xlviil INTRODUCTION. 



ing early," which. Linnaeus himself selected as 

 therefore most appropriate to transmit his name 

 to posterity. Most of the plants of this or- 

 der are confined to the temperate regions of 



the northern hemisphere. The roasted berries 

 of Triosteum perfoliatum have been used as a 

 substitute for coffee. Leycesteria formosa, a 

 beautiful shrub from the mountains of Nepal, 



