68 VlolaceCB. \Ahodeia. 



Throughout tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia. 

 Moon (Cat. 41) gives as the Sinhalese name for this ' Yotu-wenna.' 

 Burman's figure above quoted was made from a specimen collected by 

 Hartog, and is referred to Polygala by him (Thes. 195). Burm. f. named 

 it P. Thea (Fl. Ind. 154) because a similar plant had been sent from Java 

 as Thea. Linn. (Mant. 260) gives the name P. theezans, and does not 

 quote Ceylon as a locality at all. The V. enneaspenna, L. is merely a 

 diffuse form with nearly entire leaves. 



2. X. ramosissimum, Thw. Eniini. PL Zeyl. 21 (1858). 

 Thw. Enum. 21. C. P. 1084. 

 Fl. B. Ind. I. 186. 



A small under-shrub, 6-Z in. high, with numerous slender, 

 ascending, woody branches ; 1, very numerous, crowded, im- 

 bricated, erect, sessile, very narrowly linear, acuminate, entire, 

 margins slightly recurved ; fl. and fruit as in /. siijfniticosiiin. 



Low country ; very rare. Maturata (Moon) ; Banks of the Mahaweli 

 at Haragama ; Medamaha-nuwara. Fl. July, August, and Feb.; pale 

 violet-pink. 



Endemic. 



3. AIiSODEZA, TImiars. 



Trees or shrubs ; fl. solitary or fascicled, with many bracts ; 

 sep. 5, equal ; pet. 5, equal ; stam. 5, equal, inserted within a 

 fleshy disk, fil. very short, anth. distinct or connate, with a 

 long, tongue-like appendage ; ov. i -celled, with 3 parietal 

 placentas, ovules i or 2 to each placenta, stigma 3-lobed ; 

 capsule 3-valved, seeds 3. — Sp. about 40; 11 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Anthers distinct, disk annular 



Leaves acute, stipules persistent . . . . i. A. zeylanica. 



Leaves obtuse, stipules caducous . . . . 2. A. decora. 



Anthers connate, disk of 5 separate scales . . . 3. A. virgata. 



I. A. zeylanica, Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 21 (185S). 



Pe7ttaloba zeylanica, Arn. in Mag. Zool. Bot. ii. 543. C. P. 2669. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 187. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 229. 



An erect shrub, 10-12 ft., young shoots pubescent; 1. 

 3-5 in., lanceolate or oval, acuminate, acute, shallowly serrate, 

 glabrous, venation reticulate, conspicuous, stip. free, f in., 

 lanceolate, very acute, adpressed to stem. ; fl. small, solitary 

 or fascicled, axillary, nearly sessile, surrounded by many 

 small, acute, rufous bracts ; sep. lanceolate, acute, striate ; 

 pet. twice as long as sep., erect, oblong-linear, acute, recurved 

 at apex; disk 5-lobed; ov. i-cellcd with 3 ovules; fruit i in., 

 globose, apiculate, smooth ; seeds smooth. 



Moist low country ; rather rare. Hantane (Macrae) ; Ratnapura. 

 First collected by Wight in 1836. Fl. March ; white. 



