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Gen. Car. ‘Trees- or shrubs: leaves oval or lancéolate! sti 
pules: broad at the base: panicles thyrsoid, terminal, many- flowered : 
flowers forming spikes or fascicles along the ultimate ramifications. 
of the panicle: calyx-tube somewhat globose, often striated: limb. 
ery short, with 5 small persistent teeth: corolla widening at the 
throat: limb spreading, 5-lobed, slightly twisted in mstivation and 
forming a globose or oval head to the flower-bud : filaments spring= 
ing from the very top‘of‘the tube, often very short: anthers oblong, 
exserted, oscillatory: ovary crowned With a fleshy. disk: style ex- 
serted, filiform: stigma of 2 largish oval thick segments: capsule 
globose, 2-celled, splitting.at the apex, loculicidal: seeds numerous. 
in each cell. 
(1) W. exserta. (Dec.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 402.—Dec. prod. IV. p. 411. 
Syn. Rondeletia exsertia, Roxb: fl. Ind. 1. p. 528,.—R, thyr- 
siflora, Heyne in Roth. Nov. Sp. p. 141.-—-R. Oryssensis, Roth.— 
R. Heynei, Roem. & Schult. 
Srrc. Cuar. Tree: young branches: villous: leaves petioled, 
oblong-lanceolate, upper. side pubescent, under velvety, glaucous: 
stipules densely pubescent, recurved above, kidney-shaped : branches. 
of the panicle villous, spreading: calyx hoary: corolla scarcely pu- 
bescent: tube very short, somewhat campanulate: ‘divisions recurv- 
ed’: filaments nearly as long as the segments of the corolla; capsule 
villous: ftowers small; pure’ white, fragrant. ; 
Peninsula, flowering in March. 
(2) W. Noromiana. (Wail.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I, p. 403. 
Syn, W. thyrsoidea, Roth.—Canthium thyrsoideum, Roem..& 
Schult.—Cupia thyrsoidea, Dec. prod. IV. p. 894. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 1033.—Spicil. I. t. 95. 
“Spec. Cuan. Tree: young shoots hirsute: leaves oblong, slight- 
ly tapering at both ends, upper side glabrous, under somewhat glau- 
cous and more or less pubescent: stipules triangular-ovate, recurv- 
ed above: branches of the panicle hirsute: calyx hoary: segments 
of the corolla recurved: capsule sprinkled with short hairs: flowers 
crowded, forming interrupted spikes, white, very fragrant. 
Neilgherries. Dindigul hills. Mysore. Ram Ghaut.and Warree. 
country. Flowering in January and February; 
(3) W. tincroria. (Dec.) 
Ident. Dec. prod. IV. p. 411. 
Syn. Rondeletia tinctoria, Roxb. fl. Ind. I. p. 522. 
