Epithema.'] Gesneracece. 2J(^ 



Damp shady places by streams in the moist low country to 3000 ft.; 

 common. Fl. June-August ; bright purplish-blue, with a small yellow 

 spot at base, upper lip white. 



Endemic. 



The flowers are rather smaller than in K. Notoniana, and of a rather 

 paler purple-blue. 



\Rhyitcliogloss2tm zcylanicum, Hook., is figured in Bot. Mag. t. 4195 

 (1845), where it is said to have been sent from Ceylon by Gardner. It is 

 referred in Fl. B. Ind. iv. 367 to \zx.parviflora of/?, obliquuin, Bl., which 

 is common in India and Malaya, but does not occur in Ceylon in a wild 

 state. It is an occasional weed in the Botanic Gardens at Peradeniya, 

 whence Gardner probably obtained it.] 



6. EFITKEBIA, BL 



Annual, succulent, 1. few, alt. and opp., fl. small in dense, 

 scorpioid cymes; cal. campanulate, segm. 5, acute; cor.-tube 

 short, limb distinctly 2-Hpped, upper lip deeply 2-lobed, 

 lower 3-lobed ; stam. 2, fil. short, anth. connate, cells short, 

 confluent, staminodes (anterior stam.) 2, large, curved ; ov. 

 i-celled, with large T-shaped placentas; capsule included in 

 cal., membranaceous, dehiscing by a lid ; seeds numerous, 

 stalked, oblong-ovoid, spirally striated. — Sp. 6 ; i in Fl. B. 

 Ind. 



E. carnosum, Benth. Scroph. Ind. 57 (1835), var. zeylanicum, 



Clarke, Mon. Cyrt. 178 (1883). 



E. zeylaniciim., Gardn. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 492. Thw. Enum. 

 208. C. P. 2844. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 369. Wight, Ic. t. 1354 (not good). Clarke, Comm. & 

 Cyrt. Beng. t. 90. 



Stem 3-12 in., slightly branched, with many filiform roots 

 from the base, erect, succulent, rough with bristly hairs ; 1. 

 few (sometimes only i), the upper opp., sessile, the lower alt. 

 petiolate, 2-6 in., ovate-oval, cordate or rounded at base, 

 obtuse, more or less incised-serrate or nearly entire, covered 

 on both sides with soft bristly hair ; fl. on very short ped., 

 densely crowded in close scorpioid cymes, peduncles solitary 

 or 2-5 together, terminal (rarely axillary), 3-4 in., erect, 

 slightly hairy, often fused with petiole or base of 1., with a 

 large cordate leafy bract at summit immediately beneath infl.; 

 cal.-segm. narrowly lanceolate, acute, hairy ; lobes of upper 

 lip of cor. oblong, serrate, acute, of lower lip rounded, equal ; 

 capsule very small, globose. 



In crevices of damp rocks in moist region from 2000-5000 ft.; rather 

 rare. Dolosbagie; Hantane; Kadaganawa. Fl. Feb. and Aug., Sept.; 

 bright pale blue. 



