Wendlandia
(named in honour of Henry Ludovicus Wendland, 1755-1828, once Curator of the Botanic Garden at Hanover). ORD. Rubiaceae. A genus comprising about sixteen species of stove or greenhouse shrubs or small trees, inhabiting tropical and sub-tropical Asia. Flowers white, pink, or yellow, small, two or three-bracteolate, sessile or pedicellate in terminal, thyrsoid, densely many-flowered panicles; calyx lobes four or five, small; corolla tubular, salver or funnel-shaped, the lobes four or five, imbricated in bud; stamens four or five, between the corolla lobes. Leaves opposite or ternately whorled; stipules entire or bifid. For culture of the two best-known species, see Vangueria. Both are stove trees.
W. paniculata (panicled). fl. as in W. tinctoria; panicle ample. July. l. opposite, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, 5in. to 8in. long, rarely narrow-obovate, more or less pubescent beneath; stipules recurved, broad, orbicular or oblong, with rounded tips. h. 6ft. India, 1820. W. tinctoria (dyer's). fl. white, sessile, fascicled; panicles large, spreading, pubescent, pilose, or tomentose. July. l. opposite, elliptic, ovate, or obovate, 4in. to 8in. long, acuminate, glabrous and often shining above, paler and pubescent or rarely glabrous beneath; stipules erect, large, with a subulate point or a laterally-flattened, rigid appendage. h. 6ft. India, 1825.