JOURNAL 
OP THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 
Vol, LXVII. Part II. — NATURAL SCIENCE. 
No. 1.^1898, 
Maierlah for-a Flora of the Maktyan Peninsula, — % George Kino, 
K.CJ.E., M.a, LI1.D., Snperintendeni of tlw Eotjal Botanic 
Garden^ Calcutta. 
No. 10. 
I had hoped in the present contribution to have completeri, for 
these Matei-ints, my account of thtf whole of tTie remaining Natui-al 
Orders of Onlyt.iflorm, This liope has, however, been fmsferated by sick- 
ness. I have decided thei-efoi*e to offer now the Society the accoant 
of the five Orders which I have been able to elaborate ; trusting, at 
gome time in the near future, to deal with the remaining Orders of 
the Class. Following the sequence adopted by Sir Joseph Hooker in 
hia Flora of British India, those treated of in the present paper 
come to be nambered as heloTv ; BTos, 48 JM/tkracem, 49 Omgraceie, 50 
Saniydacei^i 52 Cncurbitaceas, and 56 Araliacem. And those which re- 
main to be described wonld be Nos. 46 Myrtac^ss^ 47 Mdasiotyiacem, 51 
PasdJhraceXy 53 Beqoiiia^mt 54 Ficoidem^ 55 UmheUiferss, and 57 
CoritaoeRt, After finishing tlie Gahjcijlorm^ I hope, in collaboration with 
my frioud and successor Dr. D. Prain, to describe the families which 
fure embraced in the gamopetaloas and apetalons gmhps. 
Older SLVIII. LZTHEACE^. 
Trees, shrubs or herbs ; branches often quadrangular. Learns entire, 
opposite, soractimes alternate or whorled ; slip^iles 0. htfiorescence 
various,' off en in cynics or panicles. Flowers hermaphrodite, regular^ 
J. ii. 1 
