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WRIGHTIA tinctoria. 
Dyers Wrightia. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNTA. .— 
Nat. ord. ArocyNEm. 
_ WRIGHTIA R. Br. Corolla hypocrateriformis:. Faux coronata squa- 
mis 10 divisis. Stamina exserta. Filamenta fauce inserta. | Anthere 
sagittatee, medio stigmati coheerentes. Ovaria duo coherentia. Stylus 
filiformis apice dilatato. Stigma angustius. Squame 5-10, basi calycis 
extra corollam insertee, null hypogyne. Foldiculi distincti y. cohzrentes, 
placentis adnatis. Brown in act. Wern. 1. p. 73. 
W. tinctoria ; foliis elliptico-lanceolatis ovatisque acuminatis glabris, ramis 
corymbisque divaricatis, corolle tubo calyce duplo longiore, folliculis 
distinctis. Brown l.c.p.75. 
Nerium tinctorium. Roxb. hort. beng. 19. } 
Caulis subvolubilis, frutescens. Folia opposita, subsessilia, ovato-lunceo- 
lata, acuminata, membranacea, utrinque glaberrima, supra viridia opaca, sub- 
tus pallidiora venis prominentibus reticulata. Cymi axillares, pauciflori, tri- 
chotomi, glaberrimi. Pedicelli virides, teretes, graciles. Bractew subulate. 
Sepala 5, ovata, transverse corrugata, gibbosa. ‘Squamule inter calycem 
et corollam minime subulate. Corolla alba, glabra, hypocrateriformis, tubo 
laciniis duplo breviore: Limbus patens, 5-partitus, laciniis linearibus, supra 
pubescentibus, ad apicem incurvulis, ad basin appendicibus totidem fimbriatis 
per processus breviores filiformes connexis coronam formantibus. Tubus 
carnosus, intis mellifluus, basibus filamentorum gibbosis pubescentibus semi- 
clausus. Stamina 5, laciniis alterna, ore inserta. Filamenta brevia, line- 
aria, incurva. Anthere subulate, acuminate, in cono conniventes, laciniis 
corolle multd breviores, basi sagittate, dorso subpubescentes, apice ciliato 
stigmati fusiformi medio annulato adherente, Ovyarium glabrum, ovatum. 
Stylus jiliformis. Squamee hypogyne nulle. 
For the opportunity of making a drawing of this very 
rare plant, we are indebted to the Horticultural Society, 
to whom it had been presented in 1824 by the Court of 
Directors of the Honourable East India Company. It 
flowered in June in the stove, where it requires consider- 
able heat. : 
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