Pavetta.] Rtibiacece. 351 



compressed, glabrous ; 1. rather crowded, 4-7 in., linear or 

 lanceolate-linear, much tapering to either end, subacute, 

 often somewhat undulate, glabrous, deep green and polished 

 above, paler beneath, with similar warts to P. indica, stip. 

 connate into a tube, with a terminal bristle, usually splitting 

 down one side, subpersistent, fl. on short ped., cymes corym- 

 bose, rather lax, axillary or terminal ; cal. glabrous, segm. 

 distant, linear-lanceolate, acute, rather shorter than ov. ; cor.- 

 tube f— I in., lobes linear-oblong, obtuse, more than half as 

 long as tube ; anth. very long, linear ; style rather stout, 

 tapering to very slightly fusiform stigma, exserted for i|— 2 

 in.; fruit \ in., capped with cal.-limb, sub-didymous, broader 

 than long, greenish-purple. 



Moist low country by rivers, rather rare. About Ratnapura ; by the 

 Gindura near Wattagalle. Fl. March, April ; cream-coloured or pale 

 lemon-yellow. 



Endemic. 



Considered a variety of P. hispidida in Fl. B. Ind. 



4. P. Gleniei, Thw. in Fl. B. Ind. iii. 152 (1880). Vetpavad- 

 dai, T. 



P. tomentosa, Thw. Enum. 156 (non Sm.). C. P. 2815. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 152. 



A large shrub, bark pale cinnamon-brown, smooth, twigs 

 compressed, pubescent ; 1. 2-4 in., oblong-oval or oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute at base and apex, pubescent on both sides, 

 densely so beneath, with scattered warts, venation pellucid, 

 petiole about \ in., stip. slightly connate, triangular, acute ; fl. 

 small, in lax, trichotomous, hairy, axillary cymes shorter than 

 I. ; cal. -segm. linear, fully twice as long as ov., hairy, persistent ; 

 cor.-tube about \ in., lobes narrowly oblong, obtuse, more than 

 half as long as tube ; style exserted for about \ in., stigma 

 slightly clavate, pubescent; fruit small, \ in., nearly globose, 

 crowned with long erect cal.-segm., hairy. 



Dry region; common. Puttalam; Trincomalie ; Batticaloa; N. Prov.; 

 Anuradhapura ; Dambulla; Doluwa Kande, near Kurunegala. Fl. Nov.- 

 March ; white. 



Endemic. 



This common dry-country plant is very constant. I have not found 

 the glabrous form recorded in Fl. B. Ind. 



5, P. involuciata, Thw. Enum. 156 (1859). 



428. 

 FL B. ImJ. iii. 152. Bedd. Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 100, and Fl. Sylv. Anal, 

 t. 29. 



A shrub, 10-12 ft. high, branchlets thickened al nodes with 

 prominent I. -sears, twigs much compressed, glabrous; I. 3 -4.4 



