354 Verbenacece. [G me Una. 



A very variable plant, and perhaps more than one species is included 

 here. The ordinary Ceylon form has small long-stalked leaves, not 

 cordate at the base, usually quite smooth on both surfaces when mature, 

 and drying more or less black. A form from Uma-oya has a fine dense 

 pubescence on both surfaces of the leaves, which dry green, and the 

 flowers are white. Another form has the young 1. with simple villous 

 hair, but the adult ones quite glabrous; this also does not turn black in 

 drying. 



The plant has the strong fetid smell which is so much liked by the 

 natives, and the leaves are used in the Northern Prov. in making 'choti' 

 soup, and more rarely for flavouring curries, and are considered a 

 stomachic and tonic. 



Clarke in Fl, B. Ind. refers C. P. 2893 to P. tomentosa as var. deter- 

 gibilis. I am unable to follow him in this. The hairs on the young 

 leaves are simple, not stellate. One sheet of this number, however (from 

 Kalutara), is different from the rest in its larger leaves, with more and 

 deciduous pubescence, and drying black, and it may be to this that he 

 refers. I believe this form to be always cultivated in Ceylon. 



7. *P. procumbens, Moon Cat. 45 (1824). Blullai, T. 

 Wall. Cat. n. 1780. Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. 636. Thw. Enum. 243. 

 C. P. 325. 



Fl. B. Ind. iv. 580. 



A small undershrub, branches nearly cylindrical, thickened 

 at the nodes, bark yellowish-white, smooth, young parts finely 

 pubescent ; 1. articulated and readily detached, 2-4 in., ov^ate- 

 oblong, obtuse or rounded at base, subacute, undulate, usually 

 very coarsely serrate-dentate, glabrous when mature, slightly 

 pubescent on veins beneath when young, petiole \-\\ in.; fl. 

 on slender ped., small, dense, rounded, much branched ; cal. 

 campanulate, enlarged in fruit, nearly glabrous, segm. very 

 shallow, obtuse; cor. with a few hairs in throat, lobes nearly 

 equal ; stam. nearly equal ; drupe \ in., obovate-ovoid, tuber- 

 culate, stone thin, 4-seeded. 



Low country in dry region ; rare in a wild state. Moon's locality is 

 Uva. The C. P. specimens are from Pelmadulla (Gardner) and Balangoda 

 (Thwaites), and are in flower and fruit. Fl. Y€o. and Sept. 



Endemic (.''). 



This I take to be the small shrub frequently cultivated in native 

 gardens, especially in the dry region, as a curry plant, but I have never 

 seen it flowering nor met with it wild ; yet it seems to be known only 

 from Ceylon. 



8. GIVIEX.INA, L. 

 Trees or shrubs, 1. opp., entire, fl. large, in terminal 

 panicles; cal. cup-shaped, 4- or 5-toothed; cor. funnel-shaped, 

 ventricose in upper part, lobes 4 or 5, the lowest one largest, 

 and forming a projecting lower lip ; stam. 4, didynamous, 

 slightly cxserted, anth.-cclls distinct, pendulous; ov. 4-celled, 



