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Ternsfrcemiacece.'} 



CEYLON 



NTS 



41 



corresponds with that which he gives of Carria sjieciosa, the cotyledons being per- 

 fectly flat, and not plaited. 



3. SAROSANTHERA, Korthals. 



r 



1. S. lasiopetala, Tliw. — Cleyera lasiopetala, Wight, 111. i. p. 99, 

 Eim/a lasiopetala, Gardner, 1. c. vol. vii. p. 446. — c.p. 775 (776, 783). 



!Sab. Common in the forests of tke Central Province, at an elevation 

 of 6000 feet and upwards. 



Arbor mediocris. JRamuli teretes, minute strigosi. FoHa obloago-lanceolata, 

 obtusa "vel subacuminata, retusa, margine revoluta, minute denticulata, superne 

 glabra, subtus minute et parce strlgosa, 2^-4 poll, longa, f-1 poll. lata. FeduncuU 

 axillares, solitarii, 1-flori, cernui, circiter 8 lin. loiigi, apice incrassati. Flores her^ 

 maphrodiii, 6-8 lin. in diam., externe sericeo -strigosi ; petalis albidia, Fructus 

 globosus, carnosus nee pulposus, circiter 5 lin. in diam. 



This description is taken principally from the one published by Dr. Gardner. 



4. EURYA, Thunb. 



1. E. Japonica, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 191, t. 25. 



Yar. a, Thunhergii ; ramnlis teretibus, glabrig. — E. Japonica, DC. 

 Prod. i. 525. ■ E, elUptica, Gardner, 1. c. vol. vii. p. 443.— c.p. 777 (787). 



^ dec. ^, acuminata; ramulis teretibus, pilosis. — E. acuminata, DC. 

 Prod. i. 525. E. memhranacea, Gard. 1. c. vol. vii. p. 444,— c.p. 1078 

 (785, 786). 



Var. y. ChiTtensis; ramulia angulosis, pilosis. — J?. CJtinensis, E.Br. 

 Abel's Voy. App. p. 379 i DC. 1. c. ; Bentham in Hook. Kew Journ. of 

 Bofc. vol. iii. (1851) p. 307. E. Ceylanica, Wight, 111. i. 98 5 Gardner, 

 b c: vol. vii. p. 444.— c.p. 2600. 



Var. h, parvifolia > ramulis angulosis, pilosis ; foliis minoribus, 

 paUidis. — E, parvifolia, Gardner, I.e. voL vii. p. 445. — c.p. 784. 



Hab. Vars. a, ^, and S in the more elevated parts of the island, up 

 to 8000 feet ; b in exposed situations ; var. /3 from a little above the 

 sea-level, up to an elevation of 5000 feet, very abundant. Norn. vulg. 

 " Neyadasse-gass." 



It is only after a very careful and long-continued study of these plants that I 

 have ventured to unite them, as forms of one variable species. T have been quite 

 unable to discover, in those parts where other botanists have thought they existed, 

 any definite difference of structure sufficient to constitute a distinction of species. 

 The number of the stamens and apparent length of the style vary in the same variety 

 just as much as between the so-called species, and it seems to me quite impossible 

 to' draw a clear line of distinction between the several varieties, since specimens are 

 to be met with combining them all by intermediate lints. • _ 



Cochlospcrmum Gossypium, DC, is not found in a wild state m the island, but 

 only, as Dr* Gardner has remarked, in the vicinity of temple?. 



XXXIV. OLACACE^. 



TRIBE OFILFJE. 



OPIIiIA. Roxb 



Wight, lUust 



t. 40.— c.p. 2916 (1147). " . 



Hab. Hot, drier parts of the island, at no great elevation. 



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