266 NOTES ON THE FLORA OF OEYLON. 



Var. Grossekii Heuff. Banat. C. dioica-echinata, syn. G. 



utric. stipitatis. Gaudiniana Guthnick. 



141. C. PAuciFLORA Liglitf. 148. C. PARA.LLELA Somuierfelt. 



142. C. MicROGLOcHiN Wahlbg. -149. C. Davalliana Sm. 



143. C. PULicARis L. C. Davalliana-echinata, syn. 



144. C. MACROSTYLA Lapeyr. G. Pcqjonii Muret ined. 



145. C. sAGiTTiFERA Lowe, Iiis. 



Mader. Sect. 36. Capitate. 



Var. Guthnickiana Gay, Ins. 150. C. capitata L. 



Azor. minor. 151. G. scirpoidea Michx. 



145. C. gynogrates Wormskj. [(^mdi: G.GasparriniiVoxl.'} 



spec. bor. am. et Lappon. an G. oreophilcB C.-A. May, 



J. 47. C. DioicA L. caucasicse af&nis ?). 



NOTES ON THE FLORA OF CEYLON. 

 By Henry Trimen, M.B., F.L.S. 



{ Concluded from p. 245). 



Amomuni Benthamianum Trim. — Leaves lanceolate-linear, 

 rather abruptly acuminate, smooth above, minutely puberulent 

 beneath, sheaths and especially short rounded ligule rather densely 

 covered with fulvous hairs ; peduncle from the rootstock slender, 

 short ; spike capitate, very small, globose, dense ; bracts ovate, 

 acute, thin, nearly glabrous ; flowers too imperfect in the specimen 

 for examination ; capsule ovoid, f in. long, blunt, not ribbed, 

 copiously echinate, with irregular short curved spines. 



Hab. Reigam Korle, Sept. 1864 (0. P. 3864 in Hb. Perad.). 

 This C. P. number is referred to by Bentham in ' Gen. Plant.,' iii., 

 p. 645, under Amomimi as " species crista lata lobis 2 rotundatis 

 cum intermedio triangular! minore"; I regret that the only speci- 

 men in the Herbarium here does not allow me to examine the 

 flowers, but the characters of the fruit seem to show the plant to 

 be distinct. 



This species comes near to A.fiilviceps Thw., which has, how- 

 ever, much larger heads, densely golden-tomentose bracts, and the 

 anther-crest is semilunar and slightly bifid. 



Cyanotis arachnoidea Clarke, var. obtusa Trim. — Large ; 

 leaves of erect barren shoots numerous, densely placed, distichous, 

 curved, bract-shaped but not keeled beneath, obtuse, subapiculate, 

 glabrous or slightly floccose beneath and on the margins, bright 

 rather glaucous green above, more or less purple beneath ; flowering- 

 shoots coming ofl" from axils of former leaves on the rootstocks, 

 long-trailing, stout and succulent, compressed below, afterwards 

 cylindrical ; leaves oblong, like those of barren shoot but smaller, 

 all glabrous or nearly so, except at the nodes, which are slightly 

 cob webbed or silky-floccose ; spikes sessile or shortly stalked, in 

 clusters of 4 or 5 in axils of upper leaves ; bracts falcate, acute, 

 much imbricated, nearly glabrous outside, but with floccose hair 



