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BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AXD PRODUCTIONS. 



Ava. Pci;u. Tenasserim. 



Stemona. 



S. Griffithiaxa, Kz. 



A porennial erect herb, rhizome tliiek, hy])0{rteons, leaves ovate, 3-5 inches lon,2:, 

 on a petiole of equal lonsth. Flowers proenish-purple. Stamens 4. Filaments 

 broad, purple. Anthers yellow. Ovary 1-eelled. Ovules 6, linear-oblong, pendulous 

 capsules bivalved, 3-4 seeded. Seeds sulcately keeled, with a short white basal 

 rillus. 



This order embraces plants of great medicinal efficacy, and yielding the powerful 

 alkaloids rerafriiie, colc/iiciiie, sahadillinc. Coh/iiciim nufumnale, however, is the only 

 one which niaj- be deemed inipnrtaut in medicine, though many species are used both 

 in powder and infusion as vermifuges and insect destroyers. 



Order LILIACE^E. 



Flouurs hermaphrodite. Pcritinth inferior, petaloid sex-partite, biseriate. Stamens 

 6. Ovarii supeiior, with 3 several- or many-ovuled cells. Stule simple. Fruit cap- 

 sular. Albumen fleshy. Stem with a bulbous or fibrous-fascicled root. 



H YA CIXTniXIE.E. 

 Perianth ti/hxJar or G-partite. Stametis inserted on fie receptacle nr perlanth-tule. 

 Ornles avafropoiis or semi-anatropous. Fruit capsular. Seeds globose or augalar. Trstit 

 criistaceous, black. Radicle facing thehilum. Herbs with bulious or fihroas-Jascicled roots. 



.SciLLA, Linnaus. 



Perianth-segments 6, nearly equal, free or nearly so, spreading or forming a bcll- 

 shapeil or tubular flower. Stamens 6, inserted below the middle, or at the base of the 

 segments. Ovary with 1, 2 or several ovules in each cell. Stigma entire or nearly 

 so. Seeds few, black, oblong or globular. Bulbous herbs. Leaves radical, parallel 

 veined. Flowers pink or blue, in a simple raceme on a leafless scape. 



S. iNDicA, Roxb. (M.). 

 Pa daing-kyet-thwon. 



Allium, Linnmis. 



*A. SATivrii, L. (M.). 

 Kyet-tliwdn-hypu. Garlic. 

 *A. CEPA, L. (M.). 

 Kyet-thwon-ni. Onion. 

 *"A. roRRCM, L. (31.). 

 Tor-kyet-thwon. Leek. 

 *A. ASCALOXICUM, L. (M.). 



The Eschalotte, Shallot, or Onion of Askalon! 



Burma. 



Cultivated. 

 Cultivated. 

 Cultivated. 

 Cultivated. 



ORxrrnoGALUM. 



O. REVOLUTrji, Jacq. (31.). 

 O. CAUDATUlt, Ait. (M.). 



A 1.0 INI E.I-:. 

 Perennial herbs, sometimes arborescent, and with fleshy leaves (Aloe), and roots 

 fibrous fascicled, often swollen. 



Aloe. 



*A. SoroTRiNA, L. (M.). 

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