Contributions towards a Flora of Ceylon. 13 



retusis quintuplinerviis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis 1-3 

 florist floribus octandris, antheris basi o-tuberculatis. 



Hab. — On trees in forests between Newra Ellia and the 

 Horton Plains, at an elevation of about 6 ? 000 feet. Flowers 

 in February. 



Descr. — Epiphytal, dichotomously branched, glabrous. Branches 

 round, covered with ash-coloured bark. Leaves sessile, opposite, 

 elliptical-oblong, narrowed towards the base, obtuse, and slightly 

 retuse at the apex, 5-nerved, the three middle ones united to about 

 half an inch above the base, nerves prominent beneath, dark-green 

 above, pale beneath, 3-4 inches long, 15-23 lines broad. Peduncles 

 axillary, solitary, but only appearing where the leaves have fallen off, 

 3-4 lines long, 1-3 flowered, with two small acute bracts at the apex. 

 Pedicels about 8 lines long, articulated in the middle, with two small, 

 subulate, reflexed, bracts at the articulation, of a purplish-crimson 

 colour, the upper half rugose, and thickened towards the apex. 

 Tube of the calyx adherent, obovate, glabrous : limb cup-shaped, 

 about 4-dentate. Petals 4, subcampanulate, conniving at the apex, 

 fleshy, broadly obovate, obliquely emarginate, or somewhat truncated, 

 upper half of a transparent white, the lower of a brilliant lake colour, 

 running into each other, 6 lines long, and about 6 lines broad. Sta- 

 mens 8, inserted along with the petals on the top of the tube of the 

 calyx : filaments filiform, erect, white : anthers linear, attached by 

 their base, where they are tritubercular, 2-celled, the cells opening by 

 a single pore, slightly exserted, of a yellowish-red colour. Ovary 

 inferior, 4-celled. Ovides numerous, anatropous, attached to axillary, 

 fleshy placentae. Style filiform, exserted. Stigma simple. Fruit 

 subglobose, crowned by the persistent limb of the calyx, of a deep 

 purple colour, about 4 lines long. 



Medinilla maculata, Gardn. 



M. ramulis compresso-quadrangularibus, angulis undu- 

 lato-alatis, foliis oppositis brevissime petiolatis ellipticis vel 



