik connate in a short, 5-partite 
aes ; tube with glands or scales within ; lobes obtuse. Petals 5, 
- connate in a salver-shaped corolla; tube usually short, cylindric ; 
throat with 1-2 series of usually fimbriate scales; lobes overlap- 
ping to the left. Stamens 5, adnate to top of corolla-tube ; fila- 
ae short, dilated; anthers exserted, sagittate, connivent 
und and adnate to the stigma; cells spurred at the base 
Disk 0. Carpels 2, free or connate, each many-ovuled; style — 
filiform ; stigma ovoid, with usually a toothed basal ring. Fruit 
of 2 linear, erect, connate or distinct follicles. Seeds linear, com- 
pressed, tips narrowed, naked, base with a deciduous coma ; 
albumen scanty or 0; cotyledons broad, convolute. 
Flowers yellowish, with short orange scales of corona............tomentosa. 
Flowers dark red, with large crimson scales of corona coccinea 
1217. WrIGHTIA TOMENTOSA Roem. & Schult. ; F. By. Leiti, 658% 
E. D. W. 131. Neriuwm tomentosum F. I. i. 6: 
In all the western and northern provinces. 
A small, deciduous tree. Hind. Dudhi, dharauli, 
ea Beng. Dudh- “kore! ; Sted Pal. kurwan, 
h ; Santal, Atkura, buru da. 
1218. Wao COCCINEA Sims; F. B. ae iii. 654. Neriwm coe- 
Ferrenmet walhiveded in C. and W. Bengals 
A medium tree. Vernac. Pallam. 
