204 Melastomacea. \Sonerila. 



Upper montane zone. ' Nuwara Eliya, 1846' (Gardner). Fl. 'Jan.' 



Also in S. India. 



I do not know this species. The Kew specimens of C. P. 662, which 

 are those presumably referred to in Fl. B. Ind., have very large capsules. 

 Thw. afterwards merged C. P. 662 in C. P. 349 (S. zeylanica), and 

 Cogniaux quotes the latter number, and also C. P. 353 (S. affinis) in part 

 for S. Brunonis. 



Wight (111. 1. c.) colours the petals a bright light blue ! 



4. S. Arnottiana, Thw. Enum. 108 (1859). 



C. P. 2615. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 531. Bedd. Ic. Ind. Or. t. 300. 



Stem 1-2 ft., branched above, more or less glandular- 

 hairy; 1. if- 3 in., lanceolate, tapering to both ends, acute or 

 obtuse at apex, more or less unequal at base, finely spinous- 

 serrate, glabrous above, paler and with a few coarse hairs 

 on veins beneath, 3- or 5-nerved, petiole half as long as 1., 

 glandular-pilose ; racemes glandular-hairy, often forked ; cal- 

 tube glandular-hairy ; anth. short, pointed ; capsule short,, 

 strongly ribbed, asperous. 



Var. /3, tomentella, Trim. S. tomentella, Thw. Enum. 109.. 

 C. P. 2616. 



Stem shorter, clothed with short spreading hair, not glan- 

 dular ; 1. smaller, very unequal at base, almost entire, with a 

 few scattered hairs above, tomentose on the veins beneath ; 

 racemes and cal. not glandular but densely and finely hairy \ 

 anth. not pointed. 



Montane zone, 4000-7000 ft.; rather rare. Horton Plains; Bopata- 

 lawa ; Ambagamuwa ; Maskeliya. Var. j3, Agrawatte ; Ambagamuwa- 

 Fl. March and April; pale pink. 



Also in Anamallays, S. India (?). 



5. S. Wig-htiana, Am. in Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 307 (1836). 

 Cogn. 1. c. 495. C. P. 3907. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 532. 



Stems 1 ft. or more high, much branched, somewhat 

 flexuose, rough with coarse rufous bristly hair; 1. i-ij in., 

 oval, very unequal at base, acute or subacute, sharply serrate, 

 rough with scattered short bristly hairs on both sides, 5-nerved, 

 petiole about \ in., roughly hairy ; fl. rather large, f in., ped. 

 with strigose hair ; cal.-tube very hairy, segm. oval, acute ; 

 pet. long-clawed, very acute; anth. short, very blunt; capsule 

 \ in., strongly ribbed, scabrous. 



Var. j3, Hookeriana, Trim. S. Hookeriana, Arn. 1. c. 308. Thw. 

 Enum. 108. C. P. 173. 



Larger and semi-woody at base, stems more villose with 

 longer hair ; 1. less unequal at base, rounded or obtuse at 



