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59. APOCYNACEiE. 



[Wfightia, 



Loaves glabrous. Coronal scales fimbriate 1. W, tinetoria. 



Leaves tomentose. Coronal scales short, obtuse ... 2. W. tomentosa* 



1 W, tinetoria, Br. iu Mem. Wern. Soc. 1. 73; FL Br. I. 3. 658; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. PL 145; Brandis For. Fl. 324; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t, 

 241, Kodmurhi^ kuda, K. ; Kala-kura, M, ; Bhurcuri^Vern. 



Central India, Western Peninsula and Burma. Tlirongbout the 

 presidency in deciduous forests. Fl. Mch.-Apl. Fr. Jan.-Feb. A small 

 deciduous tree. Bark scaly, smooth. Wood yellowish, white, close- 

 grained, moderately hard. Annual rings mari^ed by a line of pores. 

 Pores small; in short radial lines. Med. rays fine and very fine, very 

 numerous. Weighs about 50 lbs. to the cubic ft. Used for carving, 

 turnery and building purposes. Would not do as a substitute for boxwood 

 as has been suggested. The leaves yield a blue dye and a kind of indigo 

 and are used as wrappers for native cigarettes. 



2. W, tomentosa, Roem & Schultes Syst. IV. 114 ; Fl. Br. I, 3. 653 ; 

 Balz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 145 ; Brandis For. Fl. 323 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 159. 

 W. WalUchii, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 145 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 160. Kala 

 inderjow, tamhara-hura-i Vern. ; Bile kude gidda, K. 



Throughout India from the Indus eastwards and southwards to Oeylon, 

 Burma and Penang. Throughout the presidency, common in the moist ' 

 forests of the Konkan, rare in North Kdnara, on the Supa ghdts. FL 

 Apl.-June. Fr. Jan.-Feb, A small deciduous tree. Wood yellowish, 

 white, moderately hard, close-grained. Pores very small, m short radial 

 lines. Med. rays very fine and numerous. Weighs 30 lbs. to the cub. ft. 

 Used for turnery and carving. A red-coloured medicinal oil ia obtained 

 from the seeds, 



13. NERIUM,Linn. 



Shrubs. Leaves narrow, opposite or whorled. Flowers large, in 

 terminal cymes. Calyx-lobes with fleshy glands at the base inside. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped, lobes spreadiag, unequal-sided ; throat with 

 5 -toothed scales opposite the lobes. Anthers included, conniving 

 round the stigma; tips filiform; cells with long twisted, hairy- 

 appendages. Ovary of 2 carpels, many ovuled. Follicles adpressed, 

 separating when ripe. Seeds villous, coma terminal, albumen fleshy, 



N. odorum, Soland. in Hort. Kew Ed. I. V. 1. 297 ; Fl. Br. I. 3. 655 ; 



Brandis For. Fl. 328 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 114. Kunher, Vern.. 



Sind, Western Himalaya, Kashmir, Central India, Sind. Graham says 

 "-grows wild by the banks of Deccan rivers." Perhaps only a variety of 

 N. oleander J L., which is cultivated in gardens throughout the presidency. 

 Fl. Apl.-June, and nearly throughout the year. Brandis. 



U. BBAUMONTIA, Wall. 



Evergreen climbers. Leaves opposite. Flowers large, white, in 

 terminal cymes ; bracts leafy. Calyx 5-divided, glandular inside at 

 the base. Corolla boll-shaped with a short tube, lobes overlapping 



