THE 



ealmtta Journal 



OF 



NATURAL HISTORY 



Contributions towards a Flora of Ceylon. By George Gard- 

 ner, Surgeon, F. L. S., Member of the Glasgow Philoso- 

 phical Society, Corresponding Member of the Royal Bota- 

 nical Society of Ratisbon, of the Horticultural Society of 

 London, of the Natural History Society of Mauritius, and 

 Superintendent of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Ceylon. 



ORD. NAT. TERNSTROMIACEJE. 



Previous to my arrival in Ceylon only three species of this 

 natural order had been made known to Botanists as natives 

 of the Island, viz. Eurya Ceylanica, R.W., Cleyera lasiope- 

 tala, R.W., which I now refer to Eurya, and Gordonia Cey- 

 lanica, R.W. Since then I have added seven additional 

 ones, all of them new, with the exception of one, Cleyera 

 gymnanthera, W. & A., which is likewise a native of the 

 Neilgherry mountains, and the only one of the Ceylon species 

 which ranges beyond the limits of the Island. One of my 

 new species, forming a new genus, was recently published 

 in this Journal under the name of Carria speciosa, Gardn. 

 Moon, in his Catalogue of Ceylon plants, enumerates, under 

 the name of Cistus lobatus, Cochlospermum Gossypinum DC. 



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