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WILLIS : THE FLORA OK KITH. ALA : 



Coleus barbatus 

 Anisochilus velutinus 

 Leueas biflora 

 Piper sylvestre 

 Alseodaphne semecarpi- 



folia 

 Viscum orientale 

 Cleistanthus pallidus 

 Phyllanthus polyphyllus 

 Croton caudatus 



Acalypha lanceolata 

 Mallotus philippinensis 

 Phylloehlamys spinosa 

 Dorstenia indica 

 Cyanotis fasciculata 

 Caryota urens 

 Oplismenus compositus 

 Andropogon squarrosus 

 Dichsetaria Wightii 



Among these there is one form (Thunbergia) endemic to the 

 summit of Ritigala, and we may notice here that it belongs to 

 a genus whose seeds are, so far as we can tell, extremely ill 

 adapted to transport over long distances, so that it was pro- 

 bably only with difficulty, so to speak, that it reached the 

 summit at all. 



The exclusion of these 41 species leaves us with a Hora of 

 103 species, all, so far as we are aware, only found elsewhere 

 in the moist region of Ceylon, i.e., at least 40 miles away, and 

 with the few exceptions to be pointed out below, all species 

 which must have travelled in one journey over the whole of 

 that distance, they being species, not of the low country, but 

 of the lower slopes of the mountains. 



We may next exclude the species which, by reason of their 

 fleshy fruits, have obviously been carried by birds. These 

 are — 



Polyalthia Korinti 

 Cycled Bur nut n in ', \;ii 

 ( !apparis Moouii 

 Pittosporum zeylanicum 

 Erythroxylon obtusifolium 

 W'al ui.i ( laidncri 

 Ola.\ /( \ lanici 



Salaoia reticulata 

 Eugenia rotundata 

 khipsalis ( 'assylha 

 Heptapleurum Btellatum 

 Canthium didymum 

 Ixora coecinea 

 Morinda umbclUita 



