490 Contributions towards a Flora of Ceylon. 



Hab. — In moist shady places near Rambodde, associated 

 with Klugia Ceylanica, Alph. DC. Fl. in September. 



Descr. — Annual erect, glabrous. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 

 ovate-oblong, sub-dimidiate, unequal at the base, acuminate, entire, 

 green above, pale beneath, pennivenous, veins about 20 on the large 

 side, 5-7 inches long, and from 2^-3 broad. Racemes opposite the 

 leaves, glabrous, floriferous at the apex. Flowers secund, about 20, 

 blue. Pedicels about 2 lines long, each with a single subulate bract 

 at its base. Calyx free, persistent, glabrous, loosely tubular, 5- 

 angled, the upper angle with a deep wing-like crest on its lower 

 half, the others wingless. Limb about equally 5-cleft, the lobes 

 erect, acute, with a glandular tip. Corolla hypogynous, gamo- 

 petalous. Tube cylindrical, white, about 4 lines long, with the throat 

 closed. Limb bilabiate, the upper lip truncate, reflexed about 1J 

 lines long, lower lip broadly elliptical, 10-12 lines long, by about 9 

 broad, with two elliptical concavities at the base, of a deep blue 

 colour, but with a blotch of yellow immediately above the concavi- 

 ties. Stamens 4, didynamous : filaments filiform, reaching to the 

 base of the upper lip of the corolla. Anthers all perfect, 2- celled, 

 glabrous, cohering in a mass. Hypogynous gland entire, of a cup- 

 shape, scarcely a line deep. Ovary free, ovate, glabrous, 1 -cel- 

 led, with 2 parietal placentae, each of two divaricate, ovuliferous la- 

 minae. Style filiform, glabrous, persistent. Stigma dimidiately or- 

 bicular. Capsule included within the calyx, ovate, 1 -celled, 2-valved, 

 with a loculicidal dehiscence, the valves bearing the placentae along 

 their middle. Seeds numerous, oblong, pendulous : testa brown, 

 reticulated. 



Obser. — This species, which is nearly related to the last, 

 is easily distinguished by being glabrous, in having more 

 membranous leaves, by only the upper angle of the calyx 

 being winged, by the acute, not acuminate, calycine segments, 

 and by the smaller flowers. One of the capsules which I 

 examined was 3-valved, all of which were placentiferous. 



KLUGIA CEYLANICA, Alph. DC. 

 K. stellato-piloso-pubescens, calyce 5-angulato, angulis 

 aequaliter alatis. 



