110 PENTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA, Linum. 
1. L. usisatissimum. Willd, 1. 1533. 
Annual, ramous. Calyx and capsules mucronate. Pe- 
tals crenate. Leaves alternate, lanceolate. 
Sans. Utusee. 
Hind. Tisi. 
Beng. Mushina. 
Much cultivated over the Northern waits of India for 
the seed, from which the Hindoos extract the oil. They 
make no use of any other part of the plant, 
2. L. trigynum. R. 
Shrubby. Leaves alternate, oval. Filaments united at 
the base with alternate sterile bristles. Styles three. — 
sules six-valved, twelve-celled. 
_ Hind. Gool ashruf. 
This beautiful plant I have only met with in the gar- 
den of the curious about Calcutta, though it is indigenous 
in Hindoosthan, and the eastern parts of Bengal. Flow- 
ering time, the cold season. It grows readily from 
bits of the root; consequently, is easily propagated ; it is 
~~ jndeed, a troublesome, though beautiful weed. 
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_ Stem or rather branches numerous, sub-ereet, the whole 
shrub about two or three feet high. Bark ash-coloured. 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, ovate-oblong, with a 
bristle-like point, the larger are most minutely serrate 
toward the apex ; both sides smooth, size very various. 
Stipules minute, Flowers solitary, peduncled, large, of 
a bright, deep, rich yellow colour, inodorous. Bractes 
none, unless some small floral leaves which surround the 
_ peduncles near the base may be so called. Calyx five- 
leaved ; leaflets lanceolate, acute, smooth, erect, perma- 
nent, Petals five, claws the length of the calyx, forming 
_asitwereatube. Border flat, round, entire, inserted 
below the bristles, into the ring formed round the germ by 
the union of the base of the filaments, on the outside of 
the neck of each petal are two small toothlets. Filaments _ é 
