IIAMAMELIDE.E. SAXIFRAGE.'E. DROSERACE-E. 483 



if we except a Catholic priest, a resident of Rangoon, wlio lias iiitroiliiced it in 

 a little Burmese medical treatise, that was lithographed a few years ago hy Col. 

 Burney, who took a lithographic press with hira iuto Burma. This gentleman, 

 however, seems to have mistaken the tree, for he describes it as the one that 

 produced the Balsam of Peru {Myrospennum Peruiferum), and which belongs to 

 a dirt'crent natural family." 



Liquidamber altingia is a large forest tree in Java, and one of those which 

 yield liquid storax, a balsam containing benzoic acid, and possessing considerable 

 influence over the mucous surfaces, and acting as a stimulating expectorant. 



Order SAXIFRAGEiE. 



Flowers usually hermaphrodite and regular. Calyx 5- rarely 4-12-merous, 

 free or adnate to the calyx, the lobes valvate or imbricate. Petals usually 4 or 5, 

 rarely none, perigynous, rarely epi- or hypo-gynous, imbricate or valvate. Stamens 

 as many or twice as many as petals, rarely indefinite. Filaments free. Anthers 

 usually didymous. Intrasfaminal disk often present, and sometimes passing into 

 staminodes or glands. Ovary more or less adnate to the calyx, or if free usually 

 attached to a broad base, either 2- to 5-celled, or with 2 to 5 parietal placentas, 

 very rarely contracted at tlie base, or apocarpous, with several or very rarely a 

 solitary ovule in each cell, or to each placenta. Styles as many as ovary-cells, free 

 or rarely united. Fruit a capside, or rarely berry-like and indehisceut. Seeds 

 usually small, with or rarely without albumen. Embryo straight, small, or rarely 

 rather large. Herbs, rarely shrubs or trees, with alternate or opposite, simple or 

 compound leaves. Stipules present or not. 



ESCALLOXIE.E. 

 Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate. Stipules none. Stamens as many as petals. 



PoLTosM.\, Blame. 

 Orary inferior, 1 -celled. <S/^Ze simple. /'Vm/j" a 1 -seeded berry. 

 P. "Wallichii, Benn. Tropical forests of the .\.ndamans. 



Yery near to P. ilicijolia, BL, but tlie flowers are smaller and the fruits dilferent. 



Order DROSERACEiE. 



Petals 5, hypogynons, imbricate. Stamens 5, rarely more. Antlurs extrorse. 

 Ovary usually 1-celled, and with parietal placeutation. Capsule with semi-placenti- 

 ferous valves. Embryo albuminous. 



Droser.\, Linnaius. 

 Stamens 4-8. Styles 2-5, simple, 2-partcd, or many-cleft. Ovary 1-cclled. 

 Glandular-pilose herbs, scapiferous or not. 



X Leaves radical or nearly so, rosulate. Scapes leaf ess. 

 D. BuRM.vxNr, Mil. Chittagong. Rare in Prorae. 



Leaves obovate-spathulate. Flowers white or pale rose. 



X X Leaves scattered. Scapes leafy. 

 J). Indica, L. Pegu and Tcnasserim. 



Leaves linear. Flowers purple. 



D. PELTATA, Sm. Xat-toung East of Toung-ngoo at 7000 feet. 



B. lunata, Ilam. Upper Tenasserim from 1500 to 3000. 



I). Lobbiana, Turcz. 

 The most familiar example of this Order is the Venus fly-trap {Bionaa muscipula), 

 with its sensitive and insecticidal leaves, which close over the unwaiy fly wliich 

 alights thereon. 



