4. Helinus.] ST. UKAMNACEM. 



4. HelimiS, E. Meyer. 

 1. H. lanceolatus, Brandis. 



A bright green slender climbing shrub with some of the 

 branchlets modified into tendrils, ovate or lanceolate acute 

 entire leaves about 2|" by 1J* and very numerous small 

 yellowish flowers in slender peduncled cymes which are 

 axillary or paniculate by reduction of the leaves. Fruit » 

 3-celled drupe. 



Singbhum in Rolahamsada Gara, Jate Road, etc, rare ; Neterhat, 3000 

 ft«, Gamble ! ; Santal P. (Chandna). 



Fl. Jany. -March. Fr. March-April. 



Branches finely ridded, puherulous. L. glaucous "beneath, those on 

 inflorescence much reduced. 3-nerved with 1-2 pairs of sec nerves and 

 reticulate nervules. Stipules -„V' deciduous. Fls. Ht" diam. shallow. 

 Petals 5 oblong folded round the filaments whitish. St. inserted on the 

 free margin of the disc. Anthers exserted. Ovary eunk in the disc 

 3-celled. Style 3-fid. Fruit i" diam. 



Fam. 38. AHPEIJDACEA. 



Erect or climbing herbs or shrubs with the branches 

 often transformed into tendrils in the vines (Vitis). L, alter- 

 nate, simple or compound, stipulate. Fls. small in compound 

 inflorescences; regular, often polygamous. Calyx small 4-5- 

 lobed or truncate. Petals 4-5, valvate, sometimes falling off 

 in a cap without expanding (calyptrate). St. equal in 

 number to the petals and opposite to them, sometimes united. 

 Anthers 2-celled, introrse. Disc large. Ovary free or the 

 base sunk in the disc, 2-6-celled with 1-2 ascending ana- 

 tropous ovules in each cell. Style usually very short or 0. 

 Stigma simple or sub-lobed. Fruit a berry. Seeds with 

 copious endosperm. 



N r B. — Both the tendrils and the inflorescence in Vitis are morpho- 

 logically main axes which get thrust aside with the growth of the stronger 

 axillary shoots and so appear leaf -op posed. 



Climbers usually wit;, tendrils. Ovary usually 2-celled 1. Vitis, 

 Erect without tendrils. Ovary 3-C-celled . ♦ .2. Leea. 



274 



