413 XXIX. LiNEiE. (J, D. Hooker,) [Reinrvardtla 



pogynous, connate below, alternating with as many interposea suuuu*tc 

 staminodes. Glands 2-3, adnate to the stamina! ring. Omry 3-5-celled, 

 cells 2-locellate; styles 3-4, fihform, free or connate below, stigmas m^ 

 capitate ; ovules 1 in each locellus. Capsule globose, splitting into 6-» 

 cocci Seeds reniform.— DxSTRiB. The following are the only species. . 



1. ». trigryna, Planck in Hooh Land. Joum. Bot. vii. 522; leaves 

 elliptic-obovate with the tip rounded or elliptic and subacute quite entire or 

 minutely crenate-serrate, styles 3 free or connate at the base. R. ^'^^^^b 

 DumarL Comm. Bot. 19. jR. repens, Planck I.e. 523. Linum trigynum, Koxo. 

 FL Ind. ii. 110; Smith Exot Bot 31, t. 17; Bot. Mag, 1. 1100; Wall Cat\o^^\ 

 W.dcA.Frodr. 1 34 L. repens, Don Prodr. 217. Macrolinum trigynum, Jieicfu>: 

 Ic. PL Germ, iii. 68. Kittelocharis trigyna, Alef, in Bot. ZeiL 1863, 282. , 



Hilly parts of India, from the Punjab eastwards to Sikkim, ascending to 6000 ft. 

 Behar, AysAM, and CHrrrAGONG, and southwards from the Bombay Ghats w 



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A tufted glabrous undershrub, 2-3 ft. high, with erect and prostrate rooting terete 

 rather stout soft branches. Leaves 1-3 in,, narrowed into slender petioles, ¥"^*v ■ 

 rounded and tDacronate at the tip, and then quite entire, hrt sometimes acute or ev 

 wddenly acuminate, and then minutely crenate-serrate. Flowers often 1 in. ?'^™'' • 

 variable in number, size, len<;th of pedicel, and of sepals, which are sometimes J • 

 long. Capsule shorter than the sepals, the size of a small pea.— If, as is F^, ^^ ^^ 

 and the following species are varieties of one, Dumortier's nsimQ oi B. indica m 

 be retained for both. 



2. a. tetragryna, Planck in Ilooh. Land. Joum. Bot. vii. 523 ; leav^ 

 elliptic-lanceolate acuminate crenate-serrate, styles 3-4 united beiow. 

 R. trigyna, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Flor, 16. Linum tetragynum, Co^^. «» 

 Wall. Cat. 1606; Bentk in Bot. Beg. under tab. 1326. L. Cicanobum, i^oi^ 

 Prodr 



In the same re^ons as R, trigyna^ but usually in damper localities 



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Easily distingmshed from the common type of R, trigjjna by the much larger ^^ ^^ 

 late leaves, and- more numerous styles, but variable in the former respect, and 1 susp 

 that the two are varieties of one.— 1 have a note to the effect that 5 styles occur. 



Wall 



, Perennial herbs. Leaves alternate or somewhat whorled at the top of e 

 stem, coriaceous, serrate ; stipules intrapetiolar, striate. Flmcers in 

 minal si)ike-like racemes, white or pink ; bracts minute, coriaceous, c<^"^ •; 

 grooved, caducous, pedicels at length reflexed. Sepals 5, lanceolate, cu 

 aceous, strongly nerved, 3 outer with spreading gland-tipped »"»" ' 

 2 inner glandular. Petals 5, contorted, fugacious. Utamens 5, ]'yP<^7'//7^ 

 filaments connate below, alternating with interposed staminodes. trw 

 usually 3, adnate to the stamina! tube, one very large. Ovary 6-c^'' 

 styles 3, stigmas terminal ; ovules 2, collateral in each cell. Capsule ooi^Jg 

 membranous, indehiscent? 1 -seeded. Seed oblong, testa adherent lo 

 thin albumen ; embryo straight, green, cotyledons plano-convex,— i^^** 

 The following are the only species. 



1. A. saxatiUs, Wall Cat. 1510 ; stem glabrous leafy at the sumniit» 

 leaves 2-5-in. glabrous above sparingly pubescent or glabrous Denc' 

 A. Khasyana, Griff. Notul. iv. 534 ; Ic. PL Asiat. t. 593 {middle Jig urej. ^^ 



>:.CS?'fRAL and Eastekn Temperate Himalaya ; Nipal, Sikkim.^alt. 6-8000 ft., «n 

 the Khasia Mts., alt. 5-6000 ft. J i :; •: i a;ii--; > :^Cff f Kv - - ', ' , ibliage. 

 /aem curved at the base, ascending, rallier stout, often 1 ft. long below tne 



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