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NOTES. 
Water hyacinth. — In the Kadugannawa district the name 
“ Diya-kehel ” (water plantain) has been given to this 
recently introduced plant. “ Diya-kehel ” was included by 
Moon in his list of varieties of plantains, but, as far as ascertain- 
able, this name is not in use at the present day. — T. Fetch. 
Stachys arvensis. — The occurrence of Stachys arvensis at 
Nuwara Eliya was referred to by Thwaites in a letter to W. 
Ferguson, December 7, 1859 ; and was recorded in the preface 
to the “ Enumeratio Plantarum Zeylaniæ.” It was not 
m.entioned by Trimen in his “ Handbook to the Flora of 
Ceylon.’' In April, 1915, it was found to be comm.on at 
Nuwara Eliya on roadsides towards Pedro. — T. Fetch. 
Mimosa pudica L. — In “ Notes on Animal and Plant Life 
in the Vedda Country ” (Spolia Zeylanica, X., 119-165), Mr. 
F. Lewis records Mimosa pudica as occasional.” Exact 
localities are not stated, but the district traversed lies between 
Muppane, Panawa, and Kumuna. The record is of interest, 
in view of the gradual extension of this weed to the eastern 
parts of the Island. In 1908 the furthest point reached by 
it on the Lunugala-Batticaloa road was a few yards towards 
the east of Maha-oya. Apparently it has not yet (1916) 
arrived at Batticaloa. — T. Fetch. 
Agrimonia zeylanica Moon. — This endemic species is very 
near the common A. eupatorium of Europe, hvit, fide Trimen, 
is a sufficiently well-marked local variety to deserve a name. 
In fruit the spines of the calyx tube are red. For the purpose 
of comparison with the local species, seeds of A. eupatorium, 
{odorata) were collected in Norfolk, England, in August, 1911, 
and sown at Hakgala in December of the same year. The 
resulting plants developed healthy rosettes, somewhat stout 
and pulvinate, but they made no attempt to flower up to 
August, 1915. The experiment was brought to a conclusion 
by their death during my absence on leave in 1915-16. — T. 
Fetch. 
