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REPRINT OF MEDICINAL PLANTS (INDIGENOUS AND EXOTIC) USED IN
CEYLON-PARTS I-V BY D.M.A JAYAWEERA (1981-1982)
NOTES ON PLANT NAMES TO USERS OF THIS REPRINT
Many of the names of plant taxa given in D.M.A. Jayaweera's "Medicinal Plants (Indigenous
and Exotic) Used in Ceylon" Parts 1-V (1981-1982), have been changed for taxonomic
and/or nomenclatural reasons and for the correction of misidentifications of certain plants
by the authors of early floras. Further the author citations and the abbreviations used to
indicate the names of authors also have to be given in a specific form. Some of the names
of plant families have been changed and a few genera have been transferred from one
family to another.
In these corrections lists the plant name as it is indicated in Jayaweera's publication is
given against the name now considered to be the correct one. This does not necessarily
mean that the name in Jayaweera's work is a synonym of the second name.
These corrections have been based primarily on "A Revised Handbook to the Flora of
Ceylon" Volumes I-XIV (1980-2000) Edited by Dassanayaka, M.D., Fosberg, F.R. and
Clayton, W.D. and on "A Check List of the Flowering Plants of Sri Lanka" by Senaratna,
L.K.. (2001). Reference has been made to several other publications to establish the correct
names, especially for the exotic plants. A list of the more important of these works is given
at the end of each corrections list
In the reference given against each name considered to be the correction, *'R" refers to the
"A Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon". For other references, the number indicates
the numeral against the name of the publication in the References, and this is followed by
the number of the volume, if any, and the page on which the name of the plant is given.
Lilani Kumudini Senaratna
The Open University of Sri Lanka
15 th
August 2005
CORRECTIONS LIST - PART II
PAGE CORRECTIONS Ref.
05 The genus Lobelia is now separated from CAMPANULACEAE and is placed
in the family LOBEL1ACEAE.
For Lobelia nicotianifolia Heyne ex Roem: read:
R4:166
Lobelia nicotianifolia Roth ex Roem. & Schult
R4:172
07 For CANNABINACEAE read:
CANNABACEAE.For Cannabis saliva Linn, read:
Cannabis sativa L. 10:226
09 For CAPPARIDACEAE read:
CAPPARACEAE.
For Capparis horrida Linn.f. read:
Capparis zeylanica L.
Chorrida L.f. is now considered to be the same as C.zeylanica L. of page 13.
In this page the author citation should be changed from "Linn." to "L."
R 10:23
R10:37