2 26 LytkraceCB. [ Woodfordia. 



short ped., in threes at end of short scabrous peduncles; cal. 

 long-campanulate, quadrangular, the angles winged, segm. 4, 

 short; pet. 4, rotundate, spreading; stam. 8; capsule broadly 

 ovoid, enclosed in persistent 4-winged cal. 



Dry region; rather common. Jaffna (Moon); Dambulla; Matale; 

 near Kurunegala. Fl. March, April ; bright pink. 

 Also in S. India and Malaya. 

 Much the most showy of our species. 



2. WOODFORDIA. Salisb. 



A spreading shrub, 1. opp., fl. in copious axillary panicu- 

 late cymes ; cal.-tube widely tubular, oblique at mouth, segm. 

 6; pet. very small, 6, inserted between cal.-segm.; stam. 12, 

 inserted at base of cal.-tube; ov. superior, enclosed in but free 

 from the campanulate base of cal.-tube, 2-celled, with very 

 numerous ovules; fruit a membranous capsule included in 

 cal.-tube, with very numerous seeds. — Monotypic. 



W. floribunda, Salisb. Parad. Lond. t. 42 (1806). IVZalitta, S. 



Grislea tomentosa, Willd., Moon Cat. 31. Thw. Enum. 122. C. P. 1552. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 572. Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 31, Bot. Mag. t. 1906. 



A straggling shrub, with many long arching branches, 

 bark cinnamon-brown, shredding oft in fibres, shoots covered 

 with fine white pubescence, cylindrical; 1. sessile, 3-4 in., 

 narrowly ovate-lanceolate, cordate at base, tapering to acute 

 apex, entire, finely velvety on both sides, veins pellucid, pro- 

 minent beneath, the lat. ones uniting within the margin, paler 

 or whitish beneath, dotted with very minute orange glands; 

 fl. on pubescent ped., arranged in numerous short, divaricate, 

 cymose panicles from the axils of fallen 1. on the old wood, 

 and rarely from those of present 1.; cal. over \ in., with a small 

 campanulate base, and a long, slightly curved, somewhat in- 

 flated funnel-shaped tube, pubescent, red, segm. very short, 

 triangular, acute; pet. very small, about as long as cal.-segm.; 

 stam. declinate, much exserted, persistent; capsule enclosed 

 in persistent cal.-tube which becomes vertically split, about 

 I in., pericarp thin, membranous, irregularly dehiscent; seeds 

 very numerous, oblong-wedge-shaped, brown, smooth. 



Open sunny places in the lower montane zone; rare. Maturata; Uva 

 patanas locally abundant, as on the Badulla road about Wilson's bungalow, 

 Bandarawella, &c, but scarcely in the Central Prov. mountains. Fl. 

 March, April ; bright brick-red. 



* In honour of E. J. A. Woodford, Esq., a great cultivator of rare 

 plants in London in the early part of this century. 



