148 fetch": 



Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr., LVII., Mem. 19 (1910), p. 14, var. excl. 

 " S. colubrina et S. Beddomei, Brandis, Indian Trees, p. 474 

 partim, quoad spec, Zeylan. tantum. ^S'. laurina Thwaites, 

 , Enum., p. 201. o. Beddomei Trimen, Fl. Ceylon, Pt. III., 

 p. 173, var. excl. 



Ceylon. Trincomalee and Central Province, up to 600 m., 

 Thwaites C. P. 3720 (3720 A. in Herb. Kew) ; Thwaites 3540. 



" The corolla is about 4 mm. long, the lobes and tube 

 being equal in length. The lobes in the lower part and the 

 throat bear scattered woolly hairs. The ovary is hairy as 

 described by Thwaites. 



" S. micrantha is very closely allied to S. colubrina from 

 the western side of the Indian Peninsula, and its flowers 

 especially resemble those of the specimens from Travancore. 

 The usually narrowly -elliptic, lanceolate, acuminate leaves, 

 and the corolla with lobes equal in length to the tube serve as 

 a means of recognizing the Ceylon specimens. ^S^. micrantha 

 may be regarded as the Ceylon representative of S. colubrina, 

 and both no doubt must be reckoned among the plants long 

 known as ' lignum colubrinum.' 



"' It is very unfortunate that S. micrantha is not represented 

 by fruits in our herbaria. The fruiting specimens assigned to 

 it have been found to belong to S. lenticellata A. W^Hill. 

 On the sheets of Thwaites 3720 and 3540 at Kew portions 

 of fruiting specimens have been attached, which are identical 

 with Thwaites 1 866 excluded by me from 8. m-icrantha. These 

 and No. 1866 agree so closely with S. lenticellata from S. E. 

 India that they have been referred to that species. Specimens 

 in the Wallichian Herbarium mider the label ' Ceylon 96 and 

 Palamcottah 95 ' collected by Rottler in 1795 and 1796 have 

 also been referred to S. lenticellata.'" 



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" S. lenticellata A. W. Hill ; species ex affinitate S. colubrinae 

 Linn., et ;S'. micrdnthse Thw., sed ramis lenticelhs conspicue 

 instructis, foliis triplinerviis minoribus, segmentis calycis 

 angustioribus, antheris orbicularibus distincta. 



" Frutex scandens, ramis et ramulis stria tis lenticellis 

 insigniter instructis, cirrhis bijugis glabris. Folia obovata 

 vel elliptico-obovata, basi et versus apicem cuneata, acuta 



