Impatiens^ GeraniaCCCEi 200 



Montane zone, 4000-6000 ft.; rather rare. Ambagamuwa ; Nuvvara 

 Eliya ; Hevvahette ; Ramboda. Fl. October-Feb.; white, with the 

 standard pink. 



Endemic. 



15. Z. leucantha, Thiu. Enitm. 67 (1S5S). 



c. P. 3548. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 464. 



Annual, 4-10 in., stem erect, simple, succulent, glabrous; 

 1. crowded at summit, 2-4 in., narrowly lanceolate, tapering 

 into short petiole, acuminate, acute, distantly spinous-serrate 

 with the lower teeth filiform glandular, glabrous or with a few 

 scattered hairs, very thin ; fl. about fin., on slender, -|in. ped., 

 few, in short, crowded racemes at end of straight peduncles 

 rather shorter than 1., bracts ovate, acute ; sep. ovate, acute ; 

 lip small, boat- shaped, spur as long, conical, straight; standard 

 short, rotundate, wings long, over \ i"-, approximate or over- 

 lapping, lobes very unequal, upper small, lanceolate, lower 

 3-lobed, with the middle one the longest ; capsule \ in., ovoid, 

 pointed, glabrous ; seeds finely muriculated. 



Moist low country; very rare. Hiniduma ; Kitulgala ; Ambaga- 

 muwa. Fl. Sep., Nov.; white. 

 Endemic. 



16. Z. linearis, Am. in Comp. Bot. Mag. i. i-l (iSjS)- 



Thw. Enum. 67. C. P. 372. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 464. 



Perennial (.'), stem stout, 9-12 in., prostrate at base then 

 erect, succulent, glabrous, marked with prominent leaf-scars ; 

 1. i-2|- in., numerous, rather crowded, sessile, linear- or lan- 

 ceolate-oblong, tapering to base, acute, strongly and distantly 

 spinose - serrate, glabrous, rather thick, paler beneath ; fl. 

 \-\ in., ped. long, slender, 6-10 crowded in a very short 

 raceme, peduncle straight, exceeding the 1., bracts ovate, 

 apiculate ; sep. oblong -ovate, apiculate ; lip boat -shaped, 

 rounded, acuminate ; spur about as long as lip or shorter, 

 slender, straight ; standard short, wings long, approximate, 

 upper lobe very small, oblong-oval, lower lobe large, half-oval, 

 acute, slightly falcate. 



Moist low country ; very rare (.''). Lower slopes of Adam's Peak ; 

 Veddagalle, Kukul Korale. Fl. March ; rose-pink. 

 Endemic. 



17. Z. append iculata, Am. in Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 323 (1835). 



Thw. Enum. 67. C. P. 1207, 1208, 1209. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 464. 



Annual, stem 6-12 in., stout, erect, sometimes branched 

 below, glabrous ; 1. scattered on stem and also crowded at its 



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