Contributions towards a Flora of Ceylon. 4J5 



about 3 lines long. Umbels terminal, sessile, 2-3 flowered. Pedi- 

 cels slender, glabrous, about 4 lines long. Calyx free, deeply 5 -parted, 

 lobes linear, obtuse, about 3 lines long. Corolla hypogynous, gamo- 

 petalous, infundibuliform, curved, 12-15 lines long, covered exter- 

 nally with short glandular hairs, of a scarlet colour. Limb somewhat 

 spreading, irregularly 5- cleft, lobes rounded ciliated with short gland- 

 bearing hairs, the two upper ones smaller than the others, all of a 

 greenish colour with irregular atrasanguineous stripes. Stamens 5, 

 four only of which bear anthers. Filaments complanate, glandularly 

 pubescent, the fertile ones exserted, the barren one included. An- 

 thers oblong, 2-celled, cohering in pairs. Ovary free, surrounded at 

 the base by a cyathiform crenulated disk, siliquose, attenuated at the 

 base, 1 -celled, with two slightly protruded parietal placentae, each 

 consisting of two subrevolute ovuliferous laminae. Ovules nume- 

 rous. Style filiform, exserted, about as long as the stamens, glabrous. 

 Stigma entire, dilated, concave. Capsule siliquose, cylindrical, straight, 

 about eight inches long, 1 -celled, 2-valved, with a loculicidal dehis- 

 cence. Seeds numerous, attached to the broad lamellae which form 

 the placentae on the middle of each valve, pendulous, oblong, with a 

 single long white hair at each extremity. Testa brown, rugose. 



Obs. — The species to which this one is most closely rela- 

 ted, is J&. Perrattetii, Alph. DC, from the Neilgherries, 

 where I collected it in fruit, in February 1845, along with 

 Dr. Wight. From a comparison of specimens, I find them 

 to differ in the following particulars : The Ceylon species has 

 the leaves broader and more acute at the base ; the umbels 

 are rarely more than 2-flowered, while in the Neilgherry 

 one they vary from 3-5 ; the corolla of the Neilgherry plant 

 is glabrous, while the Ceylon one is glandularly pubescent ; 

 the capsule of the Neilgherry species is only three inches 

 long, while in the other it is eight. 



DIDYMOCARPUS LONGIPETIOLATA, Gardn. 



D. tomentosa, caule prostrato radicante, foliis alternis, 

 longipetiolatis, orbiculato-ovatis, basi cordatis obtusis cre- 



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