Hugoma.'] LinacecE. 189^ 



sep. lanceolate, acute, glabrous, with membranous margins, 

 3-veined ; pet. slightly longer than sep., rotundate ; stam. 

 with fil. dilated and connate below ; no staminodes ; style 

 very slightly connate below, stigmas globose ; capsule globose, 

 apiculate, surrounded by persistent sep., splitting into 10 valves ; 

 seeds 10, oval, compressed, smooth. 



Montane zone from 4000-6000 ft., on the patanas ; rare. Abundant 

 between Hakgala and Wilson's Bungalow, and about Sita Eliya. Fl. 

 March and April ; pale yellow. 



Also in the W. Himalayas and the hills of the Indian Peninsula. 



2. HUGONXA, L. 



Shrubs, climbing by circinate peduncles ; fl, axillary ; 

 sep. 5, distinct, unequal, imbricate ; pet. 5, distinct, contorted ; 

 stam. 10, fil. connate at base ; ov. 5-celled, with 2 ovules in- 

 each cell, styles 5, distinct ; fruit a drupe, stone lo-celled,. 

 I -5 -seeded ; seeds pendulous, embryo flat, endosperm scanty. 

 — Sp, 6 ; 2 in Fl. B. Ind. 



L. glabrous i. H. Mystax. 



L. densely silky beneath 2. H. ferruginea. 



The circinate spines are evidently modified peduncles and occasion- 

 ally bear flowers. 



I. H. BIystax,* L. Sp. PI. 677 (1753). HWCaha-g-^tiya, Bu- 

 g^^tiya, S. Motirakanni, T. 



Herm. Mus. 9. Burm. Thes. 57. Fl. Zeyl. n. 249 (part). Moon Cat. 

 49. Thw. Enum. 25. C. P. 1185. 

 Fl. B. Ind. i. 413. Wight, 111. t. 32. 



A scrambling shrub, with wide-spreading, yellow-tomen- 

 tose branches set with short, horizontal twigs leafless below 

 and provided at the end with a pair of nearly opposite, woody, 

 reflexed, circinate, tapering, tomentose spines in the axils of 

 the two lowest 1. or scales ; 1. alternate, on the main branches 

 distant, on the lateral twigs crowded at their ends, 1-4 in., 

 variable, oval or oblong-oval or obovate-oval, tapering to 

 base, obtuse, entire or somewhat dentate, glabrous, thin, with 

 reticulate venation prominent on both sides, petiole very 

 short, stip. conspicuous, setaceous, persistent ; fl. rather large, 

 \-\\ in., on woolly ped. as long as sep., in axils of the crowded 

 1. at end of twigs ; outer sep. lanceolate-oblong, tomentose, 

 obtuse ; pet. many times longer than sep., oblong-oval, acute 

 or truncate ; styles longer than stam,, stigmas capitate ; drupe 



* From the resemblance of the curved woody tendrils to a pair of 

 moustaches. 



