indigenous in Ceylon. Trimen, in his " Flora of Ceylon," 

 (ii. p. 116) says of it, "only known here in gardens, where 

 it is an old introduction ; there are specimens in Hermann's 

 Herb., and he gives (Mus. 8) the native name of 

 ' Mayilla' for them, which rightly belongs to B, racemosa^ 

 Lam." Roxburgh remarks that the pistil is often minute 

 and abortive. 



Descr. — A shrub or small tree, eight to ten feet high, with 

 a short trunk, spreading branches, and grey-brown bark. 

 Leaves bifarious, three to five inches long, elliptic, bifid 

 nearly to the middle, lobes acute or obtuse, seven- to eleven- 

 nerved, median nerve produced into a sharp point, glabrous 

 and shining above, more or less downy beneath ; petiole 

 three to four inches long, swollen at the top, stipules semi- 

 sagittate. Floivers solitary, or few in a short raceme, two 

 and a half inches broad, pure white, shortly pedicelled ; 

 bracts and bracteoles minute. Calyx an inch and a half 

 long, spathaceous, narrowed into a hairy beak, lacerate at 

 the tip. Petals oblong, tips rounded. Dish-glands five, 

 globose. Stame7is ten ; filaments alternately long and 

 short; anthers equal. Pistil geniculate, ovary linear, 

 hairy, narrowed into a slender stipes and beak. Pod 

 stipitate, four to five inches long, linear-oblong, flat, 

 smooth, glabrous, eight- to twelve-seeded, margins three- 

 keeled. Seeds turgidly ellipsoid, brown, shining. — 

 /. D. H. 



Fig. 1, calyi, disk, and pistil; 2, and 3, antters; 4, pod; 5, seed; all but 

 fig- 4, enlarged. 



