SosacecB.'] €Eylon plants. lOl 



Hab. Central Province, at an elevation of 6000 to 7000 feet. 



The usually bilocular ovary of this plant would seem to distinguish it principally 

 from Photinia integnfolia oi Lindley, in which the ovary is said to be "semper 



triloculare." 



2. RUBUS, Linn. 

 Sect. 1. Foliis pinnatis. 



1. R. lasiocarpus, Smitli, (W. et A. Prod. i. 299, cum sjn. ; Wight, 

 Icones, t. 232.)— c.p. 1533, 1534. 



Var. /3. subglaher. 

 Eep. ii. p. 19. 



Walp 



6000 



This species, like many other plants previously referred to, has, when growing in 

 the more elevated districts of the island, somewhat larger flowers than when it 

 occurs nearer the level of the sea. 



Sect. 2. Foliis ^-foliolaUs . 



flavus 



— R, Goureephul, Roxb. ; W. et A., 1. c. 298, enmsyn. j Wight, Icones, 

 t. 230.— c.p. 2596. 



Hab. Central Province, at an elevation of 4000 to 7000 feet. 



Sect. 3. Foliis simplicibv^. 

 3. R. rugosusj Smith, (W. et A. 1. c.) . . . - 



Var. a ; hracteis ovatis, integris vel ad apicem plus minus inciso- 

 dentatis ; fructihtis parvis, rubris. WigJit, Icones, t 225. — c.p, 2765. 



Var. ^; foliis minoribus acutioribusque ; stipuUs hracfcisque pro- 

 funde capilla^eo-incisis ; petalis parvis ; fructihus mediocribus, atro- 

 rubentibus. — _B. micropetalus, Gardn. in Calc, Joum^ of Nat. Hist, 

 vol. viii. p. 6.— c.p. 1536, 1537. 



Var. y; tomento pallido ; /o?m valde coriaceis rugosisque; stipuUs 

 iracteisqne plus minus profunde incisis ; pamrulis densis ; calycisiohis 

 ovato-lanceolatis, conspicue Aeuinix^-, fructihus mediocribus, atro-san- 

 guineis. — _B. Fairholmianus, Gardner, I.e. p. 5. — c.p. 134. 



Var. b ; aculeis brevibus ; stipuUs braeteisque plus minus profunde 

 incisis vel inciso-dcntatis ; pamculis paucifloris; Jloribus majoribus; 

 petalis calyce subajquilongis ; fnietibus majoribus nigris. — S, macros 

 carpus, Gardner, 1. c. p. 7.— c.r. 1535. 



Hab. Var. a. Not uncommon at an elevation of 1000 to 5000 feet. 

 'V'ar. )3, Eambodde, at 5000 feet. Var. y. Bopatalawe Plains (Gardner), 

 and Oova District, at 6000 feet. Var. S. Newera Ellia, etc., at 6000 to 

 7000 feet. 



The most characteristic forms of the above varieties might, in a less variable 

 genus, pass very well for species ; but, after an examination of numerous speci- 

 iiiens, I find it ^ite impossible to draw up such distinctive definitions of them as 

 could with propriety be considered specific, and therefore think it safer to describe 

 them as forms of one variable species, which I believe them to be. 



3. POTENTILIiA, Linn. 

 1. P. Mooniana, Wight, Icones, t, 233. — ? P . polypJiyllay Wall. Cat. 



1026 ; Lehm. ; Walp. Rep. ii. p. 30.— c.p. 2767. 



