Coniothalamus^ AnOUaceCB. 3 1 



Moist low country ; very rare. Only known from the Singhe Rajah 

 Forest. Fl. Sept.; red. 



Endemic. 



The specimens in Herb. Perad. consist merely of leaves, but Thwaites 

 has described the flowers, and Hooker (in his Fl. Ind.) the fruit. 



The roots are fragrant when bruised and contain camphor, they are 

 chewed by the Singhalese ; the leaves are also aromatic. 



5. G-. Thomsoni, Thw. Enmn. 7 (1858). 

 Thw. Enum. 7. C.P. 3398. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 74. Bedd. Ic. t. 59. 



A small erect shrub, 1^-3 ft. ; 1. 5-7 or more in., obovate- 

 oval or obovate-lanceolate, abruptly long-acuminate, narrowed 

 at base, rather thin, glabrous, petiole h in., stout ; fl. solitary 

 or 2, from the old wood, ped. f in,, bent downwards at top ; 

 sep. lanceolate, acute, persistent ; outer pet. l| in., much 

 tapering to apex, rounded at base, cone of inner pet. | in., 

 ovoid, acute ; styles divided into 2 long filiform branches ; fr.- 

 carp. several, ^ in., ovoid, apiculate, shortly stalked. 



Moist low country below 1000 ft.; very rare. Hiniduma Kande 

 (Haycock Hill). Fl. May ; yellow. 

 Endemic. 



6. G-. reticulatus, Thw. Efiicni. 7 (1858). 

 Thw. Enum. 7. C. P. 3397. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 75. Bedd. Ic. t. 64. 



An erect shrub, 6-8 ft., young shoots blackish, strigose ; 

 1. 5-8 in., lanceolate-oblong, tapering to bluntly acuminate 

 apex, sulDrotund at base, thin, very minutely and densely 

 punctate, glabrous above, strongly reticulate and with small 

 scattered black setae beneath, petioles \ in., thickened, 

 narrowly winged, tubercular and strigose ; fl. solitary, from 

 a little above the axils, ped. \ in., strigose ; sep. ovate, acu- 

 minate, hairy, not persistent ; outer pet. f in., lanceolate, 

 attenuate, hairy, cone \ in., acute ; styles clavate, stigma 

 dilated bilobed, ov. densely strigose ; fr.-carp. numerous, | in., 

 shortly stalked, globose or ovoid, often 2-seeded. 



Moist low country ; very rare. Karanita Kande ; Nillowe. Fl, Sep- 

 tember ; ' red or yellow-brown ; ' fruit red. 

 Endemic. 



7. G. salicinus, Hk.f. and Th. FL Ind. 106 (1855). 

 Thw. Enum. 7. C. P. 373. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 76. Bedd. Ic. t. 65. 



A shrub, 10-12 ft., young shoots black-strigose ; 1. 4-5 in., 

 lanceolate-oblong, tapering to acute apex, narrowed below, 

 stiff, glabrous above, minutely gland -dotted, prominently 

 veined beneath and set with scattered, short, stiff, black hairs ; 

 fl. axillary, solitary, ped. very short, curved ; sep. ovate, \ in., 



