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hrevipetiolaris. This shows that it does not belong to Shorea, and it 

 may be described as follows : — Fruit f to nearly i in. long, acute 

 and strongly apiculate, surrounded at the base by a shallow some- 

 what spreading cup formed by the hard broad obtuse much imbri- 

 cated enlarged sepals, about ^ in. long, 3 broader than the other 

 two ; pericarp thinly chartaceous, brittle, smooth, brownish ; seed 

 green, the cotyledons very unequal, the larger unequally 3-lobed. 

 I place it, with some little doubt, in Beddome's genus BalanocarpiiSj 

 founded (' Forester's Manual,' p. 236) on two species from the 

 Tinnevelly Hills, in S. India, both of which are figured in his Fl. 

 Sylvat. tt. 329, 330. Our species is quite distinct from these, and 

 as the sepals are not found to form "a hard woody 5-lobed cup," 

 as described, it may be doubted if it should find a place in the 

 genus. The calyx, indeed, agrees better with that of Isoptera 

 Scheff. (see Burck, Ann. Jard. Buit. vi. 222, and t. 25), but that 

 has 30-36 stamens, and other characters which will not agree with 

 the Ceylon plant. 



Limonia crenidata Roxb. (L. acidissima Auct. plur. non L.). 

 I found small trees of this in many places about Bibile, Ekirian- 

 kumbura, &c., in the Province of Uva, in Jan. 1888, with unripe 

 fruit. I have already pointed out (Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 142) 

 that Linnaeus' name L. acidissima cannot be maintained for this, as 

 Hermann's specimens, on which it was mainly based (Fl. Zeyl. 

 n. 175), are Feronia Elephantiini, though no doubt Linnaeus after- 

 wards confused the two plants (which have much similarity in their 

 leaves) by quoting also Eheede, Hort. Malab. iv. t. 14, which 

 represents the Limonia. L. cremdata is probably confined in Ceylon 

 to the peculiar and little-known country where I collected it ; in 

 the drier parts of Peninsular India it has a wide range, but does 

 not appear to be anywhere very common. 



Suriana maritima L. This almost universally distributed sea- 

 shore tropical shrub had never been observed in Ceylon (though 

 recorded from the Nicobar and Laccadive Islands, and perhaps also 

 the Maldives) until the late W. Ferguson, in December, 1885, 

 found it at Foul Point, Trincomalie, whence he sent me specimens. 

 It is easily overlooked as Fern phis, save when in blossom, when its 

 bright yellow flowers are conspicuous enough. The five barren 

 stamens are often quite absent. 



Crotalaria tecta Heyne (in Roth). A weed in dry paddy-fields 

 about Mineri, N. Central Prov., Sept. 1885. A coarse semi-shrubby 

 plant found also in several parts of Southern India. Seems little 

 more than a suffruticose form of C. linifolia. 



Eugenia (Eu-eugenl\) pedunculata, n. sp. A shrub, perfectly 

 glabrous throughout, with numerous straight, twiggy branches. 

 Leaves coriaceous, stiff, l^-2i in. long, broadly oval, tapering 

 into short petioles at base, very bluntly acuminate, pale beneath, 

 pinkish when young; flowers f in. or more in diameter, on 

 long straight peduncles varying from f to 2i in., usually solitary, 

 but sometimes in (apparent) clusters of three "to five, from the lower 

 nodes of the new shoots below the young leaves; calyx-tube with 

 one or two small acute bracts beneath, pyriform ; lobes 4, ovate. 



