Mada.] Ebe7iacecE, 89 



Moist low country, very rare. Hiniduma Pattu (Thwaites); Bentota 

 (Col. Clarke) ; Marakelle Forest, Kuruwiti Korale (Lewis). 



Endemic. 



I have little material for describing this species. The natives called 

 it ' Kalu-mediriya' at Bentota and ' Ho-mediriya' in Kuruwiti. 



3. UK. oblongrifolia, Hiern, Mon. Eben. 112 (1873). 

 Macreightia oblongifolta, Thw. Enum. 183. C. P. 3396. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 550. Bedd. For. Man. t. 21, f. i. 



A small or moderate-sized tree, bark dark grey, young 

 shoots with copious spreading fulvous silky hair; 1. on very 

 short petioles, rather large, 3J-8 in., oblong-oval or oblong- 

 lanceolate, rounded at base, shortly acuminate, glabrous above, 

 more or less fulvous-hairy on veins beneath, rather coriaceous, 

 venation very prominent beneath, lat. veins 8-1 1 ; fl. on short 

 stout ped., male crowded in short spicate racemes from axils 

 of past and present 1., fem. solitary from lower part of young 

 shoots below the 1.; cal. very hairy, male with short segm., 

 fem. cut nearly to base ; cor.-tube very hairy, lobes short, 

 rounded; stam. about 12; fruit |-i in., depressed-globose, 

 faintly 6-grooved, densely silky-tomentose; seed |- in., rounded 

 on back, dull black, testa splitting dorsally. 



Moist low country below 1000 ft., rather common. Pasdun Korale; 

 Hewesse; Singhe Raja Forest; Ratnapura; Hiniduma. Fl. March, April. 



Endemic. 



The timber is said to be good, but I have not seen a specimen ; it 

 appears to be one of those called ' Kalu-mediriya.' 



4. VL. buxifolia, Pers. Syn. PL ii. 606 (1807). Kalu-habara- 

 liya, S. Juvarai, Irumpalai, T. 



Herm. Mus. 21. Fl. Zeyl. n. 430. Moon Cat. 68. Thw. Enum, 183. 

 Hiern, Mon. Eben. 116. C. P. 477. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 551. Wight, Ic. t. 763. 



A bush or small tree with many twiggy branchlets, bark 

 dark dull grey, rather smooth, young parts slightly hairy; 1, 

 very numerous, usually under i in. (but often larger) on very 

 short petioles, obovate-oblong or spathulate, tapering to base, 

 very obtuse, often emarginate, coriaceous, narrowly revolute 

 at margin, venation conspicuous but not prominent beneath, 

 lat veins not distinct from general reticulation; fl. 1-3 in 1.- 

 axils; cal. slightly pilose, with triangular acute segm., en- 

 larging and becoming cupular and truncate with fruit ; cor. 

 campanulate, twice as long as cal, very hairy outside, lobes 

 oblong-ovate, acute; stam. 6-12; fruit fin., ovoid, apiculate, 

 nearly glabrous, red ; seeds 3 (or less by abortion), plano- 

 convex, yellow. 



