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localities of Java, Burmali, Timor, China, and St. Helena are given 

 for this by Choisy. 



Suteda maritima Dumat. (C/wna/iodina Moq.), var. — An erect 

 variety with slender ascending branches and very short leafy bracts 

 by the sides of the " lewayas " (salt-pans) at Kirinda, on the east 

 coast, and also at the peninsula of Kalpitiya (Oalpentyn), and 

 adjacent islands on the west coast ; in both cases along with 

 S. indica and S. rudijlora. Mr. Hemsley agrees with me in this 

 name. It cannot be the Chenopodina iiidicn of Wight, 'Icones,' 

 t. 1793, which has longer leaves and a more branched habit. 



MoJilana ncmoralis Mart. — This small and slender mider-shrub 

 has on two occasions been met with apparently quite wild ; at 

 Gonamadde, in Lagulla, an isolated coffee district in the north of 

 the Central Province, and at Uma-oya, an unfrequented low-country 

 district with no cultivation. I have no idea how this Tropical 

 American and African plant obtained so good a footing in Ceylon. 

 Can it be native ? 



Fodosteiiion algmforme Bedd. (sub Dicnea), — Abundant in the 

 Maha-weli Kiver in several places near Kandy, growing with the 

 other species on the rocks, and flowering when the water is low in 

 the dry weather ; first collected February, 1881. Our plant is 

 beautifully and exhaustively illustrated by Warming — from speci- 

 mens sent by me to him — in the ' Vidensk. Belsk. Skr.' G, ii. t. 12 

 (1882). Beddome's species is figured in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. 

 t. 24, and is sufficiently near the Ceylon plant ; Mr. Hemsley, 

 however, doubts complete identity, and thinks our form intermediate 

 between P. algteforme and P. WalUchu Br. 



Ficus Trimeni King MS., n. sp. 



F. caudicniata Trim,, n. sp. 



Curcuma olp/antha Trim., n. sp. 



Cyanotis arachnoidea Clarke, var. obtusa Trim. 



C tuherosa R. & S., var. ascendens Dalz. (sp.) (C. sarmentosa 

 Wight). — In sandy damp ground near Kirinda, on south-east coast. 

 Readily known from its near allies by its long fusiform fasciculate 

 roots. A plant of Western India, figured in Wight, ' Icones,' 

 t. 2087. 



PJucnix pnsilla Gaertn. [P. farinifera Eoxb.). — In the dry forests 

 about Anuradhapura occurs a dwarf Phcenix which presents some 

 points of difference from the common species of South Ceylon, 

 P. zeylanica Trim. {= P. sylvestris Thw., non Roxb.). It forms no 

 stem, the leaf-segments are longer and narrower and less markedly 

 4-ranked, and the lower spinescent ones longer, slender, and very 

 sharp-pointed, the green is brighter and paler, and the radius 

 rather glaucous. In the female flower the calyx is strongly 

 3-ribbed, the ribs running out to the end of the strongly-marked 

 teeth. The fruit — which is ripe in April and eaten by the natives 

 — is barely half an inch long, smaller than in P. zeylanica, but 

 somewhat broader in proportion to its length, blunt, apiculate, 

 and, when fully ripe, dully-shinnig purple-black, having passed 

 through bright crimson-scarlet. The figure of /'. pnsilla m Gacrtn, 

 ' Fruct.' t. 9, appears to well represent the fruit of our plant ; the 



