370 BURMA, ITS PEOriE AXD PRODUCTIOyS. 



STATIC I F.E. 

 Sfi/7es entireh/, or at least at the summit, free. Fruit nil utricle hiintiiif/ at the base 

 or circumsciss at the top. 



yEoiALiTis, li. Brown. 



Styles glabrous, free. Stii/mas capitate. Petals coriaceous, jointed beyond the 

 connate base. Fruit elongate, exscrted. Albumen none. Small trees. 



JE. ANXiTLiTA, R. Br. Chittagong, Tenassorim, and the Andamans. 



^. rotundifolii), Eoxb. 



TLUMBAGIE^E. 

 Styles entirely connate. Pericarp more or less dehiscing into 2 rnhes. 



Plujieago, Linnmis. 

 C'aly.r glandular-muricate. Fruit included in the calyx. Herbs. 

 P. Zeyxaxica, L. In rubbish}- spots all over Burma. 



Spikes glandular-pubescent. Corolla wliite. Bract ovate, leafy. Bractlets 

 subulate. 



* P. EosEA, L. Ava. Pegu Eange and Tenasserim. 



P. coccinea, Boiss. 

 Ken-khyok-ni. (Bed flowers.) 

 *P. Zeylanica, L. (M.). 

 Ken-khyok-hpyn. (Wliito flowers.) 

 *P. CAPEXsis, Thunb. (M.). 



The roots of Plumbago contain an acrid and vesicating juice, made use of by 

 beggars to create sores. 



ERICALES. 



Corolla hypogynoiis. Stamens as man}', or twice as many, as the corolla-lobes, 

 epipetalous or hypogynous. Onary 1- or many-celled, cells 1- to many-ovuled. Stir/ma 

 simple, entire or lobed. Seeds minute. 



Order EPACRIDE^. 



Flowers regular, bermaiihrodito. Calyx of 5, ranly 4, distinct sepals, much 

 imbricate in bud. Corolla with a cylindrical bell-shaped or urceolate tube, the limb 

 5- rarely 4-lobed, valvate or variously imbricate, rarely the petals all distinct. 

 Stamens as many as corolla-lobes or rarely fewer, hypogynous and free, or more 

 or less adnate to the corolla-tiibe. Anthers versatile or rarely adnate, 1-cellcd (more 

 or less perfectly 2-celled before dehiscence), opening by a single longitudinal slit into 

 2 valves, leaving no, or only a thin, slightly prominent longitudiual dissepiment. 

 ITypngynous-disk" ammhr or cupular, entire, lobed or consisting of 5 distinct scales, 

 rarely wanting. Ocary superior, 5- or fewer (rarely 6-10)-celled, the cells with 

 a solitary or several pendulous ovules. Style simple, terminal, or spuriously lateral, 

 rarely almost basal. Stiyma small, capitate or peltate, rarely slightly lobed. Fruit 

 in the 1-ovuled genera indehiscent, and in the several-ovuled ones more or less 

 drupaceous, capsular and loculicidally dehiscing. Embryo terete or nearly so, much 

 shorter than the albumen, the radicle next the hilum. 



An almost exclusively Australian Order. A very few species have been found 

 in the Indian Archipelago and Malaya. , 



Leucopogon, Linnmus. 

 L. Malatani-s, Jack. Tenasserim. 



