Contributions towards a Flora of Ceylon, 487 



as also with Loxonia itself, except in the less disparity of 

 the leaves. One of its most remarkable features is the con- 

 stant disagreement between the number of the divisions of 

 the calyx and corolla, the former being five, the latter four, 

 parted ; and I have found this to be constant in a number 

 of specimens from two different parts of the island. No 

 flowers which I have ever examined, are so well adapted for 

 the procuring of spiral vessels as those of this plant, the 

 calycine segments being made up of one entire mass of 

 them. They are also abundant in the corolla, but less so than 

 in the calyx, and in the filaments they do not exist at all. 



KLUGIA NOTONIANA, Alp, DC. 



K. caulibus, racemes, pedicelisque linea laterali villosa no- 

 tatis; calyce 5-angulato, angulo superiore basi alte alato — 

 cristato, caetris leviter et sequaliter alatis. 



Glossanthus malabaricus, Klein in Wall. Cat. n. 6394 ; 

 Benth. Scroph. hid. p. 57. 



Glossanthus notoniana, R. Br. in Hors. PL Jav. Rar. 

 p. 121. 



Klugia notoniana, Alph. D C. Prodr. 9. p. 276. 



Hab. — In moist shady places above Rambodde ? at an 

 elevation of about 5000 feet, associated with Impatiens sub- 

 cordata, Arn. Fl. July and September. 



Descr. — Annual, erect, 1-lJ feet high. Stems round, fleshy, 

 branched, villously pubescent on one side, particularly towards the 

 top, branched. Leaves alternate, petiolate, exstipulate, membrana- 

 ceous, entire or somewhat sinuate, minutely glandular- dentate, 

 ovate oblong, cordate and very unequal at the base, acuminate at 

 the apex, upper surface green, with small scattered adpressed hairs, 

 the under pale, glabrous, or with a few hairs on the veins, penni- 

 venous, veins close, and about 20 in the large side, 5-8 inches long, 

 by from 2-2^ inches broad. Petioles 1-2 inches long, villous on 

 the upper surface. Racemes opposite the leaves, simple elongated, 



