410 xxix. LINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 



Petals as many, hypogynous or slightly perigynous, usually fugacious, often 

 contorted. Stamens 4-5 with as many interposed staminodes, or 8-10, 

 rarely more, filaments united at the base into a hypo-ynous or slightly 

 perigynous ring, filiform ; anthers versatile, 2-celled. Glands />, entire or 

 2-lobed, usually adnate to the staminal ring, or obsolete. Ovury entire, 

 3-5-celled ; styles 3-5, free or more or less connate, stigmas terminal; 

 ovules 1 or 2, inserted in the inner angle of the cells, anatropous, pendulous. 

 Fruit usually splitting into 3-.") cocci, rarely a drupe. Seeds 1-2 in each 

 cell, testa sometimes winged, albumen fleshy or ; embryo nearly as long 

 as the seed, straight, rarely incurved) cotyledons broad, radicle superior. 

 DISTRIB. All regions ; genera 14, specres about 135. 



TRIBE I. Eulineee. r>t>>l< contorted, fugacious. Perfect stamens as 

 many as the petals. Capsule septicidal. Herbs rarely shrubs. 



Calyx glabrous or pubescent :>sule 5-celk-d . . . 1. LIMM. 



Calyx glabrous. Styles 3-4. Cajisuli- ?> 4-< 'lied ..... '2. HI.INWAHDTIA. 

 Calyx setose. Si ipsuK: 1 -celled, 1 -.-.foiled ..... 3. AMSAIH 



TRIBE II. Hug-onieae. /V-r/s contorted, fugacious. /v/v'^7 

 2-3 times as many as the petals. Fruit a drupe. I'sually scandent shrubs, 

 with hooked woody tendrils tunned of arrested branchlets. 



SepaU sabacnte, tomentow, ebracteola&e ......... -1. HO;'>MA. 



Sepals obtuse, br i ............. 5. K"i CIIKKIA. 



TRIBE III. Erythroxyleae. I\t<iJ* imbricate, rarely contorted, with a 

 scale on the inner face, at length deciduous. J'< //( x^///<//x twice as many 

 as the petals. Fruit a drupe. Shrubs or t; 

 Pedicels axillary. IVtuls with u doul-lc scale ....... 0. I li:v i m;'>\\ i.".\. 



TRIBE IV. Xxonantheee. Prfo/< contortedj persistent. Stamens 2-3-4 

 times as many as the i-etals. ( '/yx///.- septicidal 

 Stamens perigynous ............... 7. IXO.NANTHES. 



1. ZiIMVM, Linn. 



Herbs, rarely shrubby below. Lc.av*'* narrow, quite entire; stipules 0, 

 or rei>laced by glands. ,sVyw//x n, unite entire. Petah ">, contorted, fugacious. 

 Stamens 5, often alternating with minute staminodes. (,'li/in/.^ opposite the 

 petals, adnate to the staminal rinu r - <>>' "//. Vcelled, cells 2-locellate, ^-ovuled; 

 styles usually free, stigmas various ; ovules 10, 1 in each loceilus. (.' 

 5-celled, septicidally splitting into 5 simple ^-seeded or 10 1 -seeded cocci. 

 /sVr-r/.s compressed, albumen sparing ; embryo straight. Species about 80, 

 most of them Mediterranean. 



1. Xi. usitatissimum, Linn. ; annual, stem cylindric erect simple 

 below, leaves narrow sub-3-nerved, petals blue, styles quite free, stigmas 

 linear-clavate, capsule scarcely exceeding the narrowly white-mar 

 acuminate sepals. Wall. Cat. 1504; linn J'fH/r. -1\~ ; ll-i.i-h. /'/. ///-/. ii. LlOj 

 Git*. <( l)<ilz. nn,,tl,. ri. ,s' w /. io; l)C. Pnxlr. 217; W..& A. Prodr. 134. 

 L. trinervium, Roth Nov. S/j. 187. 



Cultivated chiefly for oil throughout INDIA, up to 6000ft., in the Himalaya. DISTRIB. 

 Westwards to the Atlantic. 



Stems 2-4 ft., often solitary, corvmbosely branched above. Leaves linear or lanceo- 

 late, without stipular glands. Flowers 1 in. diam., in broad cymes. Sepals ovate, 

 acuminate, 3-nerved, eglandular, margins ciliate or not. The Indian plant has the 



