Wrightia.'] xciv. apoctnaceji. (J. D. Hooker.) 653 



short, superior. — ^Disteib. Species about 12, tropical African, Asiatic and 

 Australian. 



W. religiosa, Benth. in Gen. PL ii. 713 (Echites religiosa, Tnjsm. Sf Mnnend. 

 Hort. Bogor. 126) ; cultivated at MaUcca {Kerb. Maivgay), is a native of Siam. It is 

 a small tree with elliptic leaves ^-1^ in. long, capillary peduncles and pedicels, and . 

 small flowers without coronal scales. 



* Culyx-segments half the length of the short cwoUa-tuhe or shorter, 



1. W. tiuctoria, Br. in Mem. Wern. Soc. i. 7.3 ; glabrous, leaves elliptic- 

 ovate or -lanceolate or obovate-oblong obtusely acuminate or caudate, coronal 

 scales fimbriate. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 406; Wall. Cat. 1625 ; Wight Ic. t. 444 •,. 

 Bah. Sr Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 146 ; Brand. For Fl. 324; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 114; 

 Kurz For. Fl. ii. 193; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 241 ; Bot. Beg. t. 933. Nerium tinc- 

 torium, Boxb. Sort. Beng. 19, and Fl, Ind. ii. 4. 



Centeal India and throughout the Westekn Pewinsui.a. Bibma (K-urs). — 

 DiSTEiB. Timor {Herb. Mus. Paris). 



A small tree, twigs glabrous or puberulous. Leaves 3-& by 1-1^ in.; nerve» 

 6-12 pairs, faint till the leaves are old, then strong teneath ; base acute or rounded; 

 petiole very short. Gymes sometimes 5 in. diam., with slender spreading diehotomous 

 branches ; bracts minute ; flowers white, \-\ in. diam. Sepals ovate, obtuse. Corolla- 

 lobes linear-oblong, scales linear scattered. Stamens large. Follicles 6-18 in. or 

 more, cylindric, slender, smooth, tips adhering. Seeds | in., glabrous except for the 

 coma, linear. — Foliage very variable. I have seen no Birmese specimen. The Timor 

 plant is undoubtedly the same. 



Vab. Eotkii ; branches and leaves beneath puberulous. W. Eothii, G. Bon Gen. 

 Syst. iv. 86 ; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 406 ; Wight lo. t. 1319. W. tinctoria. Both Nov. PI. 

 Sp. 121.— Deccan Peninsula. 



2. W. ang'ustifolia, Thwaites Fnum. 193 ; glabrous, leaves lanceolate 

 obtuse, coronal scales ligulate tips lacerate. Beddome For. Fl. Anal, Gen. 160, 



Ceylon ; Dambool and Triucomalee, Gardner. 



A small tree; branches slender. Leaves 1^-4 by ^-§ in., almost black when dry, 

 nerves 6-12 pairs ; petiole very short. Ci/mes and flowers as in W. tinctoria, but 

 the coronal scales very different, as long as the anthers, and laciniate at the tip only.. 

 Fruit unknown. 



3. W. tomentosa, Roem. ^ Schultes Syst. iv. 414 ; densely tomentose, 

 leaves elliptic caudate-acuminate, base acute, cymes many-flowered, corolla- 

 lobes linear-oblong, coronal scales short obtuse entire orlobulate. A. DC. Prodr. 

 viii. 404 ; Wall. Cat. 1628 ; Wight Ic. t. 443, and 111. ii. t. 154 ; Dah. <§• Gibs, 

 Bomb. Fl. 145; Brand. For. Fl. 323; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI, 114; Beddome 

 For. Fl.,And. Gen. 159. W. mollissima, WaU. Cat. 1627; Pl.Bar.Ti. t. 126; 

 Kurz For. Fl. ii. 192. , W. Wallichii, A. DC. I. c. 406 ; Dcdz. 8f Gibs. I. c. •, 

 Kurz I. c. ; Wight Ic. t. 1296 ; Beddome I. c. 160. W. Coraia, Wall. Cat. under 

 1615; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 407. W. Hamiltoniana, Wall. Cat. 4461. Hunteria 

 eugenifolia, Wall. Cat. 1615. Nerium tomentosum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 6. N. 

 Coraia, Hb. Ham, N. ? tinctorium, Hh. Ham. — Bheede Hort. Mai. ix. t. 3, 4. 



Teopicai, India ; from the Indus eastwards and southwards to Ceylon, Birma and 

 Penang, ascending to 2000 ft. in the Himalaya, and to 4000 in the Nilgherries. 



A small usually crooked deciduous-leaved tree, bark corky. Leaves 3-6 by 1^-2^ 

 in., often tomentose on both surfaces, dark brown when dry, nerves 10-14 pairs; 

 petiole i in. Cymes peduncled, corymbose, many-fld. ; flowers 1 in. diam., yellowish 

 with orange coronal scales. Sepals half as long as the corolla-tube, rounded. 

 Corolla-lobes linear- or obovate-oblong, coronal scales very variable. Anthers white. 

 Follicles 6-12 by J in., connate into a cylinder, with a deep groove on eath side till 

 maturity, rough with tubercles. Seeds slender, ^-| in., coma pure white.— There is 



