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showy plant. The whole covering of the plant consists of stellate 

 hairs. 



1 am nnable to fit this into any of tlie descriptions in the Indian 

 books. I have met with it nowhere else in Ceylon than the above 

 spot. From T. rhomhoidea Jacq. it differs in the character of the 

 hair, in its rotmidate leaves glabrous above, quite naked inflorescence, 

 and larger flowers nearly \ in. wide. The flower-buds are elongated 

 and cylindrical, hoary, dilated at the apex, where they are covered 

 by a star formed of the 5 spreading sepal-appendages. T. rhomhoidea 

 is of course an abundant weed in Ceylon, and varies somewhat in 

 amount, but not in character, of pubescence, which is never stellate. 



Eugenia (Eu-eugenia) phillyreoides Trim. — Shrubby, much 

 branched ; leaves numerous, crowded, small, stiff and rigid, linear- 

 lanceolate, tapering at both ends, especially into the short petiole, 

 subobtuse ; midrib prominent ; lateral veins obscure; margin revo- 

 lute, glabrous (the youngest only with scanty appressed silky white 

 hairs), dark green, paler beneath ; flowers (not seen) always axillary, 

 solitary, stalked; fruit the size of a sloe, depresso-globose, with a 

 flat top, crowned by the short conical style, wide disk, and 4 enlarged 

 persistent spreading rather unequal calyx- segments, 2 obtuse and 

 2 acute; seeds 2 or 3, plano-convex. 



Hab. Summit of Kalupahane Kande, Lagalla, East Matale, 

 May, 1884. A small dense twiggy bush with numerous erect 

 branchlets. Leaves rarely exceeding 1 in. with the petioles. Fruit 

 red, pubescent when young, afterwards smooth, on peduncles 

 i-f in. long. 



This does not nearly approach any other Ceylon species ; from 

 the descriptions given, E. Jossinia Duth. [Jossinia indica Wight), of 

 South India, must, however, be nearly allied, though quite distinct. 



Eugenia (Eu-eugenia) Haeckeliana Trim. — Branches cylin- 

 drical, the young shoots floccose-woolly, with fulvous tomentum ; 

 leaves broadly oblong-ovate, more or less cordate at base, subacute, 

 thick, the margin somewhat undulated ; midrib thick and prominent 

 beneath, the lateral veins (about 12 on either side) conspicuous and 

 united by strong arches at some distance £fom the margin, glabrous 

 and bright green when mature, densely covered when young with 

 close yellow tomentum ; petiole stout, very short ; flowers large, 

 solitary, on short stout peduncles coming from the axils of opposite 

 leafy bracts on the young shoots below or alternating with the 

 ordinary leaves ; bracts a little longer than the peduncles ; calyx- 

 tube with two smaller bracts immediately below it, all fulvous- 

 woolly ; calyx-lobes 4, broad, acute, slightly recurved in flowering, 

 afterwards erect ; petals rather longer than the calyx-lobes ; disk 

 broad, square, densely woolly ; fruit (not ripe) spherical, crowned 

 by the calyx-lobes. 



Hab. Among rocks by the sea-shore at Weligana, South 

 Province, Dec, 1882. A small tree with reddish bark. Leaves 

 4-6 in. long, with a tendency to be stiffly bent conduplicatcly on 

 the arched midrib. Flowers 1^ in. wide; petals white, with a 

 pink tinge. 



This is readily distinguished by the flowers from Pl./idva Thw., 



