yS Polygalacem, 



Upper montane zone on banks of streams ; rather common. Fl. Feb.; 

 greenish yellow. 



Also in the Nilgiri Mountains. 



C. P. 3994 is referred by me (Cat. Ceyl. PI. 6) doubtfully to P. neel^Jie- 

 nense, W. and A., figured at Wight, 111. i. t. 70. The specimens are in 

 flower only, so that the seeds cannot be examined. The flowers are in 

 racemes, not umbels, larger, with ovate sep. and longer glabrous ped., 

 and the leaves narrower and more oblong. I have gathered the same 

 plant with very revolute leaves on the Elk Plains, also without fruit. It 

 may be W. and A.'s species, but can scarcely be distinct specifically from 

 P.. tetraspernmm. 



2. P. zeylanicum, Wight, III. i. 173 (1838). K^tiya, S. 

 Thw. Enum. 68. C. P. 476. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 199. 



A small tree, 1 5-20 ft., bark smooth, whitish, young shoots 

 glabrous or slightly pubescent ; 1. 3-5 in., crowded at ends of 

 branches, lanceolate- or obovate-oblong, much tapering at 

 base, obtuse or rounded at apex, entire, often rather undulate, 

 glabrous, ped. i-f in. ; fl. numerous, in long-stalked, racemose 

 or paniculate corymbs at end of branches, equalling or ex- 

 ceeding 1., ped. smooth ; sep. oval, subacute, glabrous ; pet. 

 nearly | in., linear, erect, spreading at ends ; stam. shorter 

 than pet. ; ov. glabrous or nearly so, ovules 8, style long ; cap- 

 sule subglobose, somewhat depressed, i-| in., tipped with 

 style, slightly rough, yellow, valves very thick, resinous, hard ; 

 seeds about 8, angular, closely packed, unequal, erect from 

 basal placentas, testa pulpy, orange-red. 



Moist low country, and extending in the montane zone up to 6000 ft.; 

 rather common. Sabaragamuwa (Moon) ; Deltota ; Atampitiya ; Ba- 

 dulla, Galagama and elsewhere in Uva ; Hakgala ; Summit of Ritigala, 

 N.C. Prov. Fl. April ; yellowish-white, sweet-scented. 



Endemic. 



I do not find that this turns black in drying as stated in Fl. B. Ind. 

 (following Wight). 



XIII.— POLYGALACE^. 



Herbs rarely shrubs, or trees ; 1. simple, alternate, entire, with- 

 out stip.; fl, irregular, bisexual ; sep. 5, more or less unequal, 

 imbricate ; pet. 3 or 5, distinct or somewhat connate, free or united 

 at base with stam.; stam. 8 or 4-5, distinct or monadelphous» 

 anth. opening by terminal pores ; ov. i- or 2-celled, with i or 

 few ovules in each cell ; fruit a 2-celled, 2-sccded capsule, or 

 I -seeded and indehiscent ; seeds with or without endosperm. 



