Holarrhena?^ ApOCynacCCE. 1 3 1 



Alariya. It is always a planted tree, and very rarely produces seed here.* 

 Nor can the time of its introduction be very far back ; indeed, I have not 

 met with earlier printed mention of it here than in Moon Cat. 20 (1824). 

 Further east it was known in the latter part of the sev-enteenth century, 

 and Rumphius, who first described and figured it under the name of 

 'Flos convolutus,' says (Herb. Amb. iv. 85, t. 38) that it was brought to 

 Ternate and Amboyna by Chinese merchants from Cambodia. It was 

 introduced as a stove plant to England from the 'East Indies' in 1790. 

 Thus all its history is that of a plant of the Eastern Tropics, yet nowhere 

 in that region has it been noticed as a wild plant. Moreover, as all the 

 other species of Pltaneria (over 40) are known only as natives of Tropical 

 America, it is reasonable to suppose that this one also was brought 

 originally from the New World ; but I do not find that it has been 

 recorded as a wild plant even there. 



9. KOIiARRKSNA, Br. 



Tree, 1. opp., fl. rather large, in axillary cymes; cal.-tube 

 very short, segrn. 5, linear, acute; cor.-tube very slender, 

 naked in the throat, lobes 5, strap-shaped, longer than tube, 

 overlapping to left; stam. 5, inserted at base of tube, anth. 

 very acute; disk o; carp. 2, distinct, ovules numerous; ripe 

 carp, both developed, follicular, very long and slender, obtuse, 

 many-seeded; seed linear, compressed, with a long tuft of 

 hair (comaj at one end, endosperm scanty. — Sp. 8; 2 in FL 

 B. Ind, 



K. mitis, Br. in Mem. Wer7i. Soc. i. 62 (181 1). Kiri-walla, 

 XLiri-mawara, S. 



Carissa viitis, Vahl, Symb. Bot. iii. 44. Echites hinceolata, Moon Cat. 

 20. Thw. Enum. 194. C. P. 756. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 645. Vahl, 1. c. t. 59. 



A rather tall slender tree, with whitish rather smooth bark, 

 branchlets slender, drooping, with smooth purplish bark, young 

 parts glabrous; 1. 1J-3I in., on short petioles, oblong-lanceo- 

 late, acute at base, acuminate, obtuse, glabrous, thin, usually 

 recurved, veins pellucid, lat. ones much curved; fl. on rather 

 long slender pubescent ped., in short lax corymbose or pani- 

 culate cymes, bracts very small, acicular; cal.-segm. very 

 acute; cor.-tube about -| in., lobes f in., strap-shaped, obtuse; 

 follicles i-i|ft. long, linear, cylindrical, smooth; seed narrow, 

 coma copious, twice as long as seed, reddish. 



Low country to 1500 ft., chiefly in the dry region; rather rare. Rat- 

 napura ; Negombo; Sigiri; Gunner's Quoin (Nevill) a single plant. Fl. 

 April ; pure white, sweet-scented. 



Endemic. 



* Ripe fruit has been twice sent to me from the Knuckles District, but 

 I have never met with it elsewhere. 



