Agrimonia.] RoSClCeCE. 1 4 1 



deciduous segm.; pet. o; stam. 4 or 2; carp. 1-3; ripe carp, 

 solitary, enclosed in hardened cal.-tube. — Sp. 20; 5 in Fl. B. 

 Ind., but no species is known from the Indian Peninsula. 



P. indicum, Gardn. in Cede. Joum. Nat. Hist. viii. 10 (1847). 

 Thw. Enum. 102. C. P. 2771. 

 FL B. Ind. ii. 363. 



An erect perennial herb, 2-3 ft, stems glabrous, striate ; 

 1. pinnate, rachis 3-6 in., glabrous, sheathing at base, lflts. 

 shortly stalked, about \ in -> broadly oval, with a few large 

 teeth, nearly glabrous ; head of fruit small, f in., globular, on 

 very long erect peduncle, bracts rounded ciliate, ripe carp, 

 enclosed in persistent cal.-tube which is about §■ in., trapezoid- 

 ovoid, hard, with 4 narrow wings. 



Montane zone ; very rare. This has apparently been twice gathered, 

 first on 'Adam's Peak, 1835,' by Mr. H. de Alwis, from whose specimens 

 in Hb. Perad. (now C. P. 2771) Gardner described the species ; and 

 afterwards, in 1839, by Sir J. A. Stewart Mackenzie,* Governor of Ceylon, 

 whose excellent specimens, without definite locality, are now in Hb. Kew. 

 Subsequent search for it has been vain. 



Endemic. 



There is some doubt as to the locality of these specimens, and I sus- 

 pect all are really from the same gathering. My material in Hb. Perad. 

 is very scanty, and I am unable to give a full description. 



Rosa. There is no wild species of Rose in Ceylon. 



6. AGBIKONIA, L. 



Erect perennial herb, 1. interruptedly imparipinnate, stip. 

 petiolar, fl. small, in spikelike racemes ; cal. persistent and 

 enlarged in fruit, tube turbinate, with 3 whorls of hooked spines 

 round the top, segm. 5 ; pet. 5 ; stam. usually 5 ; disk thick, 

 nearly closing mouth of cal.-tube ; carp. 2 at base of cal.-tube, 

 styles terminal; fruit of 2 (or 1) achenes enclosed in hardened 

 enlarged cal.-tube. — Sp. 8; 3 in Fl. B. Ind., but no species 

 in Peninsular India. 



A. zeylanica, Moon Cat. Ceyl. PL yj (1824). 



A. Eufiatorium, Thw. Enum. 102; Arn. Pug. 16. C. P. 2769. 



FL B. Ind. ii. 362. Wight, Ic. t. 224 (A. Eufiatorium) (bad). 



A perennial herb about 3 ft. high, stem erect, slightly 

 branched, villous with coarse shaggy hair; 1. numerous, the 

 radical ones often 8-10 in., the stem ones smaller and 

 gradually passing into bracts, rachis stout, villous-hairy, stip. 



* Printed as 'Sir J. G. McKenzic' in FL 15. Ind. 



