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1. p. purpurascens, Thw. Eman. 242 (1861). [Plate LXXIL] 

 C. P. 2698. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 574. 



A large woody climber, bark smooth, grey, branches 

 cylindrical, 1. 3-6 in., oval-oblong, rounded or subcordate at 

 base, suddenly and shortly acuminate, obtuse, entire, glabrous 

 on both sides, finely reticulate beneath, petiole f-i in., fl. very 

 small, numerous, on very short ped., cymes rather dense, 

 much and divaricately branched, puberulous, purplish, stalked, 

 axillary and terminal, bracts very small, caducous; cal. very 

 small, truncate; cor. with a dense tuft of white woolly hair in 

 throat, lobes nearly equal, obtuse, reflexed; fil. equal; fruit 

 not seen. 



Moist low country below 1500 ft.; very rare. Kitulgala ; Ambaga- 

 muwa; near Badamuwa and Nillowe, S. Prov. Fl. Feb., March; dull 

 brownish-purple. 



Endemic ? (perhaps in S. India). 



A beautiful plant ; the dense panicles of small flowers are sweet- 

 scented, and the young leaves delicately reticulated with purplish veins. 



2. P. corymbosa^ Rottl. in Neue Schr. Ges. Nat. Freunde Berlin, 

 iv. 187 (1803). 



P. cordifolia, Thw. Enum. 243 (non Roxb.). C. P. 193. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iv. 573. Wight, Ic. t. 1483 {P. cordifolia). 



A shrub, branches numerous, slender, virgate, pubescent; 

 1. 2-3I in., ovate, rounded or cordate at base, acuminate, 

 acute, entire, glabrous or pubescent on both sides, or pubescent 

 or woolly beneath only, very finely reticulate, petiole \-\ in.; 

 fl. on short ped., cymes several, small, close, opp., together 

 forming a sm.all terminal flat-topped infl., bracts very small, 

 filiform ; cal. oblong-ovoid, glabrous, distinctly 2-lipped, lips 

 rounded, entire or the lower one very faintly 3-lobed, 

 enlarged in fruit ; cor. very hairy and closed at mouth, upper 

 lip hooded, entire, lower lip 3-lobed, lobes rounded, concave, 

 the 2 lat. ones reflexed and the middle one cupped and pro- 

 jecting much beyond the rest; drupe over \ in., irregularly 



