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Aximo.M KDA, Linnttus. 



CoroUa gl(il)ular to tulnilar-urn-sliapod, tlm reflcxcd limb o-tnothod. SfameiiS 



10, included. Anthrr-cclh usually 1-awned. C(ili/.i- ojtvn in bud, dry in fruit. 



O. ovALiFOLiA, Wall. Martaban hills at 5000 to 7000 feet. 

 Tlio leaves of this plant poison goats. 



** Cap-side dehiscing sepficidal!;/ from flie apex (lihododendriea). 



EnoDODENDROX, LitDla'UX. 



Corolla funnel- or hell-shaped, o-eleft. Stamens 5 or 10, dcclinate. Anthers 

 opening by teruiinal pores. Cap-iiile 5-celled. 



* Leaves shorfhj appressed tomentose or lejndote leneath. Cali/.v ineonspicuous. 



\\. ARDOEKUM, Sm. Hills of Karen-ni (fide ilason). 



Leaves beneath silvery and shortlj- tomentose beneath. Ovary rusty puberulous. 

 Bracts of leaf-buds villous. 



R. FORMosrsi, Wall. var. n Xat-toung in Martaban at 



7200 feet. var. ji Maulmain hill. 



Leaves beneath and ovary and style rusty lepidote. Bracts of leaf-buds silky 

 eiliate only. 



var. /3 Veifehianam, Hook. Flowers nearly twice the size. Leaves not eiliate. 



* * Leaves jlahrous and smooth. 

 R. MorLiiKixExsE, Hook. Tenasserim at 4000 to 7000 feet. 



Ovary and style quite glabrous. Bracts of leaf-buds ciliolate. 



Near allied to Li. Javanienm, from -which it differs in its perfectly glabrous stylo 

 and ovary and soIne^yhat different nervation (the lateral nerves arising almost 

 rectangularly from the midrib) (Kurz). 



The Rhododendrons are too well known as ornamental trees to require notice, 

 those of the Sikkira Himalayas, figured by Sir J. Hooker, being perhaps unsuqiassed 

 for beauty. S(mie species possess narcotic properties, and honoy collected ■where 

 they abound is sometimes unwholesome and stupefying. An elegant red jelly is 

 however prepared from the flowers of a Himalayan species, Lt. arhoreum. The leaves 

 of Andromeda poison .slieep and goats. (inaUheria prneumhens' yields a pungent 

 volatile oil called 'oil of winter grocn' (Hooker), and the hark oi Arbutus is used 

 for tanning. 



Series II. EI'IGTXOl'S. 



Ov.\RY Infekior. 



(Except in some Goodeniacea and Brunoniacea;.) 



CAMPANALES. 

 Flowers generally irregular, rarely unisexual or collected into involucrate heads. 

 Stamens as many as the coroUa-lobes, or fewer. Oenri/ 2- to 6-celIed, rarely 1-celled. 

 Style simple. Ulijina often indusiate. Ovules numerous in the cells, rarely solitary. 



Order CAMPANULACl-Ll]. 

 CoroUa epigynous, monopetalous, regiilar, isostemonous, a;stivation valvatc. 

 Stamens epigynous. Ovary 1- to many-celled, many-ovuled. Stigma without 

 indusium. Ovules anatropous. Fruit capsular. Emhrgo albuminous. 



' Prior (Popular Xumos of British Plants, p. 2o.5) s.iys the name ' Winter green ' is applicable to a 

 species of Pi/ro/a, bnt that tlio riirhtfnl possessor of the name is the Ivy, "as being so conspicuously 

 green, when the trees are most of them bare of leaf." 



