■Cryptocoryne.} A racCCS . 347 



very slender, base narrowed into a petiole margined below 

 with a hyaline narrow sheath; spathe peduncled, with the tip 

 alone protruded above the ground, 2-3 in. long, tube narrow, 

 cylindric, about | in. long, edged and spotted with dark 

 purple, limb longer than the tube, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 greenish-purple; spadix very slender, anth. crowded in a 

 short cylindric column, crowned by the small conic appendage; 

 ov. in a whorl of 6-y (?), with large globose stigmas, surround- 

 ing an inner whorl of minute imperfect (.'') ones, with globose 

 stigmas. 



Wet places in dry region ; very rare. Near Grukamana Tank and 

 near Wawinna amongst grass. E. Prov., 1885 (Nevill). Fl. Nov. 



The specimens are quite insufficient for a satisfactory description. In 

 a note accompanying them Dr. Trimen writes: 'Near Hinguima and 

 Ekgalara, a mile from Yakkiniganna Hela, a few miles W. of Grukamana 

 Tank, and near Wawinna ; also in marshy soil. " Wagapul" native name. 

 Only tip of spathe protruded above ground. — Nov. 1885, H. Nevill.' 



If I am correct in describing the ovaries as in two whorls, the inner 

 of imperfect carpels, the plant is intermediate between Cryptocoryne and 

 Lageiiandra. I failed to detect the structure of the anth. in the only 

 specimen examined. — J. D. H. 



4. C. Walkeri, Schott in Bonplandza, v. 221 (1857). 



C. spiralis, Thw. Enum. 334 (non. Fisch.). 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 492. 



L. 2-4 in., oblong or oblong-lanceolate acute, membranous, 

 faintly crenulate, base cuneate or rounded, veins about 4 pairs 

 from below the middle of the costa, petiole 6 in., very slender; 

 spathe very shortly peduncled, 3 in. long, tube 2 in., narrow, 

 limb shorter than the tube, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 strongly twisted, glabrous, smooth ; spadix very slender ; 

 ov. 4-5, styles subincurved, stigmas small, globose ; syncarp 

 small, spherical ; seeds oblong, narrowed upwards from a 

 conical base, obtuse, angled, angles remotely warted. 



Ceylon, Walker in Herb. Kew. 



Only known by specimens from Walker in Herb. Kew. 



5. C. Beckettii, Thw. ex Trim, in Journ. Bot. xxiii. 269 (1885). 

 C. P. 3868. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 493. 



Rootstock slender, simple and branched, elongate, pale; 

 1. 2|-4 by i-i^ in., oblong, linear-oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, 

 obtuse or subacute, quite entire, membranous, base more or 

 less cordate, veins 3-5 pairs from below the middle of the 

 broad costa, petiole 4-8 in. ; spathe sessile, f in. long, tube 

 narrow, about twice as long as the small caudate blade. 



Dry and intermediate region, in chinks of rocks ; rare. Matale East 

 (Beckett); near Nilgala, Uva. Fl. Jan., Feb. 

 Endemic. 



