23. LINACEM. 



3-5 free, or somewhat connate. Ovules 1-2. axile, pendulous, 

 anatropous. Fruit a septicidal capsule usually splitting into 

 3-8 1-2- seeded cocci or (in Erythroxylon) a drupe. Embryo 

 nearly as long as seed, cotyledons broad. 



Shrub or undershrub. Fls. showy yellow . „ . , 1. Beinwardtia. 



Cultivated shrub, Fr. a drupe. Fls. white ... 2. Erythroxylon. 



Cultivated herbs. Fls. blae ........ 3. Linum. 



1. Reinwardtia, Dumort. 



1. R. trigyna, Planch. Lungora, Vern. (Wood). 



A very pretty small shrub 2-4 ft. high with green herba- 

 ceous branches, ovate-oblong to elliptic-lanceolate entire or 

 cren ate- serrate leaves and bright chrome-yellow flowers 1-1J" 

 diam. on numerous small axillary branchlets, rarely solitary 

 or in terminal cymes. 



Usually on damp shady banks near nalas, throughout the area. 



Fl. Oct-Feby. 



Glabrous. Branches erect or prostrate and rooting 1 . L. up to 3-4" 

 rarely sometimes with minute teeth, mucronate, narrowed into the 

 slender \-\" petiole. Sepals erect. Petals obovate. Styles 3, or 4-5 (R. 

 tetragyna, Planch.)' 



Erythroxylon Coca, Lamk. has been grown on the Ranohi plateau 

 ror the drug Cocaine derived from i's leaves, without, it is believed, 

 much success. It is a native of the Andes and Peru where the leaves are 

 used as a masticatory. 



I,inum usitatissimum. L Vern. Unchi, K. ; Tisi r H. The 

 Linseed, is a common cold weather crop, and sometimes cultivated in 

 gardens for its pretty blue flowers. 



Fam. 24. GERAMACEJI. 



Tribe. Oxalideae. 



Averrhoa Carambola, L Vern. Karmaranga, H is a tree with 

 droopia^ branches alt. imparipinnate leaves and small resrular flowers 

 ▼ariegawd with white and purple wh' chare borne in panicles, sometimes 

 from the old wood. Fr. 3" long oblong 5-angled, fleshy. Occasionally 

 cultivated on the Kanchi plateau. The fruits are eaten. 



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