'418 ^UBIA CEm. [Wen dl andi a^ 



subequal, small, persistent. Corolla tubular salver- or funnel-shaped, 

 throat glabrous or hairy, lobes 4-5, imbricate in bud. Stamens 4-5, 

 between the corolla-lobes, filaments or elongate, anthers versatile, 

 exserted. Ovary 2-(rarely 3-) celled ; style filiform, stigma entire 

 2-fid. or 2-partite ; ovules numerous, on small globose placentas 

 adnate to the septum. Capsule small, globose, loculicidally, (rarely 

 septicidally), 2'Valved, many-seeded. Seeds very minute, horizontal, 

 compressed ; testa membranous, obscurely winged ; embryo short, 

 cylindric, in fleshy albumen. Species about 16, in Trop. Asia. 



Grey-tomentose, stipules recurved . • 1, W. exserta. 



Nearly glabrous, stipules erect . .2. W. tinctoria. 



1 W. exserta, DO. Trod, iv, 411; W. <Sr A. Prod- 402; Rr>yle III. 2S8 r 



Brand. For. Fl. 268 ;■ F. B. I. in, 37 ; Watt E.I).; Kanjilal For. Fl. 8ch. 



Circ. N-W. P. 203 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timh. 408; Collett Fl. Siml. 228; 



Goalee Fl. Bomb, i, 584. Rondeletia exserta Boxb.; Fl. Ind. i, 523. Vein. 



Bathna, chaulai (Saharanpur) ; hirsa tilka Sf ttlfci (Oudh). 



A small dec'duous rather crooked tree with rough brown bark. Branches 

 terete; young hranches, leaves, and inflorescence grey-tomentose. Leaves^ 

 4-9in.long by 1-3| in. wide, opposite, ovate-lanceolate, acute or acumin- 

 ate, entire, coriaceous, glabrate above, densely pubescent beneath ; 

 lateral nerves 12-20 pair; petiole ^-l in. long ; stipules ovate, acute, 

 recurved, persistent. Flowers subsessile, ^ in. across, white, fragrant, 

 arranged in sessile pyramidal panicles which exceed the leaves. 

 Calyx hairy, the lobes ovate or subulate; persistent. Corolla tube 

 shorter than the sub-acute reflexed lobes. Stamens exserted. Style 2-- 

 partite. Capsules -^-^ in., globose, white- tomentose. Seeds small, black, 

 rugose. 



Abundant on t^e Siwalik range, and especially on landslips ; also along 

 the base of the Himalaya eastward to Gorakhpur. Flowers during 

 March and April. Distpib. Trop. Himalaya westward to the Chenab 

 and eastward to Sikkim, and from Bengal to Cent, and S. India. A 

 quick-growing ornamental tree. The close-grained tough wood ia 

 valued for building purposes and for agricultural implements. The- 

 leaves are used as fodder. 

 2. W. tinctoria, B.C. Prod, iv, 411 ; Brand. For. Fl. 269 ; F. B. I. Hi, 



38; Watt E.D. Gamh. Man, Ind. Timb. 409. Eondeletia tinctoria Ec«6. 



Fl. Ind. i, 522. 



A small trse. Leaves opposite or ternate, 4-8 in. long and 2-4 in. wide, 

 elliptic ovate or obovate, acuminate, narrowed into the petiole, glabrous 

 and often shining above, paler and usually pubescent on the nerves 

 beneath or tomentose all over ; main lateral nerves 10-12 p^air, pro- 

 minent ; petiole |-f in.; sti'pnles large, variable in length, always with 

 erect points or with a laterally flattened rigid appendage. 

 Panicles large, spreading, pubescent pilose or tomentose. Flowers 

 sessile fascicled, i in. long, white. Calyx-teeth ovatev Corolla-tuh& 



