258 Contrih lit ions toiocirds a Knowledge of the Burmese Flora. 



Wrightia, R. Br. 



Conspectus of Species. 



* Throat of corolla furnished with scales or fringes. 



X Corolla-throat fringed with a ring of branched long filiform scales. 



All parts glabrous ; corolla white, the lobes linear-oblong W, tinctoria. 



X X Scales of corolla-throat thick and fleshy, entire or lobed. 

 All parts especially the leaves, shortly and densely pubescent ; corolla-lobes broad, the 



scales of the throat cuneatc, 2 — 3-lobulate, W. mollissima. 



All parts glabrous ; corolla red, the lobes broad, the scales large, rounded, obsoletely 

 crenate, , W. coccinea. 



* * Corolla-throat quite nalcecl. 



Glabrous, the leaves small and narrow ; pedicels filiform ; corolla small, white, 



. . W. religiosa. 



1. W. TiNCTOEiA, R. Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. I. 73 ; Wight Icon, 

 t. 444 ; Bot. Reg. t. 933 ; DC. Prod. VIII. 406 ; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. t. 241 

 (Nerium tinctoriiom, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 4). 



Hab. Burmah (according to Rev. F. Mason), probably Ava ? 



2. W. MOLLISSIMA, Wall. Cat. 1627 and PL As. rar. II. t. 146 ; 

 DC. Prod. YIII. 405. (W. WallicUi, DC. Prod. VIII. 405 ; Dalz. and 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 145?). 



Hab. Common in the lower and upper mixed forests, from Chitta- 

 gong and Ava down to Tenasserim, up to 2000 ft. elevation. — Fl. April, 

 May ; Fr. CS. 



3. W. COCCINEA, Sims. Bot. Mag. t. 2696 ; Bot. Cab. t. 894 ; Wight 

 Icon. t. 442 ; DC. Prod. VIII. 407. {Nerium coccineum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 II. 2). 



Hab. Chittagong hills. 



4. W. RELIGIOSA, Bth. Gen. pi. II. 713. {Echites religiosa, Teysm. 

 and Binn. in Nat. Tydsch. Ned. Ind. XXV. 48). 



Hab. Tenasserim and the adjoining Siamese provinces. — Fl. Fr. HS. 



