Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c11.s1.81

c11.s1.81

It is interesting to follow some developments of the *pala-peti*; in extreme forms the Design and half-seen petal is omitted (Pl. XXXVII., 5, and Fig. 39, c), and finally we have only ornament a series of spathulate forms as in Fig. 39, B. There are, on the other hand, forms in which the half-seen petal is terminated by a little cross (Pls. XXXI; XXXII., 7), or even *Pala-peti* developed so as to be equally or more important than the fully-seen petal, resulting in a more conspicuous alternation (Pl. XXXII., 8; XL., 17); this might result in a ‘knop and flower’ type of ornament, but never seems quite to do so. Pl. XL., 17, shows the most extreme development, where the ‘dart’ has become a regular tree.