376 nvn.uA, ITS rEoi'LE asd rnoDucTioss. 



L. EOSE^, Wall. Khakyon Hills and Karon-ni (fide Mason). 



L. tricliandra, AVigbt. 

 All parts, also the rose-coloured corolla and the capsule, velvety puberulous. 



L. TRIANGFLATA, Eoxb. (M.). 



*L. succuLENTA, BluDae (M.). Cultivated. 



** Anthers free. Ovary 1- or 1-ceUed [Goodeniacea;). 



iScjjvoLA, Linnaus. 



Corolla 1- or '2-lipped, posteriorly split to the base. Soft-wooded trees or shrubs. 



S. K(ENiGii, Ybl. Coasts of Tenasserim, the Andamans, 



S. taceada, Ruxb. and the Nicobars. 



Glabrous, not or slightly silky-villous in the leaf-axils. Berries glabrous. 



Pyn-leh-tan. 



Most of the plants of this Sub-Order contain an acrid narcotic and bitter juice, 

 which is vesicatoiy, and excites violent and fatal inflammation of the intestines; hence 

 they are among the most poisonous of plants. They have been employed as metlicine, 

 but are highly dangerous, and fallen into disuse. 



Order STYLIDE^. 



Corolla epigvnous, monopetalous, anisostomonous, aestivation imbricate. Stamens 

 united to the style. Ocary with 2 many-ovuled cells. Ociiles ascending, anatropous. 

 Embryo albuminous. 



Stylidium, Sa-artz. 



S. ULiGixosuM, Swartz. Swampv lands in Arakan, Pegu and Tenasserim. 



S. Kunthii, Wall. 

 S. £r 11)10)1 is, GiifF. 

 S. tenelhon, Swartz. 



Leaves palmatinerved, almost rosulate, the stems terete. Flowers white, in 

 dichotomous leafless or few-leaved radical glandular-puberulous spikes or panicles. 



S. KosEUM, Kz. Swampy land in Chittagong. 



S. tenelhon, Kz. (non Swartz). 



ASTERALES. 

 Flowers regular or irregular ; if unisexual, usually collected in involucrate heads. 

 Limb of the calyx usually reduced to a pappus, or none. Stamens as many as the 

 corolla-lobes, rarely fewer, inserted on the corolla. Ovary inferior, 1-celled and 

 1-ovuled, or if 2- or 3-celled, only 1 cell o\'uled. Leaves exstipulate. Herbs or 

 shrubs, rarely trees. 



Order COMPOSIT^E. 



Flowers (usually called florets) collected into a head (very rarely reduced to 

 a single or a few florets), surrounded by an involucre of several to many bracts, 

 either in a single or several rows, the whole appearing like a single flower. 

 Receptacle on which the florets rest either naked, or with chaffy scales or hairs 

 or bristles between the florets. Caly.v-Hntb wanting, or transformed into a pappus 

 or ring of hairs or scales on the top of the calyx-tube. Corollas either all her- 

 maphrodite, tubular, and 5- or rarely 4-toothed (heads iliscoid), or all hermaphrodite 

 and ligulate (/.c, tubular with a flat strap-shaped lamina), or those of the centre 

 or disk tubular, and hermaphrodite or male, and those of the circumference either 

 ligulate and female, or neuter, forming a ray (heads radiate), or filiform and female 

 (heads discoid but heterogamous). Staniens 5, rarely -1, inserted in the tube of the 



