383 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AXD PPODUCTIOXS. 



Section ABRnTANUM. 



Flower-hfads hdcrouamous, tlic rai/-florcii< female, the dislc-flurd'i hennaphrodife : 

 all fill Ih'. 



A. TULGAErs, L. var. a Khakypn Hills nnd Karcn-ni {fde Mason). 



A. h'pfoxtacln/a, D.C. var. ft Ava and Khukyeu Hills. 



Leaves once oi' twice bipinnatifid, the segments rather broad and elongate, more 

 or less grej-ish or silky-villose beneath. Plower-heads in large panicles. 



A. CDKviroLi.\, Eoxb. Prome. 



Leaves twice or thrice bipinnatifid, glabrous, the segments almost filiform, acute. 

 Plowcr-heads rather large, in loose panicles. 



The English name of Artemisia ahsitithium, L., Wormwood, affords a curioiis 

 illu-stration of how the sense of words and names gets changed through the errors 

 of copyists and the ignorance of uneducated people. The word was originally 

 U'er-mod or wer-miith from irehren or irerian, to keep off, and mod, a maggot or worm. 

 In time nrr got altered into ivorm, annexing the initial letter of the next word, and 

 od (left out in the cold!) naturally got fashioned into wood, the more so as the plant, 

 being a bitter one, was considered good against ' worms.' — Prior, Popular Names of 

 British Plants, p. 258. 



-\--\- Florets of circumference very numerous. Achenes fiat or concave at the top. 

 Flower-lwads ,ij)!ierical or /lemisjiiierieal. 



CoTULA, Linnicus. 



Florets of the circumference without any or with a very short broad or conical 

 corolla, the hermaphrodite florets 4-toothcd, with a widened or thin tube. AcluHes 

 flat, obtuse or truncate. Floiver-lieads pcduncled. Small herbs. 



C. ANTHEMoiDEs, L. var. a Khakyen Hills. 



Fieiogiine cardiospcrma , Edg. var. ft Bhamo. Pegu, 



var. a gemiina. Achenes not winged, 

 var. ft iiemisji/ierica, D.C. Achenes winged. 



Mymogyxe, Less. 

 Florets of the circumference with a 2-3-clcft corolla nearly as long as the style, 

 the hermaphrodite florets 4-toothed. Bracts of involucre small and much shorter 

 than the 3-4-cornered achenes. Flourr-iieads sessile, minute. Prostrate herbs. 



M. MiNTJTA, Less. All over Burma, and now introduced into the Andaraans. 



Artemisia sferiiutatoria, Eoxb. 

 Dic/irocepliala SeJ/midii, Wight. 

 M. Cunninff/iamii, D.C. 

 Centipcda orbicularis, Miq. non Lour. 

 Splmromorpluea Eusseliana, D.C. 

 Centipcda minima, A. Braun ct A sellers. 



Centipeda, Loureiro. 



As preceding, but involucral bracts large and broad, in fruit connivent and 

 covering the cylindrical slightly stiiate acheni'S. Prostrate herbs. Flower-heads 

 sessile, small. 



C. OKBicuLAitTS, Lour. In dried-up marshes near Kadbouree (Siam). 



X X Pappus usualhj of numerous capillary sift hristles {rarely paleaceous or none). 

 " Anthers tailed at the liase. 

 Sub-tiil.e INULOIDIE.-E. 

 Flou-er-heads helcrogamous, discoid or radiate, or homoyamom in ahsence of the ray- 

 florets. Anther-cells terminating in a basal bristle or tail. Sfyle-bianehcs linear, obtuse 

 and not appendajed {or the style undivided in t/ie sterile florets). Leaves usually 

 alternate. 



