Taberncemontana] LXXUL APOCYNACKE! 461 



woody creeper, youngest shoots and young 1. pubescent, mature 1. glabrous, coria- 

 ceous, elliptic, caudate-acuminate, blade 4-7. pet. J-§ in. long. see. n. 9-11 pair, promi- 

 nent. Fl. small, white, in large pubescent triehotomous terminal panicles, the lower 

 bracts leaf-like, the upper membranous, lanceolate, 1-nerved. Sepals hairy, elliptic- 

 oblong, glandular. Corolla fa in. long, hairy, lobes short, valval, stamens inserted 

 at the base of the corolla, disc cupular. ovaries truncate, hirsute. Follicles 3-5 in., 

 acuminate, narrowed into a stalk t in. long. Seeds villous, tip bearded with persistent 

 brown hairs and crowned with a long white deciduous •■•una. Yields I !aoutchouc of a 

 good quality. The Kangoon specimens, called U. luci'la, Benth, probably belong to 

 this sp. 



9. WRIGHTIA, R. Br. : Fl. Brit. Lad. iii. 652. 



Trees or shrubs, wood moderately hard, close-grained. Fl. in terminal 

 compound corymbiform cymes, 5-10 scales on the inside of the calyx at its 

 Corolla-tube cylindrical, very .short, usually a number of fleshy scales iu 

 the throat, lobes long, in bud overlapping to the left. Stameus iu the mouth 

 of the tube, filaments short broad, prolonged into a broad connective, hairy on 

 the back, anthers exserted, conniving around and adhering to stigma, cells 

 with .sclid spurs at the base. Follicles linear, connate or distinct. Seeds 

 linear, a deciduous tuft of hairs at the lower end, cotyledons convolute, radicle 

 short, superior. Species about 10, tropical Asia and Australia, one in Xatal. 



A. Corolla-tube (when the fl. opens) as long as or longer than sepals. 



1. W. tinctoria, R. Br. : Wight Ic. t. 444 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. '241. Vera. 

 Khirni, Dudhi, Hind.: Kola Kuda, Mar. ; Repala,Jedda Pala. Tel. : Yupala, 

 Hah , Kan. : Nila Pal< i. Tarn. 



A small deciduous tree, glabrous or pubescent, 1. membranous, elliptic-oblong, 

 shortly acuminate, blade 3-4, petiole ^-\ in. lone;. Fl. \-\ in. across, white 

 or pale yellow, iu lax spreading corymbs, ramifications slender. Corona of 

 numerous linear scales, varying in length, anthers prominent. Follicles 

 slender, 10-25 in. long, as a rule two. cohering at the tip. 



Deciduous forests B ma, Central Provinces and the Western Peninsula. Fl. 



March-July. The I. yield indigo. 2. W. religiosa, Benth. Tenasserim Kmv . Siam. 

 A small glabrous shrub, 1. lanceolate 1-3 in. long, fl. white } in. across, in few-fld. 

 cymes .,n long filiform pedicels, corolla-tube I in., much longer than sepals, filaments 

 distinct, ii" scales in the mouth of corolla. 



3. W. tomentosa, Koeiu. & Schuhes ; Wittht Ic. t. 448. 111. 1. 154.— 

 Syn. II'. mollissima, Wall. PI. Rar. t. 146.; W. Wdllichii, A. DC. ; Wij 

 Ic. t. 1296, Vern. Dudhi, Seeds: Indarjau, Hind.: .Thetta fain. 

 Tel.: Pala, Tarn. ; LettOkthein, Bnrm. 



A small deciduous tree, branchlets and leaves softly tomentose. L. elliptic 

 eliminate, blade :'• .">, jietiole }-£ in. Fl. with an unpleasant 

 smell, 1 in. across, pale yellow or yellowish-brown, turning into a dull purple, 

 in shortly pedunculate, stiff, erect, tomentose corymbs, corona orange of 5-10 

 oblong often laciniate scales. Fr. cylindric, 6-12 in. long, .'. in. diam., rough, 

 with numerous white elevated s[>ecks. two shallow furrows at the junction ,.f 

 carpels. 



Subhimalayan tract, ascending to 1,000 ft., rare west of the Bias. Bajputana. 

 Behar, A "am. Chittagong, Burma, tipper and Lower. Western I Fl. 



January June Ceylon. 



B. Corolla rotate, tube shorter than sepal-. 



I. W. coccinea - - kkim, outer hills to 1,000 ft. W. Duara Khasi hills. A 



small tree, 1. with a few scattered minute hairs, otherwise glabrous. Fl. bi 

 scarlet, in few-fld. nearly sessile terminal cymes, sepals round, \ in. diam. Corolla 

 U in. across, tube j iu. long, scales in the throat .'.. round, entire, J in. diam. 



Paramerla glandulifera, Benth. Borders of tidal forests, Andaman* rim. 



Malay Penins. aid Archip. A large glabrous evergreen soandent shrub, 1. somi 

 tenia te. coriaceous, shining, 2-6 iu. lone. !•'!. -mail, in pyramidal terminal and axillary 



