74 RUBIACER, [ Wendlandia. 
base, on a ? in. long shortly pubescent petiole, shortly and 
bluntish acuminate, 3-4 in. long, entire, membranous, on both sides 
shortly and harshly pubescent ; flowers minute, white, sessile, in 
small spikes, forming an ample, shortly pubescent, brachiate panicle 
at the end of the branchlets; calyx appressed-hispid, hardly $a 
line long, the teeth small, 3-angular, acute; corolla glabrous, 1-14 
lin. long, the lobes = 3 capsules globular, 4 a line in diameter, 
appressed minutely hispi 
Has.—Ava, Khakyen hills.—Fr. May. 
2. W, tinctoria, DC. ; Bedd. Sylv. Madr, 130; Brand. For. Fl. 
269.—An evergreen tree (20—30 + 8—12 +2—23), sometimes re- 
maining shrubby, the young shoots more or less shortly pubescent; 
bark about 3 in. thick, brown, fibrous, tortuously and longitudinally 
fissured ; cut dryish, brown ; stipules triangular, acuminate; leaves 
broadly lanceolate to obovate-lanceolate, on a more or less puberu- 
lous petiole + to 4 inch long, 3-4 in. long, acute or acuminate at 
e base, entire, bluntish or blunt-acuminate, almost coriaceous or 
“membranous, glabrous above, beneath more or less shortly 
puberulous and often quite glabrescent; flowers small, white or 
—— white, sessile, in little spikes forming an ample more or 
less pubescent or tomentose panicle at the end of the branchlets ; 
calyx about 4 a line long, greyish pubescent, the teeth minute; 
almost sessile between the lobes; capsules globular, hardly a line n 
diameter, sparingly and shortly pubescent, 
Has.—Frequent in the open and dry forests from Ava and Martaban down 
to Tenasserim, ascending also into the hill Eng and drier hill forests, up to 4,000 
ft. elevation.— Fl. Febr. March ; Fr. March, Apr.—l.—8S.=Dil. CaS. Metam. 
ReEMARxKs.—Wood dark brown, fine-grained, 
3. W. glabrata, DC.—An evergreen tree (20—25410—12+ 
4—1}), all parts: quite glabrous ; stipules broad, long and abruptly 
elevation, —F, March, 
4. W. ligustrina, Wall.—An everoreon small tree, all parts 
glabrous; stipules rounded, minutely alee ; leaves obovate 
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