270 NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF CEYLON PLANTS, 



tibus. Ovarium biloculare, loculis uniovulatis ; ov?da ex angulo 

 centrali pendula, anatropa, raphe extrorsa. Stylus filiforiBis, cuiva- 

 tus, corolla fere duplo longior, in disco magno annular! ovarium co- 

 ronante insertus. Stigma subquadratura, obliquum, apice longitudi- 

 naliter fissum. Frudus ignotus. — Arbor mediocris, Zeylanica; I'a- 

 mulis teretihis^ ad nodos collari interj^etiolari gummifluo cinctis ; foliis 

 oppositisy lanceolatis^ acuminatiSy i7itegris, penniveniisj nitidis^ reticu- 

 latisy petiolatis ; petiolo superne convexo ; floribus terminalihuSy sem- 

 libuSy aggregatis. 

 1. Dichilanthe Zeylanica, Thw. (Tab. YIIL ^.)*— ^P- No. 3422 in 



Herbario Peradeniensi. 

 Arhor 30-40-pedalis ; foliis viridibus vel sseplssime viridi-rufescentibus, 

 3-7 poll, longis, li-2i poll, latis ; petiolo i poll longo ; fioribus 

 li poll, longis, flavido-purpureisj sericeis. 



This very ornamental forest-tree, which seems to differ considerably 

 from any described genus of the LonicerecBy and which is the only indi- 

 genous species of the CaprifoliacecB yet found in Ceylon, with the ex- 

 ception of two species of Vihurnumy which occur in the more elevated 

 parts of the Central Province, grows in small quantity, at an elevation 

 of about 1000 feet, upon some of the forest-covered hills in the district 

 between Galle and Katnapoora, where I found it in May last, at which 

 time it was in flower. 



Plate VIIL^. Pig. 1. Flowering branch oi DicUlantU Zeylanica, 

 Thw. 2, A flower. 3. Corolla laid open. 4. Stamen. 5. Longitudinal 

 section of calyx and ovary, showing some of the glandular squamulse 

 at the mouth of the calyx. 6. Transverse section of ovary. 7. Ovule. 

 8. Stigma : — all more or less magnijiedy with the exception of Jig. 1. 



Nov. Gen. V, Palenga, Thw. Nat. Ord. EuPHOKBiACEiE. 



Tribus Buxe^, 



Gen, Char. Mores dioici. — Pl. Mas. Calyx sepalis 2, concavis, oppo- 



sitis. Corolla 0. 



Jilamentis 



Ovar 



erectis; antJteris oblongis, extrorsis, longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. 



um 0.— Pl. Poem. Calyx sepalis 4 (2 externis) vel abortu 3. 

 Corolla 0. Stamina 0. Ovarium obloi _ . 

 ovulatis; ovida collateralia, sub placentse processu magno afflsa, ana- 

 tropa. Stylus nullus. Stigmata 2, discoidea. Frtictm oblongus 



monospcnno 



Semen oh- 



