NOTES ON THE FLORA OF CEYLON, 141 



In addition to tbe plants in the above list, a considerable 

 number of species has been recorded from Ceylon in various 

 systematic treatises (and especially in the ' Flora of British India,* 

 now in course of publication), which were not included in the 

 ' Enumeratio.' Of these most were collected by Col. and Mrs. 

 Walker, in the years 1830-1840, entirely in the south-western and 

 southern parts of the Island, and have not been met with by 

 subsequent collectors. Some of their gatherings were garden 

 plants however. The collector was MacEae, who had charge 

 of Peradeniya Gardens from 1827 to 1830 ; many of the plants 

 sent home by him as natives of Ceylon were evidently gathered in 

 the gardens, and are nowhere wild in the colony ; whilst others 

 are from N. W. India, where he also collected for the Horticultural 

 Society. Some of Gardner's plants, collected by him in company 

 with Wight in the Nilgiris in 1845, have also been erroneously 

 given for Ceylon ; and altogether there is a rather large number of 

 names to be deleted in the list of recorded Ceylouese plants. A 

 corrected and revised catalogue of the whole flora is now being 

 printed at Colombo for the Asiatic Society's (Ceylon Branch) 

 ' Proceedings,' in which I have taken care to distinguish all 

 doubtful natives and erroneous records. 



During the five years I have been in Ceylon, a good many 

 species (chiefly Indian) have been detected, especially in the less- 

 known portions of the Island, which have not, so far as I know, 

 been previously recorded. The greater part of these have been 

 met with in my own excursions through the country, but many 

 have been detected by my friend Mr. W. Ferguson, F.L.S., 

 of Colombo, an excellent field botanist, who during the long 

 residence of 45 years in the Colony has lost no opportunity 

 of acquiring and adding to his extensive acquaintance with its 

 vegetation. Mr. H. Nevill, of the Ceylon Civil Service, has also 

 availed himself of his residence and travels in unfrequented 

 districts to collect rare plants, and has thus added several species 

 to our flora. 



The following is a list with notes of these additions. The few 

 new or undescribed species it contains, as well as those mentioned 

 by name in the above list, and a few others, will be described at 

 the end of this paper. 



Additions to the Floea of Ceylon. 



Tinospora malaharica Miers [Menispermum Lam.). — I can 

 scarcely consider this and T. tomentosa Miers [Menispenmim Koxb.), 

 to form distinct species, but regard them rather as varieties of one. 

 Both are fairly common in the low country of S.W. Ceylon, and 

 are not distinguished by the natives, who call them both " Pou- 

 kinda," or " Wal-kinda." C. P. 2804 includes examples of both 

 forms. In the ' Fl. Brit. Ind.' i., p. 9G, neither are given for 

 Ceylon, but in the ' Flora Indica ' of 1855, p. 182, Hooker 

 mentions a Ceylon example as probably referable to T. vudaharica. 



T. crisjju Miers [Meniupcniuun L.). — It is probable that this 



