378 BURMANN1ACE.E. 



but with glands or a disc, two stamens and a one-celled 

 ovary containing few or many ovules on two or four 

 placentas. Fruit an egg-shaped capsule with few or 

 many seeds with long silky tuft of hairs. Embryo with 

 plano-convex cotyledons and short radical pointing 

 downwards endosperm. 



Species 200 chiefly in north temperate zone. 



Salix tetraspcrma Roxb, ; F.B.I, v 626, I i. A 

 large well-branched tree with slender twigs. Leaves 2 

 to 3 by I ^ to 2 inches, ovate-acute, serrate, glabrous but 

 bluish underneath, glossy above : stalk ^ inch. Male 

 calkins 2 to 4 inches in leafy branches, bracts broad 

 ovate, hairy. Female calkins 3 to 5 inches, with smaller 

 bracts. Capsule ^ to /^ inch, very variable : seeds four 

 to six. 



Nilgiris : Ootacamund to Pykara. Pulneys : Poombari 

 valley, not near Kodaikanal. J^yson 2476. Bourne 1268. 



Gen. Dist. Mountains of tropical and sub-tropical India from Punjab to 

 Travancore and Singapore, not Ceylon. 



BURMANNIACE^E. 



Annual, or by a rhizome perennial, erect usually 

 unbranched herbs, with leaves mostly at the base or 

 reduced to mere scales. Flowers solitary or in 

 terminal pyramidal panicles ; with inferior ovary ; three 

 greenish sepals ; three petals, smaller or even obsolete ; 

 and three to six stamens inserted and enclosed in the 

 perianth tube, with short, even very short, filaments 

 and normal anthers on a variously dilated connective. 

 Ovary with three placentas, parietal or axile. Seeds 

 numerous, minute. 



A small family of about 50 species in the tropics of the Old 

 World, China, and North America. 



