Bixacecs. 69 



Also in Malabar and Cochin. 



The Fl. B. Ind. describes the leaf-axils as bearded beneath ; this is 

 never the case in Ceylon specimens. 



2. A. decora. Trim, m Journ. Bot. xxiii. 203 (1885). 

 C. P. 4006. 



A small tree, young twigs finely pilose ; 1. oblong-lanceolate 

 often slightly trapezoid, somewhat acuminate, acute at base, 

 obtuse or emarginate at apex, shallowly crenate-serrate in the 

 upper half, reticulate venation prominent, petioles \ in., stip. 

 subulate, very early caducous ; fl. small, \-^ in., shortly pedi- 

 celled, in very short, contracted, axillary racemose fascicles, 

 bracts numerous, soon falling; sep. lanceolate, subacute, per- 

 sistent ; pet. oblong-strap-shaped, scarcely twice as long as 

 Sep., persistent; fruit globose, apiculate ; seeds mottled. 



Montane zone ; rare. Hewahette near the Great Western mountain 

 (Thwaites) ; Nitre Cave District. Fl. Sept. 

 Endemic. 



3. A. virg'ata, Hk. f. and Th. in Fl. B. Ind. \. 189 (1872). 

 [Plate V.] 



Scyphellandra virgata, Thw. Enum. 21. C. P. 1085. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 189. 



A small shrub, with long, straight, virgate, pubescent 

 twigs; 1. numerous, very variable, \-\\ in., the smaller ones 

 in fascicles, very shortly stalked, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 

 obtuse or subacute, faintly serrate, glabrous, stip. very small, 

 acute; fl. solitary or in small axillary fascicles, pedicels short, 

 very slender ; sep. subacute ; disk of 5 scales (not annular) ; 

 stam. with nearly sessile anth. coherent by their margin ; 

 style long, stigma 3 -fid ; fruit globose, with a long apiculus ; 

 seeds cream-coloured. 



Dry and intermediate country ; rather rare. Mineri (Gardner) ; 

 Bintenne ; Uma-oya ; Atakalan Korale ; Lenadore, near Dambulla. 

 Fl. July. 



Endemic. 



XL— BIXACE^, 



Trees or shrubs, sometimes spinous ; 1. alternate, simple, 

 without stip ; fl. regular, bisexual or unisexual and dioecious ; 

 sep. 4-8, usually 5, distinct, imbricate (rarely completely 

 connate) ; pet. 4-6, usually 5, imbricate or contorted, or o ; 

 ov. I -celled, with 3-7 parietal placentas (in Flacourtia pro- 



