Tas. 6080. 
FAGRAIA zEyLantca. 
Native of Ceylon. 
Nat. Ord, Loganracra.—Tribe Facraea. 
Genus Facrma, Thunb. ; (DC. Prodr., vol. ix. p- 28). 
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Facrea zeylanica ; robusta, fruticosa, glaberrima, foliis 5—12-pollicaribus 
obovatis obovato-spathulatisve apice rotundatis sessilibus v. in petio- 
lum robustum angustatis crasse coriaceis, nervis paucis inconspicuis, 
cymis terminalibus 3-multifloris, floribus breviter et crasse pedicellatis, 
calycis ovoidei lobis rotundatis scarioso-marginatis, bracteolis paucis 
brevibus, corolle tubo 4-pollicari sursum infundibulari, lobis oblongis 
apice rotundatis, genitalibus exsertis, antheris magnis. 
Fraarma zeylanica, Thunb. Nov. Gen., vol. ii. p. 34; Act. Holm., 1782, p. 125, 
t.4; Lamk. Ill, t. 167, f. 2; Blume Rumphia, vol. ii. t. 78; 7) hwaites 
Enum., p. 200 et 425 ; DC. Prodr., vol. ix. p. 29; Benth. in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. Bot., 1857, p. 98. 
Soanpra oppositifolia, Moon Cat., p. 15. 
A native of the central province of Ceylon, where, according 
to Dr. Thwaites, it abounds on the banks of the river at 
Balangodde. It is one of the handsomest species of a fine 
tropical Asiatic and Polynesian genus, of which some twenty 
Species are enumerated by Bentham in his notes on Loganiacee, 
published in the Linnean Journal (cited above), in 1857, to 
which several more are now to be added from the Malayan 
Islands. One species, the F. obovata, is figured in this 
work (Tab. 4205). The individual here figured was sent from 
Ceylon by Dr. Thwaites, about ten years ago, and flowered 
in the Royal Gardens in J uly, 1873. 
Descr. A very stout glabrous spreading deep green thick 
and coriaceous-leaved shrub. Branches as thick as the little 
finger, bright green, as are all the parts, except the flowers, 
scarcely shining. eaves variable in length and breadth, 
five to twelve inches long, usually obovate, and narrowed 
into a very short, stout, semiterete petiole, which is, how- 
ever, sometimes one to one and a half inches long ; blade 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1874. 
