PassifloracecB. 239 



with 4 clusters of ovules pendulous from near top, styles 4, 



long ; fruit capsular. — Sp. 30 ; 1 1 in Fl. B. hid. 



Sometimes regarded as a separate order, and often placed near 

 Chailletiacece. 



H, zeylanicum, Benth. in Joum. Linn. Soc. iv. 35 (i860). Liyan, 

 liiyangu, S. 



Blackwellia zeylanica, Gardn. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vii. 452. 

 Thw. Enum. 79, 410. C. P. 388. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 597. Wight, Ic. t. 185 1 (B. tetrandra). Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 t. 210. 



A very large tree, with a straight trunk, bark white, rather 

 rough, breaking off in irregular pieces; 1. 2|~5 in., oval, 

 narrowed to base, shortly acuminate, acute, serrate-crenate, 

 glabrous and shining on both sides, rather thick, veins some- 

 what prominent and purplish-red beneath, petiole very short; 

 fl. very numerous, articulated on short ped., closely arranged 

 in numerous dense corymbose clusters, on a long, narrow, 

 interrupted pendulous panicle, 6-9 in. long; cal.-tube glabrous, 

 segm. oblong, obtuse, pubescent ; pet. spathulate-oblong, ob- 

 tuse, twice as long as cal.-segm., pubescent, ciliate; stam. 

 longer than pet.; fruit not seen. 



Moist low country to 3000 ft.; rather common. Fl. March-June; 

 greenish-white. 



Also in Malabar. 



The young leaves are a fine crimson colour. In both Wight's and 

 Beddome's figures the panicles are erroneously represented as erect. The 

 cal.-segm. and pet. are precisely alike except in size. I have never been 

 able to find a fruit, nor is it described (in this or anyof the Indian species) 

 in the books I have consulted. 



Wood pale brown, the heart-wood darker, heavy, very hard and close- 

 grained, durable. 



Turnera ulmifolia, L. (Order Tiimeracece), a West Indian and Trop 

 American species, is a very common weed of roadsides and waste ground 

 about Colombo and other places in the low country. The flowers are 

 bright yellow, and the leaves have a musky odour. There is a figure in 

 Bot. Mag. t. 281. 



LVIL— PASSIFLORACE^. 



PERENNIAL herbs climbing by tendrils of the inflor. ; fl. 

 regular, unisexual, dicecious, in axillary cymes ; male fl. : — 

 cal. campanulate, segm. 5, imbricate; pet. 5, distant, included 

 in cal.-tube; disk (corona; a row of white cilia arising from 

 base of cal.-tube, and 5 erect glands opp. segm.; stam. 5, peri- 



