66 Prtmulacecs . \Lysimachia. 



I. Xi. ramosa, Wall. Cat. n. 1490 (1828). 

 Thw. Enum. 172. C. P. 1896. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 503. 



Annual or perennial, stem erect, 2-4 ft., much branched 

 above, glabrous, strongly 5-winged ; 1. alt., rather large, 3-5 

 in., sessile, decurrent into the wings of the stem, narrowly 

 lanceolate, entire, glabrous, thin, rather glaucous beneath ; fl. 

 rather large, on slender slightly drooping glabrous ped. shorter 

 than 1. ; cal. glabrous, segm. long-acuminate ; cor. f in. or 

 more diam., lobes ovate, obtuse, spreading ; capsule nearly 

 globose, tipped by persistent style, \ in. diam., glabrous ; 

 seeds compressed, slightly muriculate. 



Upper montane zone, above 6000 ft., in shady forests, rather common. 

 Fl. October ; bright yellow, green in the tube. 



Also in the E. Himalayas, Burma, and Java, not in Peninsular 

 India. 



Our plant differs slightly from the type, and is called var. seylanica 

 in Fl. B. Ind. 



2. Zi. deltoidea, Wight., III. ii. 137 (1850). 



L. japonica, Thw. Enum. 172 (non Thunb ). C. P. 1895, 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 505. Wight, 111. t. 144. 



Perennial herb with prostrate, much branched, slender, 

 woolly stems, rooting at the nodes ; 1. opp., on hairy petioles, 

 ■|-i in., broadly ovate, rounded or cordate at base, obtuse but 

 apiculate at apex, hairy on both sides, paler and often gland- 

 dotted beneath ; fl. on very woolly ped. about as long as 1. ; 

 cal. hairy, segm. lanceolate, very acute; cor. about ^ in. diam., 

 lobes rounded ; capsule about J in. diam., shorter than cal. ; 

 seeds angled, rather rough. 



Upper montane zone, over 6000 ft., in shady places, rather rare. 

 Nuwara Eliya ; Maturata. Fl. April ; bright yellow. 

 Also in the Nilgiri and Pulni Mountains. 



Anagallts ccertilea, Lam., occurs in a few places between N. Eliya and 

 Badulla, but is, no doubt, an introduced weed. It is C. P. 313 1. 



{Cyclamen indiaan, L. Uritlu, Herm. Mus. 57. Fl. Zeyl. n. 401. 

 There is no specimen of this in Hermann's Herb., but his drawing 

 appears to represent a Cyclamen. If found in Ceylon, it must, of course, 

 have been cultivated.] 



