126 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Linum. 



its oil-seeds. It has large blue flowers, and is occasionally found 

 run wild. 



2. Hugonia, Linn. 



Scandent or straggling herbs. Leaves stipulate. Flowers 

 yellow, the lowest 2 peduncles of each branch often turned into 

 spiral hooks. Sepals 5. Petals 5, contorted, fugacious. Stamens 

 10, connate into a short tube at the base, and there marked by 

 5 glandular swellings. Ovary 5-celled with 2 collateral ovules in 

 each cell ; styles 5, filiform. Drupe globose, fleshy. Seeds 

 compressed, albuminous ; cotyledons flat. 



HUGONIA MYSTAX, Linn. ; F. B. I. i. 418 ; W. & A. 72 ; Wt. 111. i. 

 79, t. 32. 



A rambling or climbing shrub with tomentose twigs, elliptic- 



obovate glabrous leaves, and large yellow flowers, usually 



many together at the ends of the branches. 



In almost all Districts in dry forests. 



Bark yellowish, corky. Wood hard and close-grained. Vern. 



Tarn. Motira kanni. 



3. Reinwardtia, Dumort. 



Undershrubs. Leaves membranous, usually serrate ; stipules 

 minute caducous. Flowers large, yellow or white, in short 

 axillary racemes or in terminal corymbs ; pedicels bracteate. 

 Sepals 5. Petals 5, contorted, fugacious. Stamens 5, connate at 

 the base, alternating with setiform staminodes. Glands 2-3, 

 adnate to the staminal tube. Ovary of 3-5 2-locellate cells ; 

 ovule 1 in each locellus ; styles 3-4 (-7), filiform. Capsule 

 globose, 6 8-valved. Seeds reniform ; albumen thin. 



REINWARDTIA TRIGYNA, Planch. ; F. B. I. i. 412. E. tetragyna, 

 Planch. ; F. B. I. i. 412. Linum trigynum, Roxb. ; W. & A. 134. 

 A small shrub with elliptic-lanceolate acute glabrous leaves 

 and handsome yellow flowers, with many sexual forms 

 combining styles and stamens of varying number and length. 

 W. Ghat forests of S. Canara and Mysore. 



$, Erythroxylon, Linn. 



Shrubs or trees, usually glabrous. Leaves alternate, entire, 

 often nearly distichous; stipules intrapetiolar, on the arrested 

 shoots imbricating. Floioers axillary, small, whitish, solitary or 

 fascicled. Sepals 5-6. Petals 5-6, with an erect double ligule 



