202 LXXV. EUSTACES. (J. D. Hooker.) [Gaillonia. 



THE PUNJAB ; dry hills near Attock, Falconer, Stewart. DISTRIB. Nubia, Arabia, 

 Persia. 



A small shrub, /with slender, erect, terete, strict, dichotomously forked branches, 

 the lower white. Leaves in distant pairs, -1 in., black when dry, scaberulous. 

 margins revolute. Fruit about in. long, of 2 narrowly oblong puberulous cocci 

 surmounted by an ere^t scarious calyx-limb ; segments of limb free or connate, 

 elliptic, acute, -white, veined, much longer than the cocci. The Indian specimens are 

 very imperfect. 



2. Gr. hymenostephana, Jaub. $ Spach HI. PL Or. i. 146, t. 79; 



hoary and scaberulous, leaves linear-oblong with obsolete stipules, floral connate 

 with 2-lobed stipules, flowers terminal solitary and fascicled, fruit with a large 

 orbicular horizontal 5-lobed wing. Soiss. Fl. Or. iii. 15. 



PUNJAB, Fleming. WTJZURISTAN, alt. 3500 ft., Stewart. DISTRIB. Arabia, Belu- 

 chistan, Afghanistan. 



A very small shrub, " most foetid when fresh," Stewart, with opposite divaricating 

 strict slender branches. Leaves -^ in., margin revolute. Fruit of 2 small hispid 

 cocci ; the calyx-limb | ^ in. diam., pubescent or glabrate, membranous, reticulately 

 veined. 



TRIBE XVI. GALIE2E. 

 89. HUB! A, Linn. 



Scabrid hispid or prickly erect diffuse or climbing herbs; stems square, 

 slender. Leaves 4-8 in a whorl, rarely opposite and stipulate. Flow&rs small 

 or minute, in axillary and terminal cymes, pedicel jointed with the ovary. 

 Calyx-tube ovoid or globose ; limb 0. Corolla rotate or shortly bell- or funnel- 

 shaped ; lobes 4-5, valvate. Stamens 4-5, inserted on the corolla-tube, fila- 

 ments short ; anthers globose or oblong. Ovary 2-celled ; style 2-fid or styles 

 '2, stigma capitate ; ovules 1 erect in each cell, attached to the septum. Fruit 

 small, didymous, fleshy, or globose by the suppression of a carpel. Seeds sub- 

 erect, adhering to the pericarp, testa membranous; cotyledons broad thin, 

 radicle slender inferior. DISTRIB. Species about 30, chiefly temperate. 



1. H. cordifolia, Linn.-, DC. Prodr. iv. 588; scandent, leaves 4 in a 

 whorl petioled ovate-cordate acute, nerves 3-7 from the base very strong. 

 Wall Cat. 6209 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 442 ; Dalz. 8f Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 121 ; Wt. III. 

 t. 128, bis. i. 1. R. Munjista, Roxb. Hort. Seng. 10 ; Fl. Ind. i. 374 ; DC. I. c. ; 

 Wt. Ic. t. 187. R. Mungisth, Desv. Journ. Sot. 1814, 207. R. javana, DC. 

 I. c. R. secunda, Moon Cat. 10. R. alata, Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey 

 fy Wall. i. 384; Cat. 6208; DC. I.e. R. purpurea, Dene, in Jacq. Voy. Sot. 

 84, t. 92. R. scandens, Zoll # Morr. ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. ii. 338. R. chi- 

 nensis, Hegel fy Maack in Reg. Fl. Ussur. 76, f. 8, t. 1. R. mitis, Miq. in Ann. 

 Mus. Lugd. Sat. iii. 112. 



Throughout the hilly districts of India, from the N.W. HIMALAYA eastwards, 

 ascending to 8000 ft., and southwards to CEYLON and MALACCA. DISTRIB. N.E. Asia 

 from Dahuria to Japan and Java, Tropical Africa. 



Climbing ; root perennial ; branches stout, smooth, or more often with the 

 nerves beneath (usually) retrorsely scabrid. Leaves smooth or scabrid ; lower 

 2-4 in.; petiole 1-3 in., 2 often longer and with larger blades, upper leaves some- 

 times acute at the base, shorter petioled. Cymes panicled, terminal ; branches tri- 

 chotomous, spreading, with opposite sessile leafy cordate bracts. Flowers minute, 

 5- rarely 4-merous. Corolla-lobes lanceolate, tips incurved. Anthers globose. Fruit 

 - in. diam., didymous or globose. A very variable plant. The Khasian speci- 

 mens have usually 3-nerved leaves, not impressed above ; in Western Peninsula the 

 nerves are 5-7, and deeply impressed. Eastern Himalayan specimens of Griffith's 



