RECENT REVISIONS OF CEYLON BOTANY. 149 



vel subacuta, mucronulata, aliquando retusa, 5-7 cm. longa, 



2 cm, lata, glabra, supeme vernicosa, triplinervia, venis 

 nervisque prominentibus ; petioli 5 mm, longi, o basi 

 tumido orti. Inflorescentix axillares, multiflorse, circiter 



3 cm. longee ; pedmiciilis et pedicellis pubescentibus. Calyx 

 1* 25-1 '5 mm. longus, segmentis anguste ovatis vel ellipticis 

 subaciitis subglabris vel pubescentibus marginibus hirsutis. 

 Corolla 3*5-4 mm. longa, lobis repandis 2-2-5 mm. longis 

 ovato-lanceolatis subacutis parti inferiore pilis laneis sparsis 

 instructis tubo glabro. Antherse orbiculares, 0*65 mm. 

 diametro, filamentis 1-1 ' 25 mm. longis. Ovarium cum stylo 

 3 mm. longum, hirsutum, ovario apice prsecipue pilis erectis 

 instructo. Fructus globosus, circiter 2 cm. diametro, 1-2- 

 spermus ; pericarpium crustaceum. Semen orbiculare, 1 • 4 

 cm. diametro, planum, circiter 2 mm, crassum, glabrum, S. 

 potatorum Thwaites, Enum., p 201 quoad C. P, 1866. 8. 

 micrantha Thwaites, Enum., p. 425 et Trimen, Floiu Ceylon, 

 Pt. III., p. 172 quoad C, P. 1866. 



" Vem. Name : Cheroomolaghoo, according to a label on 

 a specimen, dated 1828, in Herb. Wight preserved in the 

 University Herbarium, Glasgow. 



"S, India. Madras: Cuddapah Hill (7/81), Beddome 6, 

 5305 in Herb. Mus. Brit. ; Madras, without precise locality, 

 Wight & Heyn {Wallich 1589 b. in Herb. Heyn) ; Negapatam, 

 Herb. Wight ; Kumool Hills, Beddome (1878) ; Palamcottah 

 (1795), Bottler 30 Wallich 1585 b. (Herb. Klein ?) in Herb. 

 Wall. ; Chingleput Dist. ; Kambakkam Droog, Bourne 2533 ; 

 Kambakkam Hills (May, 1913, fruit), Barber 8862 in 

 Coimbatore Coll. Herb. ; Kouri Kandjera, LeschenauU in 

 Herb. Mus. Paris. 



" Ceylon. Bottler 1796 ; Wallich 1585 b, in Herb, Wall. ; 

 without precise locality, Thwaites 1866 ; also fruiting speci- 

 mens attached to sheets of Thwaites 3720, 3540 in Herb. 

 Kew ; fruits (labelled " near axillaris ") Colombo, Ferguson 

 in Mus. Kew. 



" A very distinct species with its stems closely covered by 

 conspicuous lenticels. The triplinerved leaves are relatively 

 small and uniform in size, tapering regularly towards base 

 and apex. In the tiowers the orbicular anthers afford a 



