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of three feet, and is quite smooth in every part. Stem round. 

 Leaves whorled in fours, lanceolate, acuminate at each end, 

 nearly sessile, with very numerous veins proceeding at right 

 angles from the costa to a marginal vein. Flowers white, in 

 terminal cymes. Bracteae subulate, much shorter than pe- 

 dicels. Calyx very small, five-parted, ovate, acute. Corolla 

 an inch long, hypocrateriform : the tube inflated at the end. 

 Limb contorted, five-parted, with ovate, acuminate, spreading 

 segments, which are cordate at the base ; orifice of tube a 

 little hairy, with a fleshy entire rim : in the inside very villous. 

 Hypogynous scales none. Anthers placed in the inflated part 

 of the tube, subulate, smooth, bright yellow, surrounding the 

 stigmas in a cone. Ovarium double, seated in a fleshy yellow 

 disk, which has on each side a tooth opposite the commissure 

 of the ovaria. Style filiform, simple. Stigmas mitreform, 

 bright green, contracted in the middle, intruse at the base. 



Propagated by cuttings ; it grows well in sandy peat and 

 loam. 



IX. Wrightia tinctoria. JR. Brown. 



W. foliis ellipticolanceolatis ovatisque acuminatis glabris, ramis corymbisque 

 divaricatis, corollae tubo calyce duplo longiore, folliculis distinctis. R. Brown in 

 Wern. Trans. I. p. 75. 



A bushy stove plant, occasionally throwing up vigorous 

 shoots which twine round any thing that is near them. The 

 leaves are opposite, oval, taper-pointed, lanceolate, of a mem- 

 branous texture, and quite smooth. The flowers are white, 

 and appear in July in small trichotomous racemes from the 

 axillae of leaves on the old wood ; they are remarkable for a 

 delicate five-lobed fringe with which the orifice of their tube 

 is surmounted. 



Brought from the Botanic Garden, Calcutta, in 1822, by 



