174 Loganiacecs. [s^rycknos. 



L. rather smaller, less acuminate, very coriaceous ; cor. 

 larger ; ov. villous. 



Low country, rare. Galle (Champion) ; Bibile. Var. j3, ' Central 

 Province.' Fl. Feb.; white. 



Also in Travancore. 



This is very like 5". colubrina, but apparently sometimes an erect tree. 

 Var. /8 may be a distinct species, as considered by Thw., but there is no 

 fruit to the C. P. specimens. Thwaites confused this with and included 

 it in his 5. micrantha^ and Clarke's (in Fl. B. Ind.) description seems still 

 partly to be taken from that species. 



4. S. Benthaini, Clarke in Fl. B. Ind. iv. 87 (1883). 



5. minor, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. loi (excl. var. a) fnon Bl.) ; 

 Thw. Enum. 201. C. P. 187. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 87. 



A small shrub, scarcely at all scandent, with very many 

 divaricate branches, the younger ones often with long, straight, 

 sharp, slender spines in the axils, tendrils small, terminal, 

 solitary, circinate; 1. i-|-3 in., ovate-oval, acute at both ends, 

 apiculate, 3- (or faintly 5-) nerved, paler beneath, petiole short; 

 fl. few, very small, cymes small, nearly sessile, axillary, pubes- 

 cent; cal.-segm. short, acute, puberulous; cor.-lobes 4 (rarely 

 5), hairy within, acute; berry small, about \ in. diam., seeds 

 usually 2, plano-convex. 



Var. /3, parvifolia, Benth. I. c. C. P. 341. 



Intricately and very divaricately branched, with many 

 horizontal twigs, spines, and tendrils ; 1. smaller, \-\ in. 



Moist low country, rather rare. Colombo; Kalutara; Balangoda. Var. 

 /3, montane zone, common. Fl. June-September; white 



Endemic. 



This is perhaps the .S". recurva, Moon Cat. 15, for which he gives the 

 native name ' Katukirindi.' It has much the habit and appearance of a 

 Canthium, or (var. /3) of a small Eugenia. A form of var. /3, with the 

 leaves much acuminate, occurs at Matale East and Nitre Cave (var. 

 anguslior, Benth. 1. c). 



5. S cinnamomifolla, Tkw. Enum. 201 (i860). Sta-klrindl- 

 wel, Wel-beli, .S. 



6". iner/nis, Moon Cat. 15 Q). Thw. Enum. 201. C. P. 1867. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 89. Wight, Ic. t. 434(.'') (5. colubrina). 



A very large woody climber, stems attaining 3-4 in. diam., 

 bark smooth, yellowish-grey, branches divaricate, twigs dilated 

 at nodes, tendrils large, solitary, axillary and terminal, cir- 

 cinate, much thickened ; 1. 3-4 in., oval or lanceolate-oval, 

 tapering or rounded at base, acuminate, acute, strongly 3- 

 nerved, petiole :|-| in.; fl. large (for genus), on pubescent pad.. 



