Eupliorliacece.l ceylon plants, 283 



ture ofits Itaves; larger, more cordate aad acmninatoil stipules, and larger calyx. 

 In both, the capsule, when fi-esh, is slightly tubcrculatcd. I suspect they will prove 

 to be but forms of one species. . » 



9. P- myrtifolius, Wight, Tc. t. 1902-2.— c.p. 650. 



Hab. Banks of rivers, up to an elevation of 1500 feet. 



Frutex majusculus, valde ramosus. ToVm basi augustata, subauriculata. Flores, 

 cuni pcdicellis, rufesceutes. 



A very distiuct and elegant species, and becoming under cultivation a compact 

 and extremely ornamental shrub. 



10. P. flaccidus, Tliw. ; annua, erecta, plus minus ramosa, glabra ; 

 ramis striatis, parum angulatis ; foliis teneris, ovatis, subacutis, mucro- 

 natis ; sti'pulis anguste lanceolatis, petiolo longioribus ; floe. masc. 

 2-3-nis, brevi-pedicellatis ; floe. F(EM. majoribus, in axillis versus 

 apicem ramoruni solitariis; pedicellis triangularibus, superne incras- 

 satis, caljce subsequiloDgis.— c.p. 320 (510, 2147). 



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



■i— 3-pudalis. Folia \~1\ poll. longa,^^^2c/(? ^-1 lin. longo. Sepala ovato-ob- 

 longa, subacuta. Flor. masc. glandtda rotundata;, tubercnlatpe. Flor. fcem. 

 discus margine minutissime creuulatus. Stylus 3-partitus, apicibus bifidis, diver- 

 gentibus. 



37, EPISTYLIUM, Sw., Baill. 



Sect. J!or,fcevi, Q-sepalis. — Rekfia, Wight, Miq. Fiiococcus, ITassk. 



I 



1. E. norxhixnAviia.—SeidiaJlonhiuida, Wight, Ic. t. 1903. Plt^l- 

 lantJms longiflorus, Heyne. — c.p. 71, 2531. 



Hab. Central Province, at an elevation of 3000 to 5000 feet. 



2. E. montanum, .Thw. ; glabrum ; foliis ellipticis vel oblongis, 



abrupte brcvissime acuminatia, basi ina?qualibus, brevi-petiolatis ; ^^c?^- 

 cellis folio longioribus ; sepalis ovatis, fimbriatis ; floe, foem. disco 

 obscure 6-lobo, sublsevi ; capsula glabra. — c.p. 2148. 

 Hab. Horton Plains, at an elevation of 7000 feet. 



3-4.pedale. Folia 21-7 lin. longa, li-4 lin. lata. Flor, masc. l-Z-m \ f asm. 

 solitarii. 



Allied to the preceding, which it much resembles, but distinguished from it by the 

 absence of pubescence ; smaller leaves j fimbriated sepals ; and the nearly entire and 

 smooth disk of the female flowers. 



3. E. latifolium.— i?^/(Z;a laUfolia, Wight, Ic. 1. 1904-2.— C.p. 2145. 

 Hab. Central Province, at an elevation of 2000 to 4000 feet. 



_2-3-pedale. Folia firma, subtus arcolata, costa venisfpie dilatatis. Flor.f^m. ad 

 apices ramorum raccmosi. 



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4. E. polypbyllum.— JSe/rf/a polyphjlla, Wight, Ic. t. 1904r4.— c.p. 

 432. 



Hab. Banks of stream at Leeta-gangoola, near Adam's Peak, at an 

 elevation of 5000 feet. 



3-4-pedale. Sepala omuia fmibrlala. Flor. fcem. discus subintcger vel obscure 

 6-lobus. 



38. AGYNEIA, Linn. 



1. A. bacciformis, A. Juss. (Wight, Tc. t. 1893), ~A. pJii/lIantlwides, 



