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COMPOSIT A. 
Flowers (usually called florets) collected into a head (very 
rarely reduced to a single or a few florets) , surrounded by an invol- 
pappus 
Corollas either all hermaphrodite, tubular and 5- or rarely 4-toothed 
(heads discoid), or all hermaphrodite and ligulate (7. ¢., tubular with 
he itary, or in panicles or corymbs, sometimes reduced to clusters or 
eads, 
The largest family of phanerogams, numbering nearly 10,000 
Species. About 120 species have been found in Burma, of which 
only very few are woody. A bitter matter, combined with astrin- 
Sency, an acrid resinous substance, and some ethereal oil, are the 
stimulating tonic. Oil abounds in the seeds of many species, and 
some of them, like sunflower (Helianthus annuus), Madia sativa, and 
Guizotia oleifera, axe locally cultivated on a larger scale. Saf- 
cultivated in Prome district. Chicory (Cichorium intybus) is much 
cultivated in Europe for its tap-root, used as a substitute for coffee. 
