Excerpt from A Hand-Book to the Flora of Ceylon, Vol. 2: Containing Descriptions of All the Species of Flowering Plants, Indigenous to the Island, and Notes on Their History, Distribution, and Uses Racemes solitary seeds numerous. Stems prostrate or ascending, diffuse, herbaceous. Stip. 0. Fl. 1-4 in raceme. Pod globular 1. C. Biflora. Pod oblong 2. C. Prostrata. Pi. 4 - 20 in raceme. L. Linear-spathulate 9. C. Albida. L. Oval-oblong; raceme capitate. C. Nana. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.