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obtuse, finely ciliate, reflexed in flower ; petals large, white, 

 spreading or reflexed; fruit not seen. — On the summit of the 

 Rangala Kange, at about 5000 ft., September, 1888. The nearest 

 Ceylon ally to this is E. Mooniana Wight, a very variable and 

 common species. From this the present species differs in its very 

 much larger flowers on long stiff peduncles, its larger and broader 

 leaves, and different habit. This group of Eugenia is well represented 

 on the hill-tops of the north-eastern block of our mountain system, 

 but they are difficult to discriminate. Besides E. iMllyrcBoides, 

 described in my last paper, I have a very distinct species in young 

 fruit from Kalupahane Valley, Lagalla, which is allied to E. 

 Jossinia Duth. (Jossinia indica Wight), but as it is in young fruit 

 only, I hesitate to give it a name. The plant called by me var. 

 rotundata of E. amoena Thw. (Cat. Ceyl. PL p. 33) is probably also 

 a good species, and is common in the same localities ; it is the E, 

 Mooniana var. /5 of Thw. Enum. p. 114. Besides these, I have yet 

 another species of the same group from Eangala, but must wait for 

 more material before publishing it. 



Sonneratia apetala Ham. Numerous trees of this were noticed in 

 Aug. 1885, in the tidal water at Koddiar, TrincomaHe, where one 

 of the branches of the Mahaweli Eiver enters the harbour. They 

 grow here with other " Mangroves," but form tall, slender trees, 

 with the habit of some of the Australian phyllodineous Acacias, and 

 possess erect root-processes similar to those of S. acida. They were 

 covered with the small depressed-globular apiculate fruit. This 

 species occurs abundantly in the Soonderbun, below Calcutta, and 

 at Moulmein, but does not seem at all a general constituent of the 

 Mangrove swamps of the East. 



Gardenia turgida Koxb. Rocky ground at Nilgala, Prov. of Uva, 

 Jan. 1888, in nearly ripe fruit. The people called it " Pita-madu," 

 and said the flowers were white. The fruits are nearly spherical, 

 l|-lf in. in diameter, not beaked, smooth, but covered with small 

 warty excrescences ; the exocarp is very thick, the endocarp woody, 

 and there are five placentas. This is quite distinct from the two 

 other Ceylon species, which are closely allied to one another, and 

 have each three placentas in the fruit. As there seems some con- 

 fusion as to their names, both being placed as " doubtful species " 

 at the end of the genus in Fl. Brit. Ind., a few words on their 

 characters may be here given. The commoner one, called "Galis" 

 by the Singhalese, is found in the moist region, and forms a small 

 spreading tree, with showy flowers, white when first expanded, but 

 passing during the day through lemon-yellow to orange. This is 

 C. P. 3617, and is given as G. latifolia Ait. by Thwaites. The 

 calyx is very variable ; usually the limb is strongly winged, and has 

 long acute folded recurved teeth; but sometimes the mouth is 

 truncate, or nearly so, and the wings are absent ; the corolla-tube 

 is 2-3 in. long, and the limb 8-9-lobed ; the fruit is smooth, not 

 costate, and with three (very rarely four) placentas. Roxburgh's 

 plate (Cor. PL t. 134) may be this, but it shows no calyx-tube on 

 the fruit, nor is the placentation given. Our other species is a bush, 

 growing on arid rocks in our dry districts, and is C. P. 3618. It is 



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