Hydrobryum. ] Podostemonacee. 245 
1-2 mm., globular or ellipsoidal, shallowly and broadly 8- 
ribbed, the ribs often confluent below the apex of the capsule. 
Fruit anisolobous, with ribs on persistent valves decurrent 
into pedicel, sometimes with an open space between them. 
Var. kelense Willis |. c. p. 245. Podostemon kelensis Willis, in 
Trim. Fl. Ceyl. V, p. 386 (1900). 
Pedicel 1-3 mm. Capsule 1-2 mm. Ribs clearly marked, 
confluent below apex. Stamens as long as gynecium. 
Kehel-ganga, Dikoya. : 
Also in Southern and Eastern India, our variety endemic. This is 
represented only by a painting in Herb. Perad. 
5. FARMERIA Willis. 
Primary axis small, non-floriferous. Thallus of phylo- 
genetic root nature, closely attached to the rock by hairs and 
occasional haptera, narrow ribbon or thread-like, flattened, 
endogenously branched in acropetal succession right and left, 
the branches appearing rather far back upon the thalli on 
the anterior side of the secondary shoots. Secondary shoots 
as in Hydrobryum, most ultimately floriferous. Bracts 
prostrate, thicker on upper side, usually about 6, scaly with 
deciduous tips. Spathe as in Hydrobryum, splitting on upper 
side. Flower on opening of spathe enclosed, more or less 
erect, sessile or (?) slightly stalked. Stamens 1 (? more). 
Pollen didymous. Ovary more or less globose, with 
thickened placenta towards the upper end, bearing two or 
four ovules on the under side; lower loculus- more or less 
abortive. Stigmas large, subulate. Fruit small, the upper 
lobe larger, in F. metzgerioides 2-seeded, sessile, indehiscent ; 
in F. indica 4-seeded, stalked, 8-10-ribbed, dehiscent. 
Page 419.—For Podostemon metzgerioides Trim. read: 
Farmeria metzgerioides Willis in Ann. Perad. I, pp. 247, 397 
tt. 25-28 (1902). Podostemon metzgerioides Trim. Fl. Ceyl. III, p. 419 
(1895). 
?Kelaniganga at Kitulgala; Guru-oya; Pasdun Korale. 
Page 421.—For Bragantia Lour. read: 
1. APAMA Lamk. 
For Bragantia Wallichi Br. read: 
Apama siliquosa Lamk. Encycl. I, p. 91 (1783). Bragantia 
Wallichtti R.. Br. in Wall. Cat. no. 7415 (1828); Duchart. in DC. 
Prodr. XV, I, p. 430 (1864). Visakumba, S. Alpam, T. 
A supposed remedy for snake bite. 
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