

CaetaceceS] cetlox plants. 



129 



Sect. DiplocUnium. 



4. B. cordifolia, 



^, , . -Uipf-ochmum cordifoUum, Wight, Icon. t. 181G ; 



Klotz. 1. c. p. 71 ; Walp. 1. c. p. 904— c.p. 3584. 



Hab. On shady banks, in the Batticaloa and Bintenne Districts at 

 no great elevation. 



Ceylon specimens differ a little from Dr. Wight'g figure in having the petioles 

 more or less pilose, and the flowers rather larger, but thev closely resemble it in 

 other respects, , • " 



Another species of Begonia (c.P. 3460) occurs in the south of the island, but my 

 specimens are too imperfect to describe from. The stem is a few inches in length, 

 closely pitted with the scars of the fallen leaves, and the whole plant is covered with 

 a dense red pubescepce, 



LXXIII. CRASSULACE.^. 



1. KALANCHOE, Adams. 



; W. et A. Prod. i. p. 359?— c.p. 540, 



3000 



blabernma, lJ-3-pedalis. Fo^ia ovalia, crenato-serrata, longiuscule petiolata, 

 foraha acuta, radicalia valde obtusa. Cym^s la^?e, paniculate. Fhres lutei. 



rubro-tiiicti. 



^^^^ ^*^*^^s fro^ the described form of K, florihunda in being perfectly smooth, 

 ine branches of the cyme, too, of the present plant can hardly be called ra. 

 cemiform. •» 



2^ K, laciniata, DC. (W. et A., 1. c. cum syn. ; W 



Province, Moon. II, 



- X ^^^ uot found this species, nor are there specimens of it in this Herbarium, 



but Mr. Ahvis, the draughtsman of this establishment, assures me he has seen it 

 errowiupf wilri /^ti +i,^ i,:ii t^_ _ i_ 



growing wfld on the hills near Kandy. 



2. BRYOPHYLLUM, Salisb, 



TT ^" ^^y*^^^^^^ Salisb. (W. et A., 1. c. cum syn.)— c.p. 541. 

 t"*"^* a ^* ^^^ uncommon ; up to an elevation of 5000 feet. 

 ^^g. '' Akka-paana," *'liata-gowa," Said to have been introdu 



Kom, 



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LXXIV. CACTACE.E, 



1. EHIPSALIS, Gffirtn. 



Tl ^' ^^^^sytha, Gaertn. (DC. Prod. iii. p. 476.)— c.p. 2976. 

 Hab. jN"ot uncommon ; upon rocks and trees throughout the Central 

 •iTonnce, and certainly indigenous. 



Mamt teretes. Flores albidi. Calycis segmenta 4-5, acuta, valde inscqualia, apice 

 1? /*^* ^"^^^' Idala 5-6, oblonga, obtusa. Stamina circiter 20. Ovarium incom- 

 plete 3-4-loculare, i)luri-ovn!atum^ Sff/lus simplex. St7p??a 3-4-lobatum. Bacca 

 . ' ^Ihida, subtranslucens, pisi parvi ma^itudine. Semina oblonga, niera, nitida, 

 mconspicue striata. 



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