476 Contributions towards a Flora of Ceylon. 



natis, pedunculis axillaribus folio vix aequantibus 2-3-tricho- 

 tomis paucifloris pilosis, calycis 5-partiti lobis linearibus 

 obtusis deciduis. 



Hab. — Adam's Peak, found by Mrs. General Walker. 



Descr. — Herbaceous. Stem prostrate, rooting, tomentose. Leaves 

 alternate, on long petioles, or bicularly ovate, cordate at the base, 

 obtuse, crenate, obliquely pennivenous, veins about 7 on each side, 

 tomentose on both sides, paler on the under surface, about 3 inches 

 long, by as many broad. Petioles tomentose, 3-3^ inches long. Pe- 

 duncles axillary, solitary, nearly as long as the leaves, pilose, two or 

 three times trichotomously divided, the divisions bearing several small 

 linear pilose bracts at their base. Pedicels pilose, about 3 lines long. 

 Calyx free, persistent, deeply 5 -parted, lobes linear- subulate, ob- 

 tuse, pilose, about 2 lines long. Corolla hypogynous, gamo-petalous, 

 whitish, about 9 lines long, infundibuliform, a little constricted at the 

 throat, pilose externally. Limb 5 -cleft, bilabiate, upper lip 2-lobed, 

 lobes short, rounded, reflexed, lower lip 3-lobed, the lateral lobes 

 broadly obovate, divaricate, the intermediate one rounded, and much 

 smaller. Stamens 4, the anterior pair only fertile. Filaments glabrous. 

 Anthers reniform, glabrous, cohering, 1 -celled. Ovary free, seated 

 in a very small dentate annular disk, siliquose, pubescent, 1 -celled, 

 witli two protruded parietal placentae, each bearing two subrevolute 

 ovuliferous margins. Style 1, filiform, glabrous, persistent. Stigma 

 obliquely orbicular from the abortion of the upper lip. Capsule 

 siliquose, glabrous, terite, crowned with the persistent style, about 

 1£ inches long, 1 -celled, 2-valved, with a loculicidal dehiscence, the 

 valves bearing the placenta? along their middle. Seeds numerous, 

 oblong, pendulous. Testa brown, reticulated. 



Obser. — This plant I was at first inclined to consider the 

 Didymocarpus zeylanicus of Mr. Brown in the " Plantae 

 Javanicae Rariores," p. 119, but judging from the very short 

 character which he has there given, his plant differs from 

 this in two or three particulars. Thus, in it the leaves are 

 said to be dentate and longer than the petiole, while in this 



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