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Order X. Capparidace^. 
VoL i. p. 119, after sp. i, Cleome viscosa Linn., insert :— 
(lA) C. chelidonii Linn. fit. Suppl. 300; Hook. fil. F.B.l. 
i. 170; Burkill, Gardens Bulletin iii. 280. 
Glabrous annual herb i to 3 ft, tall. Leaves 5 to 9-foliate; 
petioles 3 iri- long; leaflets of lower leaves broadly lanceolate or 
obovate, narrowed to a long base, 1*5 to 1*75 in. long, *5 in. wide, 
of upper leaflets narrow linear, i in. long, *08 in. wide. Flowers 
racemose on long pedicels, -5 to i in. wide, rose pink. Petals 
sessile ovate. Capsule 2 to 4 in. long, tapering at each end. Seeds 
large, pale brown, muricate. Penang, Pulau Tikus and 
Province Wellesley, Prai dock (Curtis) fide Burkill l.c. Disirih. 
India and Siam. 
Easily distinguished from C. viscosa by the absence of sticky 
hairs on the stem and its large pink flowers. I have seen no speci¬ 
men from Penang; a plant sent from Prai dock (Curtis 2212) is 
certainly C. viscosa. Burkill states that the plant is used as a 
drug in the Chinese shops in Singapore, as is C. viscosa. It is 
probably an escape from gardens or drug stores. 
Order XIV. Caryophyllace^e. 
Vol. i. p. 150, after genus i, Drymaria, insert :— 
2. STELLARIA, Linn. 
Herbs, Leaves opposite, ovate or lanceolate, sessile or petioled. 
Stipules absent. Flowers terminal or in axillary cymes, few, white. 
Sepals 5- Petals 5 j bifid or absent. Stamens 8 to 10, hypogynous. 
Disc annular or lobed, sometimes very inconspicuous. Ovary 
unilocular, many-ovuled. Styles 3. Capsule ovoid or oblong, 
splitting into 3 or more valves. Seeds reniform-globose, often 
flattened pustular, brown. Species 70, chiefly temperate regions, 
rarer in the tropics. 
Leaves ovate petioled, or sessile.(i) S. media 
Leaves lanceolate sessile . . . . . .' (2) S- uliginosa 
(i) S. media Cyrill Char. Comm. 36; Sowerby Efig. Bot. ii. 
93, pi. 229; Hook. fil. F.B.L i. 230. 
A weak tufted or straggling herb, 4 to 6 in. tall or more; stems 
with a line of hairs. Leaves ovate acute or lanceolate, lower ones 
petioled, upper ones sessile glabrous, base round or narrowed into 
the petiole, '2 to *25 in. long, and nearly as wide; petioles •! to *15 in. 
long. Flowers small, solitary in upper axils on hairy (or glabrous) 
filiform pedicels *5 in. long or less. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, blunt, 
bristly on the back, *15 in. long. Petals shorter, deeply bifid, white 
or absent. Stamens 5 to 10. Capsule longer than calyx, cylindric 
ovoid, splitting into 5 oblong-linear, blunt lobes. Seeds brown, 
tubercled. Hab. Perak, Cottage grounds at 4500 ft. altitude 
