OlacacecB,^ 



CEYLON PLANTS 



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I have not had an opportunity of comparing this with A. Benthamianay 

 "Wight, Icon. t. 1153, which is described as having larger flowers than those of 

 this species. The Ceylon plant invariably turns blackish in drying. 



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6. MAPPIA, Jacq. 



1. M. foetida^ Miers, 1. c. p. 395.-3/- ovata^ Miers, 1. c, p. 3 



Stemomtrns 1 fwtidus, Wight, Icon. t. 955; Spicil. Neilgli. t. 23. 



c.p. 492. ^ _ , , 



Var. a. Gardneriana ; alahastris rotundatis. — Jf. Gardneriana, 



Miers, I.e. p. 396. 

 Var. ^. Championiana ; foUis ■membraiiaceia, alahastris ubiongis. — 



M. CJiampionianay Miers, 1. c. 397. 



Hab. One of the commoaest plants in the island, and to be met with 

 from the level of the sea, up to an elevation of 7000 feet." Norn. Yulg. 

 " Gandapaana-gas3." 



Owiii^- to its great range in elevation^ this plant varies a great deal in appearance 

 and in the texture of its growing parts, these being of a much firmer consistence on 

 the hills than in the neighbourhood of the sea, and more palpably so in dried than 

 in fresh specimens.- " ^ 



7. STEMONURUS, Blumo. 



1 b 



Stemonurns (in parte), Miers. Urandra, Thw, ^ . 



1. S- apicalis* Ttm.— Urandra apicaUs, Thw. in Hoolc. Kew Journ. 



of Bot. vol. vii. (1855) p. 211.— c.p. 2569. 

 KAn_ "Hai^r* fnrpafs at nil piftvation of from 1000 to 2000 feet, iSom, 



ndg 



Arbor ingens. RamuH 



Folia integra, coriacea, oblonga vel 



obovato-oblonga, abrupte brevi-acuminata, basi angustata, subtns palhiiiora, -i-O poll, 

 longa, 2-3 poll, lata, petiolo 5-8 lin, lon?:o. PeduncuH axillares, solitani vel bini, 

 petiolo breviores vel subjequUongi. Capitula .7-lS-ilora. Flares hermaphroditi, 

 petalis viridibus, basin versus pnrpurasceutibus, circiter 2 lin.^Iongis. /^J-f/^'J ob- 

 longa, subacute, 15 lin. longa, 8 lin. lata, viridi-purpurascens, dimidio apicah albido; 

 pntamine ligneo, cancellato, exterue fasciculato-fibroso. Embrf/o in axi albuunnis 

 copiosi, carnosi ; radicula snpera, cjlindrica, cotyledonihns parvis cordatis trqm- 



longa ; testa pericarpio consolidata. « x- t • ?• 



When describing this plant, two years ago. imdcr the name of Tjrandra aptcalis, 

 I had not the opportunity of referring to BJumc's Museum Bot. Ludg^ Batav., 

 and took it for granted that Jlr. Miers was correct in determuung Dr. \\ allich . 

 genus Gomphanrira to be identical ^y\i\i Siemonurus of Bh.rne Now however 

 I am satisfied that that learned botanist was in error, and that ^^ JM'''^ of 

 Blame is to be referred the genus Gomphandra. Blurae's definiUou of Slemonurus 

 as " drupa baccata, nudeo fibroso," does not apply to Gomphandya, though it 

 does to the species figured in the Mus. Bot. Lugd Bat., and to the plant 

 now under description. By a strange oversight. Mr. M,ers has read my accouu of 

 the structure of the seed of Gomphandra pohjmorpha, ^y,ght (Hooker s Journa of 

 Bot. vol. vii. p. 211), as if it were that of my Urandra apicah% and has thus 

 been under the erroneous impression (Linn;can Trans, vol. xxii p. 97 et seq.) 

 that the structure is the same in the two plants. It is very different, for in 

 Stemonnrus apicalis there is no appearance of the longitudinal division of the 

 albumen into two equal parts j the testa is firmly adherent to the penearp, and the 

 putamen is very peculiar in chai-acter, being ligneous", with several loug.tudinal 

 ••avilies filled with soft cellular matter, and external!y, when the flesh of the 



