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base ; upper lip 4-fid, reflexed, the two middle lobes the largest ; 

 lower lip entire, strongly curved upwards, as long as the tube; 

 stamens inserted at mouth of corolla-tube ; filaments distinctly 

 connected at the base, glabrous ; anthers roundish, the cells not 

 confluent ; nuts not seen. — I gathered this in July, 1887, near the 

 summit of Eitigala, an isolated hill (2500 ft. high) in the N. Cent. 

 Province. The regular simple secund racemes, placed in pairs at 

 long intervals on the bare stems (for the leaves quickly fall), give 

 the plant a very characteristic facies ; the leaves are slightly scented, 

 and very bitter in taste. The plant has been introduced to Pera- 

 deniya Gardens. This is not very near any of our recorded species, 

 C. jittrvifiorus Benth. {Flectranthus tuberosus Bl.) being the nearest, 

 but at a great distance off. This latter is the " Innala" of Ceylon, 

 and is much cultivated for its edible tubers. 



Achyranthes aquatica Br. Sides of a tank at Madatugama, near 

 Kekirawa, N. Cent. Prov., July, 1887. A coarse semi-aquatic plant 

 found also in several parts of India, and in Tropical Africa. It is 

 very much larger than the other species of the genus. 



Loranthus mabseoides, n. sp. Much branched, twiggy, 

 the twigs nodulose lenticillate ; leaves numerous, alternate, small, 

 1-1 in. long, shortly stalked, ovate, rounded at the base, obtuse at 

 the apex, stiff ; veins, except midrib beneath, inconspicuous, 

 glabrous, scurfy-pubescent when very young; flowers very small, 

 sessile, in axillary clusters of two to four ; buds slightly club-shaped; 

 bract cup-shaped, entire, faintly ciliate, finely pubescent, covering 

 about half the calyx ; calyx-tube finely pubescent, limb cup-shaped, 

 entire, faintly 4-lobed; petals 4, equal, free, less than J in. long, 

 straight, obtuse ; anthers short-oblong, basifixed ; style as long as 

 petals ; stigma capitate ; fruit not seen. — Found in the Kalupahane 

 Valley, Lagalla, East Matale, Sept. 1887. This species, remarkable 

 for its small flowers and foliage, belongs to Korthals' section 

 Baratrantlms, and, of the Ceylon species, comes nearest to L. 

 iwdijiorus Thw. That, however, differs by its large leaves, 3 or 4 in. 

 long, and attenuate at the apex, and by its larger flowers, very 

 much more numerous in a cluster, and with the upper half of the 

 petals reflexed. From the same locality I have another undescribed 

 species of Loranthus, closely allied to L. sclerophyllus Thw., from 

 which it differs in having the leaves larger and less tapering at the 

 base, and much thicker, so as to become finely wrinkled all over 

 from shrinkage when dry. Unfortunately this is only in very young 

 fruit, and I am unable to describe it sufficiently to warrant a 

 specific name. 



Viscinn ramosissmnim Wall. I gathered this off large trees of 

 Rlwdudendron arhoreum in the Maturata Hills, in March, 1885. It 

 is also found in South India and, doubtfully, at Singapore. Wight's 

 figure (Ic. t. 1017) has more flowers at the nodes, and is referred 

 by Hooker to V. mujidatum Heyue, a very closely-allied species. My 

 locahty has been already pubhshed in Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 225. 



HalupJdla Beccarii Asch. For specimens of this little marine 

 phanerogam I am indebted to Mr. H. Nevill, C.C.S., who collected 

 it in a lagoon of brackish water, ten n?iles south of Batticaloa, in 



