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Stylidium, Sw. 



Herbs, with the habit leaves and inflorescence of the Order. 

 Calyx-lobes 5, bilabiate. Corolla irregularly 5-lobed, 4 lobes sub-erect 

 in pairs, the fifth smaller, recurved. Stamens in an elongate column, 

 often recurved or reflexed, especially when irritated. Ovary 2-celled, 

 stigma entire. — Disteib. 85 Australian species and 3 Indian or 

 Malayan. 



Stylidium tenellum, Swartz in Gesellsch. Nat. Berl. Mag. 1807, 

 51. t. 2, fig. 3, not of Br. A small erect herb ; stem simple, leafy, 

 glabrous, 4 to 8 in. high, dichotomous, compressed. Leaves scattered, 

 alternate, oblong or oblong-obovate, lower ones broader -2 to "3 in. long, 

 upper ones narrower, getting gradually smaller upwards and passing 

 gradually into bracts ; nerves of lower leaves 3, from the base. Floioers 

 sessile, 2 to 5, alternate ; bracts minute, linear. Calyx bilabiate, upper 

 3-, lower 2-lobed, lobes linear. Corolla irregularly 5-lobed, 4 lobes erect 

 linear, the fifth recurved, spathulate. Staminal column exsert, stamens 2, 

 anthers 2-celled, connivent. Ovary inferior, elongate, 2-celled, many- 

 seeded, stigma entire. Capsule 2-celled, 2-valved, -5 to -7 in. long ; 

 seeds minute, papillose. DC. Prod. VII. 336; Hook. fil. and Th. in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. II. 8 ; Miq. M. Ind. Bat. II. 571 ; Kurz in Flora, 

 1872, 304. S. roseum, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLV. ii. 137, 

 XL VI. ii. 212 ; Clarke in Hook. f. M. Br. Ind. III. 420. 



Penang : Biclley 7103. Peovince Welleslby, at Butterworth : 

 G. King. Malacca : Sioartz. — Disteib. Eastern Bengal and Burma, 

 in Dacca, Chittagong and Mergui. 



S. uliginosum, Swartz, is recorded in Fl. Br. Ind. as from " Malacca fide H. f. 

 and, T." ; as we have seen no specimens, we consider it sufficient to record the fact. 

 In Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. it is S. Kunthii, Wall., that is recorded from Malacca, and it 

 seems more likely that this is right as Griffith obtained it at Mergui. 



Order LXIII. GOODENOVIEiB. 



Shrubs, undershrubs, but chiefly herbs, juice not milky. Leaves 

 alternate or radical, rarely opposite, entire dentate or occasionally 

 pinnatifid ; stipules none. Floioers hermaphrodite, axillary or in 

 terminal spikes, racemes or panicles, regular or irregular, bracts and 

 bracteoles occasionally present. Calyx with the tube adnate to the 

 ovary or free ; lobes 5, sometimes very small, sometimes connate in a 

 ring or obsolete. Corolla gamopetalous, inserted on the calyx, usually 

 white, yellow or blue, rarely red ; lobes 5, valvate, usually indupHcate- 

 winged. Stamens 5, alternate with the corolla-lobes, inserted on the 



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