Linum.} xxix. LINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 411 



ciliated axile margins of the carpels of L. humile, Mill., and the crenate petals (Roxb.) 

 and smooth leaf-margins of L. usitatissimum, and is thus intermediate between these 

 supposed species. Roth's specimens of trinervlum (from Herb. Rottler) are from a garden ; 

 they are very imperfect, but clearly L. usitatissimum. 



2. Zi. perenne, Linn. ; perennial, steins many from the roots, leaves all 

 lanceolate or lower oblong obtuse and upper linear acute, petals blue entire, 

 styles quite free, stigmas subcapitate, capsule much longer than the white- 

 margined sepals. 



WESTERN TIBET, alt. 9-13,000 ft., Hb. Royle, Munro, &c. ; LAHUL, Jaeschke. 

 DISTRIB. Westwards to the Canaries. 



Stein 1-3 ft. high. Leaves -f in., without stipular glands. Cymes few-flowered, 

 racemose, blowers 1 in. broad. /Sepals ovate or obovate, 3-5-nerved. Capsule as 

 large as a pea, on a slender pedicel. Sepals with glandular margins. 



VAR. Stocksianum, Boiss. PL Orient, i. 865 ; more glaucous, cymes very few- 

 flowered. L. Stocksianum, Boiss. Diagn. Ser. 2, i. 98. Scarcely different from the 

 type. 



3. Zi. strictum, Linn. ; annual, leaves linear linear-oblong or lanceo- 

 late 1 -nerved margins and keel scabrid, petals yellow, styles quite free 

 stigmas capitate, capsule globose shorter than the long acuminate sepals. 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, i. 852. 



VAR. corymbulosum, Planch, in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot., vii. 476 ; corymbs lax- 

 flowered, pedicels longer than the calyx. L. corymbulosum, Reiclib.; Boiss. Fl. Orient. 

 i. 852. 



The PUNJAB HILLS, &c., extending to Peshawur and Marri, Jacquemont, &c. 

 WESTERN TIBET, alt. 10,000 ft., Falconer, &c. DISTRIB. From Soongaria to N. Africa 

 and Italy. 



A slender annual, perhaps at times biennial, usually corymbosely branched above, 

 glabrous or sparingly pubescent. Leaves | I in., acuminate, without stipular glands. 

 Flowers |-f in. diam., shortly pedicelled, in corymbose cymes. /Sepals with very long 

 rigid green points, about equalling the pedicels, margins glandular. Capsule ^ in. 

 diam., globose Cultivated in Afghanistan for oil and fodder, and not for flax (Griffith, 

 It. Notes, 313). 



4. Zi. mysorense, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 1507 ; annual, stem corymbosely 

 branched above, leaves oblong or elliptic-oblong narrowed at the base 

 obtuse or acute 3-nerved, petals yellow small but exceeding the calyx, styles 

 connate below stigma capitate, capsule about equalling the ovate acute 

 sepals. W. & A. Prodr. i. 134; Thwaites Enum. 25 ; Benth. in Bot. Reg. 

 under tab. 1326 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Flor. 16. L. humile, Heyne mss. 

 L. trinervium, Herb. Hohenhack, not of Roth. 



Exposed hills of the WESTERN PENINSULA, from the Concan, Kandalla and the Deccan 

 to the Nilghiris. WESTERN HIMALAYA, Garwhal, alt., 3-5000 ft., Jacquemont, Royle, 

 &c. CEYLON, alt. 4-6000 ft., Thwaites. 



A small slender glabrous herb, usually much corymbosely branched above. Leaves 

 ^-f in., variable in breadth and somewhat in form, without stipular glands. Flowers 

 | in. diam , in panicled corymbs, the branches of which elongate as unilateral cymes in 

 fruit. Sepals with white eglandular margins and short points. Filaments connate 

 below, dilated above. Capsule | in. diam., globose. 



2. REINWARDTIA, Dumort. 



Undershrubs. Leaves alternate, quite entire or crenate-serrate ; stipules 

 minute, subulate, caducous. Flowers yellow, in axillary and terminal 

 cymose fascicles, rarely solitary. /Sepals 5, quite entire, lanceolate, acuminate. 

 Petals 5, contorted, fugacious, much longer than the sepals. /Stamens 5, hy- 



