1 70 Loganiacecs. [Fagraa. 



I. MITRASACiaE, Lab. 



Annual herb, 1. opp., connate at base, fl. axillary, solitary; 

 cal. campanulate, segm. 4 ; cor, campanulate, lobes 4, valvate ; 

 stam. 4, inserted near base of cor.-tube ; ov. 2-celled, with 

 numerous ovules in each cell, stigma 2-lobed, the styles ulti- 

 mately distinct; fruit a capsule, capped by 2 horns (persistent 

 distinct styles), 2-celled, dehiscent from above down each side 

 of septum ; seeds numerous, ovoid, peltately attached, minutely 

 lobulate. — Sp. 28; 3 in FL B. Ind. 



IM[. alsinoides, Br. Prod. 452 (i8ic). 



M. iftdica, Wight, Thw. Enum. 200. C. P. 1677. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 80. Wight, Ic. t. 160 1, left-hand fig. {M. indicd). 



Small, 2-9 in. high, stems slender, compressed, 2-edged, 

 weak, glabrous, slightly branched; 1. sessile, linear, acute; fl. 

 on slender spreading ped., much exceeding the 1., cal. mem- 

 branaceous, glabrous, segm. shallow, triangular, acute ; cor.- 

 lobes ovate, shorter than tube, slightly hairy at base; capsule 

 globose, surrounded by persistent cal., truncate, but with 2 

 terminal falcately curved converging horns. 



Low country, rather common, but easily overlooked. Fl. Jan.-April ; 

 white. 



Also in India, Burma, Borneo, Philippines, Australia. 

 Easily mistaken at first sight for an Oldenlandia. 



Biiddleia asiatica, Lour., a common Indian and Malayan species, has 

 not been met with in Ceylon. 



2. FAGRHIA, Thiinb. 



Shrubs or small trees, 1. opp., without stip., thick, fl. very 



large, in terminal trichotomous cymes ; cal. deeply cut into 5 



rounded, imbricate segm., persistent and enlarged in fruit ; 



cor. tubular-funnel-shaped, lobes 5, much contorted; stam. 5, 



inserted in cor.-tube, anth. versatile; ov. i -celled or 2-cclled 



by coalescence of placentas, with very numerous ovules, style 



long, simple, stigma large, capitate; fruit fleshy, indehisccnt; 



seeds very numerous, immersed in the pulpy placentas, embryo 



small, in horny endosperm. — Sp. 30; 12 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Cor.-tube over 3 in., lobes less than half as long . i. F. ZEYLANICA. 

 Cor.-tube under 2 in., lobes more than half as long . 2. F. obovata. 



I. F. zeylanica, Thunh. Gen. Nov. 35 (1782). Etamburu, S. 



Solandra oppositifolia, Moon Cat. 15. Thw. Enum. 200. C. P. 1824. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 83. Bl. Rumph. ii. t. 78, f. 2. Bot. Mag. t. 6080 (from a 

 Ceylon specimen). 



