Klugia.'] GesneracecB. 277 



capsule small, oblong, pointed, valves 2, each splitting- into 

 halves ; seeds minute, reticulate. — Monotypic and endemic. 



C. reticulata, Gardn. in Calc. Joiirn. Nat. Hist. vi. 485 (1845). 

 Thvv. Enum. 208. Clarke, 1. c. 133. C. P. 358 (370). 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 361. Clarke, Mon. Cyrt. t. 15. 



Stem erect, 6-12 in., slightly branched, rough with shaggy 

 hair especially above ; 1. 3-5 in., lanceolate-oblong, much 

 tapering at base, acute or subacute, entire, finely hairy on 

 both sides but more so beneath, lat. veins numerous, oblique, 

 conspicuous beneath, petiole \-\\ in., hairy ; fl. on rather 

 long glabrous ped., numerous, cymes lax, irregularly tricho- 

 tomous, peduncles often 2 from an axil, about 3 in., hairy, 

 bracts linear, conspicuous ; cal.-segm. filiform, very acute, 

 slightly hairy ; cor. \ in. diam., lobes ovate, obtuse, stam. 

 exserted ; capsule about | in., slightly pubescent. 



Moist low country up to 3000 ft.; rare. 'South of the Island, abun- 

 dant' (Thwaites) ; Sabaragamuwa Dist.; below Adam's Peak; Eratne, 

 Kuruwita Korale. Fl. Feb., March, and Aug., Sept.; white. 



Endemic. 



5. K.X.UGZA, Schlecht. 



Annual herbs with succulent stems ; 1. alt, thin, very un- 

 equal at base, fl. moderate-sized, in stalked, one-sided 

 terminal or leaf-opposed racemes, bracts small ; cal. cam- 

 panulate, tube 5-angled, segm. 5, narrowly triangular ; cor.- 

 tube cylindrical below, compressed and closed at the mouth, 

 limb 2-lipped, upper lip very small, erect, lower lip large, flat, 

 entire or faintly 3-lobed ; stam. 4, included, fil. equal, anth. 

 all connate, cells short, confluent, staminodes (posterior 

 stam.) very small, often absent ; disk annular or cup-shaped ; 

 ov. I -celled, with two T-shaped placentas ; capsule included 

 in cal., ovoid, pointed, membranaceous, loculicidally 2-valved; 

 seeds truncate at ends, reticulate. — Sp. 4 ; 3 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Posterior angle of cal.-tube produced into a large 



crest I. K. Notoniana. 



All the angles of cal.-tube equally narrowly winged . 2. K. zeyl.a.nica. 



I. K. Notoniana, A. DC. Prodr. ix. 276 (1845). Diyanilla, S, 



Gardn. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 487. Thw. Enum. 208. Clarke. 

 1. c. 159. C. P. 1787. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 366. Wight, let. 1353. 



Annual, stem 1-2 ft, branched, stout, shining, semi- 

 transparent, glabrous or slightly hispid with few short bristly 



