192 APOCYNER. [Strophanthus, — 
4. §. caudatus (Hehites caudatus, Burm.).—A large scandent 
shrub, all parts glabrous ; leaves oblong to elliptical, tapering on a 
3-4 lin. long petiole, 2-4 in. long, shortly and often bluntish acumi- 
nate, entire, glabrous, firmly membranous; flowers rather conspi- 
cuous, rose-coloured, with yellowish tails, on 1-2 lin. long pedicels; 
forming a lax, dichotomous, glabrous, longer or shorter peduneled 
cyme at the end of the branches or terminating the young branch- 
lets; bracts all linear, 3-4 lin. long, membranous, flaccid and 
reflexed ; calyx-lobes conform with the bracts and similarly reflexed ; 
corolla about 3 in. long, the lobes produced into 14-2 in. long tails; 
scales linear, acuminate; anthers shorter than the soft deciduous 
bristles. 
Has.—Tenasserim.—Fl. Jan. 
WRIGHTIA, R. Br. 
Calyx 5-parted, with 5 to 10 broad scales at the base inside. 
Corolla rotate-salver-shaped, with a cylindrical usually short tube, 
twisted in bud, the throat with a crown of 5 or 10 scales either — 
distinct or united in a ring. Stamens inserted at the throat 5 
filaments very short and broad ; anthers sagittate, exserted, cohering 
m a cone round the stigma. Hypogynous disk or scales none. 
Ovary of 2 carpels distinct or connate, but readily separable, many- — 
ovuled. Follicles paired, connate and marked by 2 lateral furrows. — 
Seeds numerous, oblong, with a crown of hairs at one end.—T) es 
or shrubs, milky, with opposite leaves. Flowers often showy, 2 
terminal or spuriously axillary corymb-like cymes. Bracts small. 
* Throat of corolla furnished with scales or fringes. 
lg gta age the leaves, shortly and densely 
Corolla-lobes lisead scales of throat cuneate, 2-3-lobulate . W. mollissima. 
> All parts glabrous. 
Corolla white, the lobes linear-oblong, the throat fringed by a 
ring of branched, long, filiform scales 
Corolla red, the lobes broad ; scales large, rounded, obscurely ; : 
er eee 
W. tinctoria. 
om Ceeclli tical naked. : : 
Glabrous ; leaves small ; pedicels filiform ; flowers small, white . W. religiosa. 
1. W. mollissima, Wall. (W. tomentosa, Roem. & Schult. i 
Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 159; Brand. For. Fl. 323).—Let-top-thein— 
A tree (40 + 10—12+43—5) shedding leaves in H.S., all softer parts 
