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* Erect shrubs or trees, unarmed; stigma entire, 
x Cymes or corymbs leaf-opposed. 
All parts except the inflorescence glabrous . . . F 
x & Cymes terminal or in the forks of the branchings, 
All parts, also the inflorescence, quite glabrous. . < 
Inflorescence pubescent S ‘ ‘ . 7 P ‘ ° 
*k Shrubs, usually scandent, with curved or straight spines ; 
J lobed. 
- W. oppositifolia, 
. W. Asiatica, 
W. glomeriflora. 
> Spines recurved.—Scandent shrubs. 
© Inflorescence quite glabrous. 
Corolla-tube $-1} in. long . : ; . . . 
Corolla-tube hardly longer than the calyx, 2 lin. long . ‘ 
nflorescence and calyx appressed-pubescent. 
Calyx-tube about 3 lin. long : Zi ‘ % : ‘i - W. bispinosa. 
Spines straight.—Erect or straggling shrubs. 
Flowers sessile or nearly so, between 2 connate bractlets ‘ - W. fasciculata, 
Flowers solitary, on slender not bracted pedicels . . - W. myrtifolia. 
. W. longiflora. 
. W. Siamensis, 
* Stigma entire—Erect shrubs or trees, unarmed. 
1. W. oppositifolia, Roxb.—An evergreen tree (30—40 + 15— 
20+2—3), flowering already while still a shrub, all parts glab- 
rous; bark about ¢ in. thick, greyish brown, even, finely fissured ; 
cut greenish brown; stipules triangular, acuminate, persistent; leaves 
oblong to broadly, lanceolate, acute at the base, on a 2-3 lin. 
Var. 1, densiflora; calyx 2 lin. long or somewhat longer, almost 
glabrous, the limb more bell-shaped ; flowers in shorter cymes ; 
erries the size of a large pea. 
Var. 2, floribunda: calyx about 1} lin. long or shorter, densely 
pubescent, the limb shorter; flowers in densely pubescent, divaricate, 
slender, corymbose cymes ; berries half the size of the former. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of the eastern slopes of the 
Pegu Yomah and Martaban down to Tenasserim and the Andamans ; 
Giee : var. 2: Andamans.—Fl, Apr.June; Fr. Oct.—s.—SS.=SiS.— 
REMARKS.—Wood yellowish white, turning brown, heavy, very close-grained 
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and of a very fine grain 
2. W. Flomerifiora, Kz.—An evergreen tree (20—30+8—10 
+2—3), all parts glabrous or the leaf-buds pubescent; stipules 
deciduous ; leaves obovate- to elliptically-lanceolate, acuminate 
