212 Geraniacec?. [Hydrocera- 



oblong-ovate, acute ; lip very large, saccate, nearly i in. deep, 

 inflated ; spur very short, narrow, blunt, strongly curved 

 upward ; standard i in., broad, acute, hooded ; wings small, 

 I in., upper lobe short, inconspicuous, lower lobe rotundate. 



Montane zone, 4000-6000 ft.; rare. Between Ramboda and Nuwara 

 Eliya ; Maturata ; Haputale ; Uda Pusselawe ; near Badulla. 

 Fl. Oct. -April ; scarlet. 

 Endemic. 

 The Haputale specimens have yellow flowers. 



5. KVDROCERA, Bl. 



Annual ; fl. in axillary clusters, irregular ; sep. 5, the 

 anterior one, lip (really posterior) shortly spurred ; pet. 5, 

 the posterior, standard (really anterior) large, the lateral 

 ones distinct ; stam. 5, fil. flat, anth. slightly coherent, opening 

 at apex ; ov. 5-celled, with 2 or 3 ovules in each cell, stigma 

 sessile; fruit a drupe, stone bony, 5-celled ; seeds one in each 

 cell, without endosperm. — Monotypic. 



K. ang-ustifolia, Bl. Bijd. 241 (1825). Diya-kudalu, Wal- 

 kudalu, .s. 



Herm. Par. Bat. 105. Herm. Mus. 35. Burm. Thes. 43. Fl. Zeyl. n. 

 315. Impaiicns triflora^ L. Sp. PI. 938 ; Moon Cat. 18. H. tnjlora, W. 

 and A., Thw. Enum. 68. C. P. 12 10. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 483 {H. triflora). Burm. Thes. t. 16 f. 2 (bad). Herm. 

 Par. Bat. t. 105. 



Annual, stem long, erect, or floating and rooting at the 

 nodes, with erect branches, thick, hollow, quadrangular, 

 glabrous ; 1. very long, 5-8 in., alternate, sessile, linear, much 

 attenuate at both ends, serrate, with 2 rounded glands at the 

 base in the place of stip.; fl. rather large, about i in., on 

 slender, glabrous ped. about \ in., usually 3 together at end of 

 short, axillary peduncle, bracts oblong, obtuse, caducous ; 

 sep. oval-oblong, obtuse, unequal ; lip concave, boat-shaped, 

 acute, gibbous at base ; spur short, blunt, curved, smooth at 

 the end ; standard broad, hooded, lower pet. long, clawed, 

 included in lip, somewhat 3-lobed, with margin involute near 

 the base, upper ones much smaller ; drupe subglobose, under 

 h in., smooth, purplish-red, pulp scanty, green, stone shar])ly 

 5-angled, readily separating into its 5 constituent carp. 



Low country in wet places, very common. Fl. all the year ; white ; 

 the lip and lower pet. stained with yellow and pink. 

 Throughout India, Malay Peninsula, and in Java. 



