Linum. PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. © 109 
it blossoms in April, but has never ripened its fruit in 
Bengal. 
Trunk straight, perfectly simple, about twelve feet hig h, 
and eighteen inches in circumference, towards the top 
marked with the large cicatrices of the fallen leaves, 
otherwise perfectly smooth, and ash-coleured. Leaves 
round the top of the plant, below the inflorescence, une- 
qually pinnate, drooping, about six feet long. Leaflets 
about twenty pair, opposite, subsessile, drooping, ovate- 
lanceolate, margins waved and slightly serrate, very 
smooth on both sides, upper surface shining ; length 
from four to eight inches, and from two to three broad, 
Petioles smooth, sharp on the upper edge, jointed at the 
insertion of the leaves, and then much swelled. Inflo- 
rescence, I will call it an immense terminal pannicle is- 
suing as in Corypha umbraculifera, from the apex 
of the simple Papaya-like stem and composed of nu- 
ous, primary, diverging, compound branches, of from 
three to four feet in length, while the numerous di- 
verging branchlets thereof are from six to nine inches 
long, and support numerous alternate diverging pedun- 
cles of small, globular heads, of from six to - 
sessile, greenish, stellate flowers. Bractes minute. In- 
volucres also very minute. Calyx superior, obscurely 
five-toothed, Petals five, broad-lanceolate, spreading. 
Filaments shorter than the petals, spreading. Anthers 
ovate. Germ inferior, crowned within the insertion of 
the petals and stamina, with a convex, grooved, coloured 
gland ; from its centre rise the five styles, which are in 
some degree coalesced, and shorter than the corol, Stig- 
mas five, distinct, and simple. 
LINUM., Schreb. gen. n. 528. 
Calyx five-leaved. Corol five-petalled. Capsule su- 
perior, from five to six-valved, from ten to twelve-cel 
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