HOOKERS 
JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
AND 
KEW GARDEN MISCELLANY. 
On two new Plants, EPICARPURUS ZEYLANICA and Doona ZEYLA- 
NICA, found in Ceylon; by G: H. W. Tuwatrss, Ese., Director of 
the Botanic Garden of Peradenia. 
(Tas. XI. and XII. of Vol. Hm 
* EPrcARPURUS ZEYLANICA, Thw. (Tas. XL). 
Frutex ramosus, folis subrh« -rbeo-lanceolatis aeuminatis glabris ré- 
mote spinuloso-serratis, floribus masculis dense capitatis, capitulis 
oblongis, foemineis racemosis, pedicellis apice incrassatis fructiferis 
valde elongatis. 
A shrub or small tree, eight or ten feet high, epetingly spinose, much 
branched; the extremities of the-young branches with a few short 
seattered hairs. Bark dark brown, somewhat rugose. Leaves smooth, 
flaccid, lanceolate or rhomboido-lanceolate, serrated, one and a half 
two inches aud three-quarters long, by three-quarters to one inch 
tapering towards the slightly hairy very short petiole, with glani 
puncta very minute and numerous. MALE INFLORESCENCE pale 
yellow; anthers nearly round, with a green spot om the back; bracts 
small, inconspicuous. Sepals membranous, obtuse. FEMALE INFLO- 
RESCENCE : flowers green, on rather long pedicels ; ee 
Stigmas with brown villi on their inner face. — 
The male of the species just described bears a PE 
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