Elytraria.] AcanthacecB. 289 



Grassy places in all parts of the island up to 7000 ft.; common. Van 

 j8, Lagalla. Var. y, summit of Ritigala. Fl. all the year ; pure white. 



Throughout India, Malaya, Burma, Philippines, Trop. Australia. 



The flowers never have the slightest scent. Roxburgh bestowed the 

 name fragra7is from ' a peculiar and agreeable fragrance of the plant,' 

 •which I am unable to detect ; he expressly says that the flower is scentless. 



T. alata, Boj., is a very common weed among grasses in the moist 

 region up to 5000 ft. Its pretty flowers — orange-yellow, pale yellow, or 

 milk-white, with the tube purple-black and hairy within — are abundant 

 throughout the year, the plant being completely naturalised. It is a 

 native of Africa, and probably originated here from the Bot. Gardens. 



[7". Hawtaynea7ta, Wall., is given for Ceylon on the authority of a 

 specimen from Mrs. Walker in Herb. Kew. It was probably from S. India, 

 ■or perhaps was cultivated here.] 



[T. coccinea^ Wall., is a plant of the E. Himalaya, &c. It was sent 

 from Ceylon by Macrae, but the specimens were from the Botanic 

 Gardens.] 



2. EX.VTRARZA, VaJil. 



Perennial herb, 1. alt., subradical, fl. small, in dense spikes 

 terminating radical scapes, bracts ovate, imbricate, bractlets 

 linear ; sep. 5, very small, linear, slightly connate below, one 

 broader and two narrower than other two ; cor. -tube longer 

 than Sep., limb 2-lipped, upper lip notched, lower lip broad, 

 3-lobed ; stam. 2, anth.-cells slightly spurred at base ; stami- 

 nodes 2, short ; ovules 10 in each cell, superposed in 2 rows, 

 stigma large, slightly bilobed ; capsule ovoid, acute ; seeds 

 minute, papillose, without retinacula. — Sp. 3 or 4 ; i in FL B. 

 hid. 



E. crenata, Vahl, Eniim. 106 (1805). 



Moon Cat. 3. Thw. Enum. 224. C. P. 240. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 394. Roxb. PI. Corom. t. 127 {Jttsticia acaidis). 



Rootstock short, erect, occasionally branched, 1. alt, 

 mostly radical, erect or spreading on ground, 2-5 in., spathu- 

 late-oval or -oblong, tapering below, obtuse, nearly entire or 

 shallowly crenate, often runcinately lobed in lower part, 

 glabrous above, pilose on the veins and pale or silvery 

 beneath, petiole rather long, hairy; fl. sessile, crowded, scapes 

 usually exceeding 1., erect, stiff", slender, covered with ad- 

 pressed, imbricate, acuminate bracts, floral bracts longer than 

 Sep., ovate, sharply acuminate, glabrous but ciliate on margin, 

 bractlets linear, ciliate ; sep. rather longer than bractlets, 

 oblong-linear, glabrous, obtuse, thin ; lobes of lower lip of cor. 

 bifid ; valves of capsule recurved. 



Var. /3, lyrata, Vahl^ I. c. (sp.). Moon Cat. 3. 



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