Lasianthus.] Rzibiacece. 365 



Moist low country up to 3000 ft.; rather rare. Sabaragamuwa Dist. fre- 

 quent ; Morowak Korale ; Hewesse ; below Adam's Peak. Fl. March ; white. 



Endemic. 



Occasionally, as in C. P. 3997, the stems and upper surface of the 

 leaves are glabrous, as was the case with the original specimen described 

 by Wight ; in the Hewesse specimens when living the hairs were a 

 brilliant pink in colour, giving the plant a very ornamental appearance. 



2. L. Thwaitesii, Hk.f. Fl. B. Bid. iii. 185 (1880). 

 Mephitidia tomentosa, Thw. Enum. 145. L. strigosus, Thw. Enum. 

 420 (part). C. P. 271 1. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 185. 



A shrub, branchlets slightly compressed when young, 

 densely tomentose with brown hair; 1. rather small, 2— 3 J in., 

 narrowly lanceolate, acute at base, tapering into long attenuate 

 acute apex, glabrous and shining above, tomentose-hairy 

 beneath, rather thick, lat. veins 5, much curved, prominent 

 beneath, petiole \ in., stip. pubescent; fl. solitary or few; cal. 

 hairy, segm. usually linear-lanceolate, as long as cor.-tube; 

 cor. hairy outside ; berry J in., crowned with cal. -segm., hairy, 

 black, pyrenes oblong, channelled down ventral side. 

 Var. /3, nitidus, Thw. in Fl. B. Bid. iii. 189. C. P. 3910. 



L. rather smaller, glabrous and shining on both surfaces, 

 or puberulous on veins beneath. 



Moist region at about 3000 ft. ; very rare. Only at Laxapanagala in 

 Ambagamuwa in 1853. Var. f3 more common; Adam's Peak; Hakgala. 

 Fl. Feb., March; white. 



Endemic. 



The Fl. B. Ind. refers var. (3 to the L. strigosus of that work, with 

 which it does not at all agree, but is connected with the present type 

 by pubescent forms. Many fl. are abortive. 



3. Zi. rhinophyllus, Thw. Enum. 420 (ii 

 Mephitidia rhinophyllus, Thw. Enum. 145 (by error rhisophyllus). 



C. P. 361. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 185 (L. rhizophyllus). 



A shrub, branchlets elongated, slender, compressed when 

 young, adpressed-pubescent; 1. rather small, 2-3 in., lanceolate, 

 acute at base, long-acuminate, acute, glabrous on both sides, 

 thin, lat. veins 5 or 6, oblique, delicate; fl. solitary or few; 

 cal. adpressed-hairy, segm. linear-lanceolate; fruit not seen. 



Moist region; very rare. Adam's Peak (Gardner); Kukul Korale. 

 Fl. June; white. 



Endemic. 



I have but scanty material for this, which is very near the last. 



4. Li. "Walker ianus, Wit^ht in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 512 



(1845). 



Mephitidia Watkrriana, Thw. Enum. 146. L. protractus, Thw. (part) 

 Enum. 420. C. P. 289 ^340). 



Fl. 15. Ind. iii. 186. 



