Couama.] Rha7n ua cea^. 285 



panicles 2-3 in., from the axils of the 1., especially of the 

 terminal pair; cal. glabrous, segm. triangular; pet. enclosing 

 stam. ; berry \ in., ovoid, supported on persistent cal., smooth, 

 red. 



Upper montane zone ; rare. Maturata (Thvvaites) ; Hakgala ; Peduru- 

 talagala. Fl. July, August ; pinkish-white. 



Also in Java. This may perhaps not be distinct from .S". hainosa^ 

 Brongn., of Nepal and Peninsular India (see Fl. B. Ind. i. 641). 



6. COI.UBRZNA, Rich. 



Shrubs ; 1. alternate ; fl. in small axillary cymes ; cal. 

 deeply 5-fid, tube hemispherical, enlarging in fruit ; pet. 5 ; 

 stam. 5, inserted outside disk; disk fleshy, filling cal.-tube ; 

 ov. half-inferior, immersed in disk, 3-celled, style 3-lobed ; 

 fruit a capsule, surrounded for lower third by closely adherent 

 cal.-tube, 3-celled, septicidally dehiscent by 3 cartilaginous 

 valves ; seed with a straight embryo, in scanty endosperm. — 

 Sp. 10; 3 in /^/. B. Ind. 



C. asiatica, Brongn. in Anyt. Sc. Naf., ser. i, x. 369 (1827). Tel- 

 hiriya, S. Mayirmanikkam, T. 



Herm. Mus. 18. Burm. Thes. in. Fl. Zeyl. n. 98. Ceanothus 

 asiaticHs, L. Sp. PI. 196 ; Moon Cat. 17. Thw. Enum. 75. C. P. 1239. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 642. Burm. Thes. t. 48. Wight, 111. i. t. 74- Bedd. FL 

 Sylv. t. anal. x. f. 5. 



A much-branched shrub, young parts glabrous; 1. ih-2^ in., 

 ovate, rounded or subcordate at base, acuminate, obtuse, 

 crenate-serrate, glabrous, thin, somewhat 3-veined at base, 

 petiole -|-f in. ; fl. pedicellate, in small, axillary, nearly sessile 

 cymes ; cal. slightly hairy, segm. acute ; pet. as long as sep., 

 clawed, involute; disk lobed at margin; capsule globose, fin,, 

 smooth ; seeds dull, brownish-grey. 



Dry reeion ; rather common. Trincomalie ; Batticaloa ; Karativu I.; 

 Kurunegala. Fl. greenish-yellow. 



Throughout India and Malaya, and in Australia and vS.W. Africa. 



Hermann gives the name ' Wael-mindi ' for this, which seems to be 

 properly the name of the grape-vine. 



7. GOUANZA, Z. 



Climbing shrubs, with axillary, circinate tendrils (modified 

 branches); 1. alternate; fl. polygamous, in axillary and ter- 

 minal spikes ; cal. deeply 5-lobed, tube obconical, connate 

 with ov.; pet. 5, involute; stam. 5, inserted outside disk; 



