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uppermost axils : flowers numerous, swiallj white or rose-coloured, 

 the peduncles and pedicels at length bright red : berries ovoid, 1- 

 ^eded, shining. 



Goiumon in the Concans. Hindostan. Peninsula. Circar 

 Bfioimtains. Bengal, flowering nearly all the yfeaf, 



(2) O, Neilgii&k,ri!NS|. (7J. JV-) 



Ident. Wight's Icon,, vol. IV. — Dalz, Bomb. flor. p. 144. 



Engrav. Wight's Spicil. II. t. 159. — Icon,, t. 1292. 



Spec. Char. Shrubby, erect, glabrous : leaves confined to the. 

 terminal branchiets, older tranches naked, oblopg-elliptic, broader 

 Ijowards the apex, acute at both -ends : corymbs axillary, cymose, 

 (trichotortious : flowers white : berries connate at the b^se, , ovoid, 

 ^ark brownish-purple when ripe. 



Neilgherries, about Conoor and Kotagherry, flowering 6-om July 

 to September. 



(3) 0, MACROCARPUM. (2?. W.) 



Menu Wight's Spicil. II. p. 53.— Icon. vol. IV. 



Spec. Char. Shrubby, glabrous : leaves broad^obovate, elliptic, 

 abruptly acuminated, acute : corymbs axillary, lax : calycine lobes 

 Ijnear-subulate : nut pbij)vate, slightly compressed, tubercled. 



Pulney Hills. 



(4) O. Belgaumense. {R. W.). 



Ident. Wight's Spicil. II. p. 55. — loon. vol. IV. 



Spec Chau. Erect glabrous shrub : leaves elliptic, oMong, 

 obtuse or acuminate : corymbs long-pedunxded, conJpact, niany- 

 floweffid : flowers on long pedicels: calyciwe lobes .djilat^d : tube, 

 of corolla long, slender, lobes of the limb befor? expansioniiijivolute- 

 iy imbricated, farming a round capitulum. 



Belgaum. 



GENUS V, WRIGHTIA. 



Pentaiidria Hlonogynia. Sex: Systt 



Deriv. Named after the late Dr. William Wright, a Scoitcji- 

 f hysician and Botanigl;, resident ip Jamaica. 



Gen. Cha]^. Calyx S-parted^ witji 5 scales or glands at the 

 base, of whitfh 2 are opposite the base of the 2 'interior lobes, and 

 the fifth opposite the edge of another lobe, hence tliey are all nearly 

 alternate with the lobes of the calyx : corolla S-cleft : tube usually 

 short : lobes twisted at the right in aestivation : throat crowned 

 with appendages, equal or unequal, in the latter case the larger ones 



