482 Contributions towards a Flora of Ceylon. 



libus, trichotomis, lobis calycinis oblongo lanceolatis, acumi- 

 natis, glaberrimis, corolla glaberrima. 



Hab. — Common in moist shady places in forests on the 

 mountains of the Central Province. Fl. during the rains. 



Descr. — Suffruticose, 1-lf feet high, densely covered with white 

 adpressed hairs, branched. Branches round. Leaves opposite, pe- 

 tiolate, ovate, rounded or subcordate, and often a little unequal at 

 the base, acute or subacuminate, green above and adpressly pilose, 

 pale and sparingly pilose beneath, pennivenous, veins about 10 on 

 each side, exclusive of the petiole from 3^-4 inches long, and from 

 2-2f- broad. Petioles 8-15 lines long. Peduncles axillary, solitary, 

 about as long as the leaves, pilose -pubescent below, glabrous up- 

 wards, two to three times trichotomously divided, each division 

 with two lanceolate, acute bracts, about 3 lines long at its base. 

 Pedicels about 6 lines long, glabrous. Calyx free, deciduous, some- 

 what inflated, 5-parted, divided nearly to the base, lobes oblong- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, obscurely 3-nerved, about 6 lines 

 long and 2f broad, of a brownish purple colour. Corolla hypogynous, 

 gamo-petalous, glabrous, If inches long, tubular at the base, ventre- 

 cosely campanulate above, with two plicatures on its posterior inner 

 face, which close nearly round the style, of a pale purple colour, with 

 a broad yellow stripe internally, extending from the bottom of the 

 tube to the base of the middle lobe of the lower lip. Limb 5-lobed, 

 bilabiate, lobes rounded, obtuse, entire, the middle one of the lower 

 lip smaller than the others, all of a purple colour. Stamens 5, the 

 posterior one very rudimentary, the two lateral ones about half the 

 length of the fertile, villous, the two anterior ones fertile. Filaments 

 about 4 lines long, thickened and geniculate about the middle, 

 upper half with a few long villi internally. Anthers elliptical, 1 -celled, 

 cohering, very villous on their anterior margins. Ovary free, gla- 

 brous, seated in an annular fleshy disk, siliquose, 1 -celled, with two 

 parietal placentae formed by the introflexed margins of the carpels. 

 Style filiform, persistent, pubescent towards the apex. Stigma su- 

 borbicularly peltate. Capsule siliquose, curved, 3-4 inches long, 

 1 -celled, 2-valved, with a loculicidal dehiscence. Seeds numerous, 

 oblong, pendulous, small. Testa brown, pitted. 



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