Wrightia

Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire or faintly crenate, shortly petiolate, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate; stipules 0. Inflorescence a terminal or pseudoaxillary cyme. Flowers small to rather large, usually scented. Calyx divided almost to base, glandular within; sepals imbricate, ovate. Corolla +/- salver-shaped; tube cylindric, usually short, with variously divided or entire, connate or free appendages in throat (rarely without); lobes longer than tube, overlapping to the left. Stamens inserted in mouth of corolla; filaments short, stout, with tuft of hairs at back; anthers 4-locular, conniving in a cone, exserted, lanceolate, acute to acuminate, sagittate, with a small, projecting appendage from foot of connective. Disc a narrow rim or 0. Ovary of 2 free carpels; style filiform; stigma capitate with small or obscure frill at base and minute, cleft tip. Mericarps 2, follicular, cylindric or spindle-shaped, subparallel. Seeds cylindric or spindle-shaped, glabrous except for basal tuft of hairs. x = 11.