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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-eelled, 
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. Flowers 
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, eonnivent. 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. FI. Ind. Bat. II. 571; Kurz in Flora, 
1872, 304. S. roseum, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLV. ii. 137, 
XLVI. ii. 212 ; Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Br. Ind. III. 420. 
Penang : Ridley 7103. Pkovince Wellesley, at Butterworth : 
G. King. Malacca : Sivartz. — Disteib. Eastern Bengal and Burma, 
in Dacca, Chittagong and Mergui. 
S. uliginosum, Swartz, is recorded in FI. 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. FI. Ind. Bat. it is S. ICunthii, Wall., that is recorded from Malacca, and it 
seems more likely that this is right as Griffith obtained it at Mergui. 
Order LXIII. GOODENOVIE^E. 
Shrubs, undershrubs, but chiefly herbs, juice not milky. Leaves 
alternate or radical, rarely opposite, entire dentate or occasionally 
pinnatifid ; stipules none. Floivers 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 induplicate- 
winged, Stamens 5, alternate with the corolla-lobes, inserted on the 
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