2 RanunCulaceCB. \Naravelia. 



Lower montane zone, rare. Hantane ; Alagalla ; Ambagamuwa. 

 Fl. Jan. ; brownish-yellow outside, dark purple within, stam. white. 



Widely distributed in India and Malay Archip. to the Philippines. 



A handsome climber, worth cultivation, the leaf-veins and inflorescence 

 are purple. 



2. C. Gouriana,* Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 670 (1832). 



Thw. Ehum. i. C. P. 680. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 4- Wight, Ic. tt. 933, 934. 



A woody climber; branches wide-spreading, pubescent 

 when young ; 1. pinnate or bipinnate, petiole and rachis 

 elongated, Iflts. stalked, unequal, ovate- or lanceolate-oblong, 

 caudate-acuminate, usually deeply but sparingly serrate, gla- 

 brous above, pubescent beneath; fl. f in. diam.; sep. pubes- 

 cent ; achenes hairy. 



Montane zone, 3-6000 ft., rather rare. Ramboda ; Dimbula ; Nuwara 

 Eliya. Fl. Dec.-Feb. ; greenish-white. 



Also mountains of Trop. India, Malay Pen., Java, Philippines. 

 Very like C. Vitalba, L., the well-known ' Traveller's Joy' of England. 



2. NARAVi:i.IA,i- DC. 



Woody climbers ; 1. opp., without stip. ; infl. axillary, 

 compound ; sep. 4, valvate ; pet. about 12 ; fr. as in Clematis. 

 — Sp. 2, both in Fl. B. Ind. 



N. zeylanica, DC. Syst. i. 167 (1818) ; Xara-wel, S. 



Herm. Mus. 35. Burm. Thes. 36. Fl. Zeyl. n. 226. Atragene zey- 

 lanica., L. Sp. PI. 542. Moon Cat. 43. Thw. Enum. i. C. P. 1009. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 7. Roxb. Cor. PI. ii. t. 18S. 



A climbing shrub, branches pubescent ; 1. long-stalked, 

 3-foliolate, the central Iflt. usually transformed into a tendril 

 which is trifid at the end, Iflts. broadly oval, acute, often 

 unequal at base, entire or with a few deep gashes, glabrous 

 above, more or less densely silky-pubescent beneath, 5-nerved; 

 sep. ovate-lanceolate, subacute, pubescent, soon falling ; pet. 

 J-f in., rather longer than sep., linear-spathulatc, spreading ; 

 achenes shortly stalked, acuminate, slightly hairy. 



Moist low region, rather rare. Galle ; Colombo ; Kalutara ; Kandy ; 

 Lunugala, Uva. Fl. Sept.-Dec. ; green. 



Also in Trop. India and Malaya. 



The tendril is deflexed at right angles with the petiole, and terminates 

 in 3 equal, recurved, rigid, sharp-pointed, hooked branches. 



* Named from the 'ancient city of Gour' in Bengal, near which it is 

 abundant. 



t From the Sinhalese name. 



