14 Contributions towards a Flora of Ceylon. 



ovato-ellipticis subcordatis apice obtusis emarginatis obscure 

 crenatis triplinerviis, pedunculis axillaribus 1-3-floris, flori- 

 bus parvis octandris, antheris basi 3-calcaratis. 



Hab. — On trees on Ettapolla rock, in the Matele district, 

 at an elevation of about 4,000 feet. Flowers in December. 



Descr. — An epiphytal shrub, about 2 feet high, very much branch- 

 ed. Stems climbing, rooting, very thick and fleshy towards the 

 base. Branchlets rather compressed, subquadrangular, the angles 

 with membraneous undulated margins, glabrous, of a dark-purple 

 colour. Leaves opposite, very shortly petiolate, elliptical, or obovate- 

 elliptical, subcordate at the base, obtuse and emarginate at the apex, 

 broadly and obscurely crenate, 3-nerved, the lateral nerves not reach- 

 ing to the apex, rather fleshy, glabrous, of a dark-green colour, with 

 scattered purplish spots, 10-12 lines long, 6-8 lines broad. Pedun- 

 cles 3-4 lines long, 1-3 flowered, round, glabrous, of a reddish colour. 

 Pedicels about as long as the peduncles. Flowers small. Tube of 

 the calyx obpyriform, round, glabrous, of a greenish-red colour : 

 limb cup-shaped, obscurely 4-toothed. Petals 4, imbricated, ob- 

 liquely obovate, slightly maronate, of a pale rose-colour, about 3 lines 

 long. Stamens 8, equal : filaments round, white, glabrous : anthers 

 subulate, somewhat triangular, each of the angles shortly calcarate at 

 the base, 2-celled, the cells opening by a single pore, whitish, the 

 spurs yellowish. Ovary 4-celled. Ovules numerous, attached to 

 axile placentse. Style erect, subulate : stigma small, subcapitate. 

 Berry small subglobose, crowned with the persistent limb of the 

 calyx. 



ORD. NAT. UMBELLIFER^E, 



Pencedanum (eupbncedanum) ceylanicum, Gardn. 



P. caule tereti ramoso fistuloso, foliis radicalibus quinqueis 



tripartitis glaucis, laciniis linearibus acuminatis interiusculis 



vel distanter grosse, inciso-serratis, involucro nullo, umbellfle 



radiis 10, involucello oligophyllo, foliolis setaceis, fructibus 



