112 FLORA OF MADE AS. [Leptonychia. 



LEPTONYCHIA MOACURROIDES, Bedd. Fl. t. 114 ; F. B. I. i. 379. 

 A small tree with lanceolate-caudate glabrous leaves and 

 cymes shorter than the petioles ; capsule tubercled. 

 W. Ghats from the Carcoor Ghat in Wynaad, through Coim- 

 batore, Tinnevelly, and Travancore, up to 3,000 ft. 



12. Buettneria, Linn. 



Herbs, trees or shrubs, often climbing and frequently prickly. 

 Leaves often glabrous. Flowers minute, in much-branched axillary 

 or terminal cymes. Sepals 5, connate below. Petals 5, claws 

 concave, limb with a long strap-shaped 2-fid appendage. Stamens 

 10, connate below, bearing 5 stamens alternating with 5 stami- 

 nodes. Ovary sessile, with 5 2-ovuled cells ; style entire or 5-fid. 

 Capsule globose, spiny, with 5 1-seeded cells and 5 septicidally 

 deciduous valves. Seeds axile, exalbuminous ; cotyledons folded 

 round the superior radicle. 



BUETTNERIA HERBACEA, Roxb. Cor. PI. i. t. 29 ; F. B. I. i. 376 ; 

 W. & A. 65 ; Wt. Ic. t. 488. 



A large unarmed herb with glabrous ovate acuminate dentate 



leaves and small flowers in short cymes followed by thinly 



bristly fruit. 



N. Circars, Deccan and Carnatic, in forest undergrowth and 



shady places. 



13. Melhania, Forsk. 



Herbs, shrubs or undershrubs, with softly tomentose indumentum. 

 Leaves simple, linear-oblong ovate or cordate, crenate or serrate. 

 Flowers yellow, on 1-few-flowered axillary peduncles ; bracteoles 

 narrow or cordate, often longer than the calyx. Calyx 5 -partite. 

 Petals 5, withering round the growing capsule. Stamens 10, of 

 which 5 are sterile, connate below into a short cup ; staminodes 

 ligulate, alternating with the perfect stamens. Ovary sessile, 

 5-celled ; ovules 1-many in each cell ; style short, rarely long, 

 divided into 5 subulate spreading branches. Capsule loculicidally 

 dehiscent. Seeds albuminous ; cotyledons plicate. 



Leaves velvety above ; bracteoles lanceolate or ovate ; shrubs : 

 Cymes equal to the petiole \ leaves oblong ; bracteoles lanceolate 



1. cannabina. 



