102 LXXT. unBiACEa:. (J. D. Hooker.) [Wehera. 



1. VT. corymbosa, Willd. ; Roxh. Fl. Ind. i. 696 ; glabrous, leaves 

 elliptic- or oHong-lanceolate acute or acuminate, coroUa glabrous externally, 

 tube broad about equalling the lobes, berries few-seeded. Oam-tn. Fi-uct. 1. 192; 

 Bot. Reg. t. 119. W. asiatica, Bedd. Fl. Sylv., Anal. Gen. xvi. f. 2 ; Kurz 

 For. Fl. ii. 47. W. glomeriflora, Kurz I. c. W. cerifera. Moon Cat. 19. Eon- 

 deletia asiatica, Linn. Oanthium corymbosum, Pers. Synops. i. 200. Oupea 

 corymbosa, DC. Prndr. iv. 394 Styloooryne sp.. Wall. Cat. 8408. S. Webera, 

 A.Rich.; W. ^ A. P-odr. 4:01 ; Wall Cai. 8401,ea,-ci. A. m^jarf,B.C.E.F. G.H.; 

 Thw. Enum. 148 ; Wt. le. t. 309, 584 ; DaU. ^ Gibs. Botnb. Fl. 119. S. ripda, 

 Wt. Ic. t. 1064. Polyozus? madraspatana, BC. I. c. 495. Pavetta Wightiana, 

 Wall. Cat. 6167.—Rheede Hort. Mai. ii. t. 23. 



Westeen Peninstjia, from the Concan southwards, and Ceylon, common. — 

 DiSTRiB. Malay Islands. 



A large shrub or small tree, glabrous except the cymes sometimes, almost olive- 

 tlack or brown when dry. Leaves 3-8 by |-3 in., coriaceous, shining above, often 

 glaucous beneath ; petiole short, stout ; stipules very coriaceous, acute or mucronate, 

 often sheathing. Ci/mes and flowers very variable in size, faintly odorous. Calyx 

 glabrous or pubescent; limb shortly or deeply lobed, lobes glabrous or ciliate. 

 Corolla |-| in. diam., lobes glabrous or puherulous within, white. Siyle hairy pr 

 glabrous. Beities size of a pea, with the calyx-limb persistent or not. — A very 

 variable plant. Var. cerifera of Thwaites, from Ceylon, is remarkable for its very 

 coriaceous leaves, and the copiously resinous secretion at the nodes, &c. ; a character, 

 however, of usual occurrence, according to Eoxburgh. 8. rigida,, Wt., is a robust 

 small-leaved form. 



2. W. odorata, Ro.vb. Hort. Beag. 15 ; Fl. Lnd. i. 699 ; leaves elliptic- 

 lanceolate acuminate glabrous, cymes many-fld. pubescent, flowers pedicelled, 

 corolla-tube slender pubescent shorter than the linear lobes. W. macrophylla, 

 Roxh. I. c. 697. Pavetta webersefolia, Br. in Wall. Cat. 6182 A., in part. P. 

 cerbereefolia (by error), Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 279. Stylocoryne Webera, Wall. 

 Cat. 8401 K. S. peuangensis, Miq. I. c. 207. Oupia macrophylla, DC. Pi-odr. 

 iv. 394. 



SiLHET, Assam, and the Khasia Mrs., De Silva, Griffith, &c. (Kew Distrib. 3009). 

 MuNKYPOOE, C. B. Clarice. Penang, Roxburgh, Wallich. 



A shrub, black when dry. Leaves 6-9 by 2-3 in., membranous ; petiole short ; 

 stipules acute, deciduous. Cymes large,. corymbose; bracts linear ; pedicels slender. 

 Calyx minutely toothed. Corolla-tube J in., lobes nearly twice as long. Ovules few. 

 Berries " size of a pea " (Roxb.). — I find no difference between the flowering specimens 

 from Bengal and Penang, but have seen fruits of neither. Eoxburgh describes the 

 berry of the Penang plant (macrophylla) as " many-seeded, as in W. corymbosa," that 

 of the Silhet one (pdorata) as having only 3-4 ovules in each cell. This differs from 

 corynibosa in the slender pubescent corolla-tube and the bracts. 



3. W. disperma, Sooh. f. ; leaves elliptic- or linear-lanceolate acumi- 

 nate glabrous, cymes pubescent many-flowered, corolla-tube broad pubescent 

 shorter than the lobes, berries 2-seeded. 



Silhet and the Khasia Mrs., Griffith (Kew Distrib. 2786); alt. 1-4000 ft., 

 J. D. H. ^T.T. 



A shrub. Leaves olive-brown when dry, 4-1 by 1 J-3 in., very variable in width ; 

 petiole ^-§ in. ; stipules triangidar-lanceolate. Cymes shortly pedunded, more robust 

 shorter and fewer-flowered than in W. odorata ; calyx larger obtusely-toothed. Corolla 

 similar, but with a broader tube. Ovary with 2 ovules in each cell (rarely more), 

 sunk collaterally in a large spongy placenta. Berries very much larger, J-i in. diam., 

 with one hemispheric seed in each. — A Bornean species (Beecari, 380) resembles this 

 closely in foliage and flowers, but I have not seen its fruit. 



