256 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AA'D PRODUCTIONS. 



Kurz adds from the Kicobars : 



E. PAKTiFLOEA, L. Kamoita. 



var. linearifoUa. 



E. ATOTA, Forst. Katchall. Groat and Car Xicubar. 



E. PILDXITEEA, L. Katchall and Kamorta. 



Iklany I^iiplwrlias (e. g. antiqurmim, nertifolia, nirulia, tinicaUi, etc.) yield 

 a milky juice of a viry acrid quality, termed on drying, Euphorhium. As a purgatiye 

 it is nuccrtain or yiolent in its action, but Waring suggests tlwt it may be usefully 

 employed as a substitute in India for Htivine, which soon spoils in a hot climate. The 

 strength recommended is gr. xx. to 3 j of lard, or goat's fat mixed with oil if for 

 Hindu or Mahommedan patients, tireat caution must be employed in reducing the 

 Eujihorbium to po\yder, as the smallest particle entering the eye or mucous passages 

 ■wouhl cause yiolent inflammation. The Euphorbia make good hedges, as they are not 

 eaten by cattle and are easily propagated. 



PEDrL.v^'THES, Ncflccr. 



Involucre either oblique and slipper-shaped, the inner side produced into a lip-like 

 appendage, or urceolate, and on the back furnished with a peltate concave appendage. 



*P. TiTHTMALOinES, Poit. E.S. Cultivated in villages and hedges in Prome- 



Flower-heads crimson, slipper-shaped. 



AMENTALES. 

 Flowers diclinous in catkins, cones or heads. Perianth none, or calyciform or 

 of 1 or more bristles, bracts, bractioles or scales. Ovary superior, 1- or 2-celled. 

 Heeds exalbuminous. Leaves alternate, simple. 



Order SALICINEJE. 



Flotcers dio?cious in catkins, sessile or shortly pedicelled, suppoi'ted by a 

 membranous persistent or deciduous bract. Perianth none, the torus swelling to 

 become a gland or obliquely truncate ring or cup. Males : Stamens 2 or more, 

 exserted from the centre of the torus. Filaments filiform, free, or monadelphous. 

 Anthers 2-celled, basifixid, the cells opening by longitudinal slits. Ovarij-rudimvnt 

 none. Females: Ovary free, sessile, or shortly stalked, consisting of 2 connate carpels, 

 1 -celled, with numerous ascending ovules along the short linear parietal placentas. 

 Sti/les 2, usually connate, with an entire or 2-eleft stigma. Capsule 1 -celled, many- 

 seeded, 2-yalyed, the valves opening at the apex, and turning more or less revolute 

 at the ripening of the fi'uit. Seeds erect, minute, the funicle dissolved into a woolly 

 tuft surrounding the whole membranous testa. Albumen none. Emhri/o straight, 

 the cotyledons elliptical, plano-convex. Stipules scale-like and deciduous or leafy, 

 and often persistent. 



Salix, Linnccus. 



S. TETEAsrERMA, Roxb. E.T. Streams all over Burma. 



Mo-ma-kha. 



There is only one .species of willow in Burma, but that is widely spread. The 

 wood is soft, light, and porous. Tlie bark is used for tanning according to Kurz, but 

 little use seems to be made of the tree, probably because for basket work bamboos are 

 handier. 



*S. Babtlonica, L. (M.). Cultivated. 



De Gubematis has the following remarks on the willow : '' TJno legcnde chretienne 

 nous apprend que le saule pleureur replie ses branches vers la terre depuis qu'il a 

 servi a cacher la Vierge et I'infant Jesus dans leur fuite en Egypte. Dans une autre 

 legonde, ce saule pleure depuis le jour que les verges ont frappe Jesus." — Mythologie 

 des Plantes, ii. p. 341. 



