1 4 EuphorbiacecE. \ActepMla, 



Low country in both regions, up to 2000 ft. ; rather rare. Dambulla; 

 Ritigala ; Harogama ; Tlanguranketa ; Yattiantota. Var. /3, Pasdun 

 Korale. Fl. April ; pale green. 



Endemic. 



Very variable in the size of the leaves. 



6. C. fcmigrineus, Muell. Arg. I. c. 507 (1866). 

 Amanoa ferrugtfiea, Thw. Enum. 280. C. P. 2407. 

 Fl. B. Ind. V. 280. 



A small tree; bark dark brown; twigs numerous ; young 

 parts rusty-pubescent; 1. 3-5 in., lanceolate, acuminate, acute, 

 on short petioles, stiff, pale, and with rather prominent veins 

 beneath; fl.-clusters sometimes on short peduncles; cal. 

 rusty-pubescent, segm. oval-oblong, subacute; pet. very small, 

 bifid; capsule h in, broad, depressed, shortly stalked, strongly 

 3-lobed, rusty-tomentose. 



Moist low country, to 3000 ft. Ambagamuwa ; Hantane. Fl. March. 

 Endemic. 



5. ACTEPKZZiA, Bl. 



A tree; 1. entire, with minute stip. ; fl. monoecious or 

 dioecious, in small clusters, dichlamydeous; cal.-segm. 5, 

 imbricate; pet. 5, small; male fl. : — disk prominent, fleshy; 

 stam. 5, fil. connate below in a stout column ; pistillode 

 columnar, with 3 spreading arms ; fem. fl. : — disk flattened, 

 expanded, lobed; ov. 3-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell; 

 styles 3, short, bifid; fr. a rather large dry woody capsule, 

 3-celled, 3-valved ; seeds usually 3, endosperm o, cotyledons 

 fleshy, unequal, folded, radicle very short. — Sp. about 10; 

 2 in Fl. B. Ind. 



A. nellgrberrensls, IVight, Ic. v. 2, 29 (1852). 



Saira zcylanica, Baill. Et. Euphorb. 571. A. zejlanica, Muell. Arg. 

 I.e. 221. 



Thw. Enum. 280. C. P. 2532, 3430, 3431. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 283 {A. exceba). Wight, Ic. t. 1910. Bedd. For. Man. 

 t. xxiii. f. 3 {A. cxcelsa). 



A small tree; bark greyish-brown, lenticellate, marked 

 with leaf-scars; young parts glabrous; 1. very variable, 210 

 in., oblong-lanceolate linear-oblong or broadly oval, obtuse 

 subacute or caudate-acuminate, tapering to base, on longish 

 petioles, glabrous; stip. deciduous; fl. small, male on short 

 ped., fem. on ped. \ inch long and thickened upwards, in small 

 axillary clusters ; bracts short, hairy ; male fl. : — cal.-segm. 

 broadly oval, obtuse; pet. wedge-shaped, often incised or 



