Dioscoreacece.} ceylon PtiNTS. 



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CLIU. BURMANNIACE.?:. 



(Includ. Taccaceas ; auct. J. D. Hooker.) 



1. BURMANIflA, Linn. 



1. B. distachya, E. Br. Prod. p. 52.—^. dlsticha, Linu. ; Boxb. Fl. 



Intl. ii. p. 117, cum syn.— c.p. 2313. „ , . , , ^, i « tit- 



IIab. Common in the hotter parts of the island. JN cm. vuJg. Ma- 



deja-jawala." 



2. B. Championii, Th\r.; caule fillformi, simplici, aphyllo, squamoso; 

 flonlus subcapitatis ; pcrigonii tubo 3-costato, nee alato.— J?, pseudo- 



alata, Champ. MSS.— c.p. 2735. 



IIab. Saffragani District and Hinidoon Corle. 



Tota planta albida, 4-8-pollicavis. SquamcP canlis sparsaj, laBceolat se, 2 lin. lonp. 

 Flores 9-12, circiter 3 liu. longi. Perigonii lohi majorcs lanceolati, marginibus ^ 

 involutis, minores liaearcs, truiicati. 



3, B. v^s,x\\eL.—Gonyanaespusilla, Miers, in Linn. Soc. Trans, xviil. 



.. >^ ^^ *^ ^^-.^ -XT r\ _,,«^ ^Irt-l-i/^^ alia -hnhi npri- 



p. 537, t. 38, f. 3.— c.p. 



alia tubi peri- 



ffonii ancrustioribus. — c.p. 2312. , t> an 



Hab. Var. o ; North of the island, Gardner. Trmcomale, Bev. li. O. 



Glenie. Var. ^ ; Caltura, Gardner ; Kokool Corle. 



There does not appear to me suflScient difference in the seed-vessels of the preced- 

 ing three species to raalce it desirable to constitute two genera of them 1 observe 

 in niy specimens of B. clistachya, a disposition in the capsules to split transversely 

 about their middle, just as takes place iu the preseat species. 



2. THISMIA, Griff. 



Trilrachjs, Champion. 



1. T. Gardneriana, Hk. f. MSS.; caule unifloro, perianthii lobis 

 latioribua rotundatis.— TWSrac^s Gardneriana, Champ. M&b. etlc. m 



Herb. Hook. 



Hab. Galle, Cliamjpion (Kerh. JTool.). . ^ .« 



I Lave never met with this species. " Very nearly allied to T. ^'"""T"' ^he 



Linn. Trans, xix. 341. t. 39. but differs in the solitary llower and broader lobes of the 



perianth." — /. J). IT. 



3. TACCA, £"orst. 



1. T. pinnatifida, Forst. (Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. p. 172; Miqnel, Fl. Ind. 



Bat. iii. p. 566, cum syn.)— c.p. 2320. «;^„,> 



Hab. ?^orth of the island, Gardner. Trmcomale, Bev. S. O. Glome. 



CLIV. DIOSCOEEACEJi!. 



1. DIOSCOREA, Linn. 



I. D. pentaphylla, Linn. (Kth. Enum. v. p. 396, cumByn. ; Wight. 



Ic. t. 8U.)~D tri^hyUa, Linn.; Kth. 1. c. p. 392, cum sjn.-c.P. 

 286D. 



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