60 NHANDIROBE.E LOASACEjE CACTACE^. 



SUB-ORDER.— NHANDIROBE^, St. Hil. 

 Wight, ill. 2, p. 28, annot. 



This small tribe consists but of 2 genera of undershrubby, climbing 

 plants : Fevillea with 5 W. Indian and S. American species ; and Zanonia, 

 with 9 E. Indian ones. Of the latter, 6 have been found in Nepal, 

 Assam, the Khassya Mountains, Prome and Taong Dong ; 1 in the Penin- 

 sula of India, and 2 in Java. Properties unknown. 

 Zanonia, L. (DC. pr. Z,p. 298;— W. and A.pr. I, p. 340.) 



1. clavigera. Wall. Cat. "b ^-^ Khassya Mountains. Introduced here 

 in 1836.— Has not fl. 



* Fevillea punctata, Poir. "b ^-^ St. Domingo. — F. trilobata, L. t* "^-^ 

 Brazil. — F. tamnifolia, H. B. and Kth. "b "^-^ S. America. — Zanonia 

 indica, L. "b *^^ Malabar. 



ORDER XXXII.— LOASACE^, Lindl. Nat. Syst. p. 53. 



Annual or perennial, seldom climbing herbs, of 11 genera, embracing 

 more than 40 species, natives of the more temperate regions or the tropics 

 of America. Properties unknown. 



Klaprothia mentzelio'ides, H. Kth. S. America. — Mentzelia his- 

 pida, Willd.; B. M. 59, t. 3205. '4. Mexico.— M. strigosa, H. B. 

 Kth. % Mexico. — Loasa nitida, Lam. ; B. M. 50. t. 2372. © Peru. 

 L. Placet, Lindl. ; B. Reg. 19. t. 1599. ® Chili.— L. lateritia, Hook ; 

 B. M. 65, t. 3632. ^ Tucuman. 



ORDER XXXIII.— CACTACE^, Lindl. Nat. Syst. p. 53. 



THE INDIAN FIG TKIBE. 



Of this order of succulent, polymorphous plants, which, under 9 genera, 

 contains about 250 species, " America is the station, no species appearing 

 to be natives of any other part of the world. The species, which are said 

 to be either wild or naturahzed in Europe, Mauritius, and Arabia," (India 

 and China) " have been introduced from America, and having found them- 

 selves in situations suitable to their habits, have taken possession of the 

 soil like actual natives. — Hot, dry, exposed places are the favorite stations 

 of Cactaceac, for which they are peculiarly adapted, in consequence of the 

 imperfect evaporating pores which they possess, as compared with other 

 j)lants ; a circumstance, which, as De CandoUe has satisfactorily shown, 

 will account for the excessively succulent state of their tissue." {Lindl.) 



