268 xxvn. tiliace.*: (masters). [Glyphaa. . 



2-apiculate at the base. Fruiting pedicels thick, woody, as long as the ob- 

 long, fusiform, deeply sulcate fruit, which is 2-3 in. long, f in. in diam. 



Mozamb. Distr. Shupanga, Br. Meller ! Moramballa, Waller ! 



Differs from G. grewioides in being more tomentose, having larger flowers and much 

 thicker fruiting pedicels. 



Order XXVIII. LINE^l (by Prof. Oliver). 



Flowers regular, hermaphrodite, usually pentamerous. Sepals 4-5, free or 

 connate below, generally imbricate. Petals as many, imbricate, often contorted, 

 fugacious or rigid and persistent. Stamens 5 with or without intervening 

 staminodia, or 10, united at the base in a tube or ring (4 in Rudiola) ; anthers 

 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally, unappendaged. Ovary free, 3-5-celled. 

 Ovules solitary or geminate, pendulous. Styles 3-5, free or more or less 

 connate. Fruit a capsule, dehiscing septicidally, or drupaceous, 1-several- 

 seeded. Seeds with or without albumen. — Herbs shrubs or trees, usually 

 glabrous. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, simple, entire or nearly so. 

 Stipules lateral, intrapetiolar, or 0. 



A rather small but widely- dispersed Family ; the woody species affecting tropical coun- 

 tries. Two of the following genera are endemic. 



Flowers 4-inerons (minute). Sepals 3-dentate. (Low herb) ... 1. Radiola. 

 Flowers 5-merons. Petals contorted, unappendaged, fugacious. 



Stamens 5. Fruit a capsule. (Herbs) 2. Linum. 



Stamens 10. Fruit a drupe. {Climbers) . . 3. Hugonia. 



Flowers 5-merous. Petals contorted, unappendaged, more or less 



rigid, persistent. {Shrubs or trees) 4. Phyllocosmus. 



Leaves alternate. Petals imbricate, with transverse appendix on the 



inner face. {Shrubs or trees) 5. Erythroxyi.on. 



Leaves opposite. Petals narrow-oval, with thickened costa. (Shrub). 6. Aneulophus. 



1. RADIOLA, Gmel. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 242. 



Flowers minute. Sepals 4, 3-dentate or 3-fid, connate below. Petals 4, 

 about equal to the sepals. Stamens 4, with or without intermediate teeth. 

 Ovary 4-celled, each cell spuriously 2-locular. Styles 4, very short. — An 

 erect annual herb of 1-3 in., repeatedly forked. Leaves opposite, exstipulate. 

 Flowers in dichotomous cymose panicles. 



A genus of a solitary species, widely spread in central and southern Europe, extending 

 into temperate Asia, with outlying stations in the Atlantic islands and on the Camaroous 

 mountain in W. tropical Africa. 



1. R. Millegrana, Sm. Engl. Bot. 893. Leaves ovate or elliptical, 

 rather acute, t V"to m - l° n g- Flowers very numerous from the forks of the 

 slender branches, on slender erect pedicels ; the upper often in a crowded 

 corymbose cyme. — R. linioides, Gmel. ; DC. Prod. i. 428. 



Upper Guinea. Camaroons mountain, 7000 ft., Mann I 



Corresponds with the common Europeau form as remarked by Dr. Hooker (Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. vii. 184). 



