Sirohilanthes?\ Acailtliacece. 3 1 I 



\-\\ in., hispid; fl. large, heads i-i| in., ovoid, on stout 

 drooping or deflexed, shaggy, axillary peduncles \-\ in. long, 

 bracts much imbricate, large, ovate, acuminate, very acute, 

 somewhat conduplicate, falcately curved outwards, sparingly 

 hairy on surface but strongly ciliate with long white hair, 

 bractlets very small, linear, hairy ; sep. unequal, linear-oblong, 

 acute, shaggy with long hair, considerably enlarged in fruit ; 

 cor. glabrous, tube f-i in., straight, narrow and shortly 

 cylindrical at very base, rest widely campanulate, lobes rather 

 deep ; stam. 4, much exserted ; capsule f in., oblong, pointed ; 

 seeds glabrous, retinacula very large, not curved. 



Forests of montane zone, 4000-7000 ft.; rather common, gregarious. 

 Maturata; Kellebokka; Dimbula, abundant; Horton Plains. Fl. Oct., 

 I^ovember; quite white. 



Endemic. 



21. S. Hookeri, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 185 (1847). 

 Thvv. Enum. 227. C. P. 1999. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 449. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 262. 

 Stems 2-4 ft, stout, swollen above nodes, very bluntly 

 quadrangular, slightly hispid ; 1. 2|^-5 in., oval, acute at base, 

 shortly acuminate, subacute, serrate-dentate, scabrous with 

 prickly hair above and less so beneath, petiole ^-i in., hispid; 

 fl. very large, heads \\-2 in., dense, globose or broadly ovoid, 

 on short thick drooping axillary peduncles or short branches 

 usually bearing a pair of 1. (or bracts) a little below the head, 

 bracts very large, about i in., much overlapping, rotundate, 

 obtuse or subacute, entire or serrate, glabrous but usually 

 ciliate, thin, bractlets small, spathulate-linear, glabrous ; sep. 

 \ in., longer than bractlets, lanceolate, acute, ciliate, veined ; 

 cor.-tube short, campanulate, limb 2 in. diam., lobes broad, 

 rounded, crisped ; stam. exserted ; capsule not seen ; ' seeds 

 glabrous.' 



Upper montane zone, 5000-7000 ft.; rather rare, gregarious. Above 

 Ramboda; Hakgala; Horton Plains, abundant ; Ambawella. Fl. Sept.- 

 Feb.; pure white, with the tube yellowish and with a few narrow puiple 

 veins, bracts pale green. 



Endemic. 



Flowers much the largest in the genus, deeply cut, and with much 

 exserted stam. Inflor. has a faint pungent odour. 



22. S. calycinus, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 186 (1847). 



^'. coloratus, Nees, 1. c. (non And.). Thw. Enum. 227. C. P. 309. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 450. Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 209. 

 Stems 4-5 ft, stout, nearly cylindrical, tumid above nodes, 

 glabrous or slightly hairy in upper part ; 1. 3-7 in., oval, much 

 tapering at base, acuminate, subacute, shallowly dentate- 

 serrate, rather roughly hairy on both sides, petiole varying 



