Order 67. Plumbaginece. 



roundish, sessile or perfoliate, spikes long and slender, flowers small 

 and dense. Hanamant Ghaut, Abu and Canara (!>.) 



ORDER 68. PEIMULACE^l. The Primrose family. 



Herbs, flowers regular, calyx inferior, style one, stigma 

 capitate, capsule valved. 



Note. This and the next order are distinguished by the stamens 

 being opposite to the corolla lobes, instead of alternate with them, 

 as in other regular monopetalous flowers. Bentham. 



The primrose, almost the earliest, and perhaps the most popular of 

 all English wild flowers, is of course unknown in the Tropics : while 

 the only representative of the order found in W. India seems to be 

 rather a doubtful native, and is, at all events, much better known 

 at home. 



ANAGALLIS. Leaves opposite entire, capsule round. 



A. arvensis. Small, erect, branches square and winged, leaves 

 ovate, stern clasping, flowers solitary axillary, long-stalked, 

 scarlet or deep blue. 



This is the common pimpernel, or shepherd's weather-glass. It is 

 found occasionally in the Deccan in moist places, and is common in 

 the Pashan valley (Mr. Woodrow) and in the S. Ghants (Dr. De 

 Crespigny}. But it is the blue flowered variety, comparatively rare 

 in England, wLich is oftenest found. 



ORDER G9. MYRSINACE^. 



Shrubs or small trees, leaves alternate undivided, flowers 

 regular, calyx inferior, anthers oblong, acute. 



A small order allied to the last, but different in habit. The leaves 

 are generally dotted with glands, as in Eutacese and Myrtaceae. 



1. M^SA. Calyx ^-bracted, nearly enclosing the round 

 many- seeded berry. 



2. ARDISIA. Calyx often enlarged in fruit, bracts small 

 deciduous, corolla segments twisted in bud, filaments very 

 short, anthers ovate lanceolate, style long, fruit roundish, one- 

 seeded. 



3. EMBELIA. Flowers small, mostly dioecious, fruit small, 

 round, one or two-seeded. 



4. ^EGIOERAS. Flowers in umbels without bracts, calyx 

 lobes imbricate, corolla lobes twisted in bud, filaments long, 

 anthers cordate lanceolate, fruit cylindric, curved, one-seeded, 



1. M2ESA. 



M. Indica. A tall shrub, with large polished leaves, oblong, 



