Laurembergia. | Haloragee. 107 
S. indica var. minor Thw. Enum. S. zeylanica var. minor Clarke in 
Pe lerity Ind. 11, p:-43%- 
Wattakellie. 
Endemic. 
L. BREVIPES Schindl. 1. c. p. 67. 
Wight 1090, 940 pp. (no locality) may be from Ceylon. 
4. L. zeylanica Schindl. |. c. p. 68. Serpicula zeylanica Arn. ex 
Clarke in Fl. Brit. Ind. II, p. 431 (1878). S. indica Thw. Enum. 
p. 126 (1859) pp. 
Creeping herb; stem up to 1 ft. long; branches erect or 
suberect, up to 7 in. high. Lower leaves deciduous; upper 
leaves apparently whorled, sessile, linear-oblong, entire or 
asymmetrically 1-2-toothed with the teeth narrowly trian- 
gular; leaves acute, up to 4 in. long, suberect, glabrous, 
minutely rugulose on the under surface. Flowers mone- 
cious, in 3-flowered, axillary dichasia; terminal flowers male, 
pedicellate; pedicels about 0-4 in. long, glabrous; calyx-tube 
rugose; cal.-lobes 4, ovate, acuminate, rounded at the apex, 
glabrous; petals 4, broadly linear, glabrous; apex acute, 
hooked; stamens 8; styles 4, subcylindric, usually minutely 
capitate; female flowers sessile or subsessile; calyx-tube 
rounded-urceolate, densely granular, 8-nerved; ovary unilocu- 
lar, 4-ovuled; styles 4, with capitate, filiform-papillose stig- 
mas; petals and stamens wanting. Fruit 1-seeded, 8-costate, 
urceolate. 
Upper montane zone; very rare. Adam’s Peak where it is abundant 
near the uppermost cone. Kunadiyaparavita (F. Lewis). 
Endemic. 
L.—RHIZOPHORACE/E. 
Page 150.— 
Add to key: 
Pet: 5: 
Stamens 10-12; ovary 3-celled . : : : 23 Caaiors:, 
Stamens numerous; ovary 1-celled . é : : Kandelia. 
Page 151.—For Rhizophora Candelaria DC. read: 
R. apiculata Blume Enum. PI. Jav. I, p. 91 (1827). R. Cande- 
laria DC. Prodr. III, p. 32 (1828). 
The Index Kewensis gives R. Candelaria as published in Vol. I, of 
De Candolle’s Prodromus. 
Page 153.—For Ceriops Candolleana Arn. read: 
1. ©. Tagal C. Rob. in Phil. Journ. Sc. Bot. III, p. 306 (1908). 
Rhizophora Tagal Perr. in Mem. Soc. Linn. Par. III, p. 138 (1824). 
Ceriops Candolleana Arn. in Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. I, p. 364 (1838). 
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