III.] 



COMPOSITE. 



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the herbage of Uncaria Ga?nbir in the Malay Islands and 

 Peninsula. It is exported for the use of tanners and dyers. 

 The Munjeet is a near ally of the Madder, cultivated in 

 Europe and the Levant {Riibia tindorid). It affords the 

 valuable dye called " Indian red." The leaves of Canthium 

 parviflorum^ used as a fence-shrub, are eaten in curries. 



52. Natural Order, Compositce. — The Composite Family. 

 Trees, shrubs, or herbs, with alternate or opposite leaves 

 and capitate inflorescence. Anthers syngenesious. Ovary 

 one-celled, with one erect ovule. 



Type — The Garden Zinnia {Zinnia elegans). 



Fig. 141. Zinnia elegans, consid&rahXy v&ductd. 



A common garden annual (imported from America), with 

 opposite entire leaves, and terminal, solitary, showy heads 

 of variously coloured florets. 



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