218 S. Kurz — Contrilutions towards a [No. 2, 



2. P. EOSEA, L. sp. pi. I. 215 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. I. 463 ; Bot. Mag. t. 

 230 and t. 5363,— (P. coccinea, Boiss. in DC. Prod. XII. 693). 



Hab. Not unfrequent in the moister mixed forests o£ the Pegu 

 Yomah and the Martaban hills down to Tenasserim ; also Ava. Often cul- 

 tivated and springing up in toungyas, along the river-banks, etc. — Fl. Fr. 

 CS. 



FLANTAGINE^. 

 Plantago, L. 



1. P. MAJOR, L. sp. pi. 163 ; Engl. Bot. t. 1558 ; Flor. Dan. t. 461 ; 

 DC. Prod. XIII/1, 694. 



Var. p. AsiATiCA, Dene, in DC. Prod. XIII/1, 694 (P. Asiatica, L. 

 sp. pi. 163 ; Wight Illustr. t. 177). 



Hab. Ava, Khakyen hills (J. Anderson). 



Endlicher j)laces FlantaginecB near Plumlaginecs, and I believe this to 

 be the true affinity, for, with the exception of the stamens being alternate 

 with the petals, the characters are all reducible to the Plumbaginaceous type. 



PBIMTILACEu^, 



Conspectus of Oenera. 

 Trib. 1. FHIMUZUJE. Capsule quite free (not adnate to the base of the calyx), 

 dehiscing usually by longitudinal valves. 



Primula. Corolla salver- or funnel-shaped, furnished at the throat with 5 gibbose 

 swellings. Capsule opening by 5-valves. Scapigerous annuals or perennials. 



Lysimachia. Corolla rotate or bell-shaped, with gibbose swelliags at the throat. 

 Capsule usually 5-valved. Erect or creeping simple or branched herbs. Flowers soli- 

 tary and axillary, or in racemes or spikes. 



Trib. 2. ANAGALLIBE^. Capsule quite free, circumsciss-dehiscing. 

 Anagallis. Corolla rotate or bell-shaped. Herbs with alternate or opposite 

 leaves. 



Lysimachia, L. 

 Conspectus of Species. 



* Flowers solitary or by pairs in the leaf-axils. 



Glabrous ; stem erect, terete ; leaves linear ; flowers slenderly pedicelled, 



. . L. linearifoUa. 

 Glabrous, erect, the stem 4-cornered ; flowers slenderly pedicelled ; leaves lanceolate, 



.. L. peduncularis, 



* * Flowers in terminal racemes. 



X All parts glabrous. 



Stamens shorter than the petals, narrowly bordered, Z. multiflora* 



Stamens exserted ; sepals broadly-white-bordered, L, lobelioides, 



X X Stems and racemes (glandular ?) hairy. 

 Habit of X. lobelioides, corolla twice the length of the calyx, L. Grifithiana. 



1. L. LiNEAEiFOLiA, Griff, in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1873. 86. 

 Hab. Burma, probably Ava ('Griff. 3532). 



