'456 Br It MA, ITS PEOPLE AND PPiODUCTIOyS. 



A. ArEicuLATA, "Willil. RicG fields in ChittagOBg. 



Capsule about lA line lone;. Stamens G-8. Petals not crumpled. Calyx 



4-toothed, witLout accessory teeth. Cymes slender. 



A. 0CTAJ«-DRA, L. Eice fields in Chittngong. 



AmaneUa linearis, Miq. 



Diplostemon odandrum, Miq. 



Capsule about 2 lines long. Stamens 8. Petals large, crumpled. Calyx 

 4-toothed, with as many horn-shaped accessory teeth. Cymes and pedicels short, stout. 



° ° Trees or shruls. 

 PEiirniR, Forster. 



Calyx 12-toothcd, ribbed. Petals 6. Stamens 12. Ocary 3-celled. Capsule 

 1 -celled, transversely circumsciss. 



P. ACIBFLA, Forst. Pocky coasts of Tenasserim and the Andamans. 



P. anrjustifolia, Roxb. 

 MacClellandia Griffitliiana, Wight. 



Lawsoxia, Linnaus. 



Cah/x 4-parted. Petals 4. Stamens 8. Ocary and capsule 4-celled, tlie latter 

 irregularly bursting. 



*L. DfERMis, L. Cultivated all over Burma. 



L. alha, Lamk. 

 L. spinosa, L. 

 Indian privet. 



Mason writes: "This is the campliire of the English Bible, and the cypress 

 shrub of the Greeks and Romans. ' The cypress plant,' says Rosenmuller, ' is held 

 in particularly high esteem by the Greeks, the Arabs, and the Turks ; and they think 

 that they make an agreeable present when they offer a person a posy of its flowers.' " 



There is a little confusion here. Kupros or Cyprus is given in dictionaries as 

 Eastern privet {Cyprus shrub), but it has nothing in common with Kuparissos, or 

 the Cypress tree, which was no shrub, but associated in descriptive pieces with lofty 

 and conspicuous trees, as, for example, in that pretty description (sketched in a style 

 suggestive of the Poly-Olbion of our own Drayton) of Peneos attending the wedding 

 of Peleus and Thetis — 



" Confestim Peneos adest, viridantia Tempo, 

 Tempe, qu» sylvae cingunt superimpendentes, 

 Nereidum linquens, claris cclebranda chorcis, 

 Non vacuus, namque ille tulit radicitus altas 

 Fagos, ac recto proceras stipite Laurus, 

 Non sine nutanti Platano, lentuque sorore 

 Flammati Pliaethontis, et aeria Cupressu." 



Catullus, Xupt. Pel. et Thet. 1. 285.' 



The plant makes a good lieilge, and its leaves crushed and applied to the 

 extremities give tliat colour to the skin and nails which Orientals admire, not only 



' Peneos comes from Tempe's green retreat ; 

 (Tempe, whose sward sustains the Xereids' feet ; 

 When mirthful they in tuneful strains contend, 

 To laud that vale o'erhangiug woods defend.) 

 Nor giftless comes ; for rans^ed ahout are seen 

 The spreading lieech, the J-aureFs deathless green, 

 The flutterinji; I'lanes, the Poplars straight and tall, 

 That mourn no more their darling Phaethon's fall. 

 And lofty Cypresses, with roots uptorn, 

 Th' Emathian Hall to deck on that auspicious morn. 



