Camcora.] GentianacecB. 183 



6. E. sessile, L. Sp. PI. 112 (1753). 



Herm. Mus. 36. Burm. Thes. 57. Fl. Zeyl. n. 61. Vahl, Symb. Bot. 

 111. 16. Moon Cat. 10. Thw. Enum. 203. C. P. 250. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 98. Wight, Ic. t. 1324, f. i. 



Stem 4-12 in., slender, quadrangular, branched above; 

 1. very small, ^-f in., sessile, ovate, rounded at base, obtuse, 

 apiculate, obscurely 3-nerved; fl. few, nodding, on short curved 

 ped.; cal.-segm. ovate, acute, without wings; cor. under \ in. 

 diam., lobes 4, broadly oval, obtuse; anth. not tapering; cap- 

 sule globose. 



Moist low country and up to 4000 ft.; rather common. Fl. April, 

 August, Dec; dark bright-violet. 



Also in S. India (.?). 



Again there is discrepancy in book-descriptions of the colour of the 

 flowers. Hermann says yellow, the Fl. B. Ind. white ; both incorrect 

 as far as Ceylon is concerned. A dwarf uniflorous state, under 2 in. high, 

 occurs in the hills. 



2. KOPPEA, Willd. 

 Small annual herb, 1. opp., sessile, fl. small, in dense dicho- 

 tomous cymes; cal. tubular, membranous, segm. 4, lanceolate, 

 strongly aristate; cor. tubular, lobes 4, unequal, shorter than 

 tube, contorted ; stam. inserted in cor.-throat, i perfect, 3 barren ; 

 ov. I -celled with 2 placentas, style short; capsule globose, 

 septicidally 2-valved ; seeds very minute. — Sp. 2 ; both in 

 Fl. B. hid. 



K. fastlg-lata, Clarke in Fl. B. Ind. iv. 100 (1883). 



Cicendia fastigiata, Griseb. in DC. Prod. ix. 62. Pladera ptisilla 

 Thw. Enum. 204, 425 (non Roxb.). P. fastigiata^ Clarke in Journ. Linn 

 Sec. xiv. 429. C. P. 2840. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 100. Wight, 111. t. 157 b, f. ii. B. 



Stem 2-4 in., stout, quadrangular, strongly winged at angles, 

 glabrous, branched above ; 1. sessile, \-l in., subrotundate, 

 obtuse, glabrous ; fl. small, nearly sessile, in forks of cyme- 

 branches ; cal.-segm. longer than tube, with a thickened margin ; 

 cor. longer than cal., lobes lanceolate, acute, slightly unequal. 



Moist low country; rare. Peradeniya (Gardner); Galle. Fl. Dec; 

 white. 



Also in S. India and Burma. 



Grisebach's specimens were from Macrae. I have never met with 

 this plant. 



3. CANSCORA,* Za;;;. 

 Annual erect herbs, branched above, stems quadrangular, 



* Cansjancora is the native name given by Rheede for C. perfoliata 

 in Hort. Malab. x. 103. 



