Gordotiia.'] Ternsti'iv7]iiacc(2 . ill 



A moderate-sized or large tree, \'oung shoots silky- 

 pubescent ; 1. on very short thick petioles, 3-5 in., lanceolate 

 or oval or oblong-lanceolate, acute or rounded at base, 

 acuminate, acute or subacute, entire, margin sometimes 

 revolute, glabrous, paler and veinless beneath ; fl. large, 

 l|-3 in., axillary, solitary, ped. under \ in.; sep. rotundate, 

 stiff, scarious at margins, 2 inner much larger, glabrous, 

 ciliate ; pet. very much longer than sep., rotund, with a broad 

 claw, pilose externally at the base ; stam. not connate at base, 

 anth. -cells curved ; capsule \-\\ in., surrounded at base by 

 persistent sep., oblong-ovoid, obtuse, apiculate, valves triangular 

 in section ; seeds flattened, pale brown. 



^^ar. [i. elliptica, Gar-dn. in Calc. /01/rn. N'a/. Hist. vii. 448 

 (1846) (sp.). 



Young shoots glabrous ; 1. sessile, broadest at the base, 

 very obtuse at both ends ; fl. sessile, rather larger ; sep. 

 puberulous outside. 



Montane zone in the forests 4000-7000 ft.; common. Haputale; 

 N. Kliya ; Dimbula ; Maturata ; Hakgala ; Hunasgiriya ; Rangala. 

 Van /i. Elephant Plains, 6000 ft. (Gardner). Fl. Sept. -Nov. ; white. 



Endemic. 



Gardner's G. eUiptica is kept up as a species in Fl. B. Ind. I can see 

 no difference from G. zeylanica save the shorter and somewhat broader 

 lea\-es ; it is No. 93 of Gardner's plants. C. P. 2417 referred to it by 

 Thwaites is intermediate between it and the type. I have never seen 

 either leaves or flowers absolutely sessile. 



Wood red, smooth, hard, shining. The up-country carpenters apply 

 the name ' Mihiriya' to this, but it is very unlike the wood properly so 

 called {Dichopsis grandis). 



2. Cr. speciosa, C/wisy, Mem. Tern. p. 52 (1855). 



Carria* speciosa, Gardn. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vii. 7. Thw. Enum 

 40. C. P. 2043. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 292. 



A tree, 40-50 ft., bark smooth and shining, young twigs 

 glabrous ; 1. 3-6 in., sessile or nearly so, oval or oblong-oval, 

 very obtuse, often emarginate, entire, margin often revolute, 

 coriaceous, glabrous, purplish and veinless beneath ; fl. very 

 large, 3-4 in. diam., solitary, on short, thick, axillary ped., 

 bearing a few bracts; sep. 3-5, broad-oval, glabrous, ciliate; 

 pet. broadly obcordate, 2 in., connate at base, silky outside ; 

 stam. coherent into 5 bundles, adherent to base of pet. and 

 o as long ; ov. hairy, style as long as stam. ; capsule surrounded 



* Dedicated to the Hon. (afterwards Sir) W. O. Carr, F.L.S., Senior 

 Puisne Judge of Ceylon in 1846. 



