Helinus.'] RHAMNACEAE. 225 



Disk villous, the lobes rounded; leaves elliptic-ovate, gradually 

 acuminate, rounded at base ; entire or slightly crenate-serrate ; 

 inflorescence densely whitish-pubescent ; mericarps small, '4 in. broad, 



tf in. high 1. microcarpa. 



Disk glabrous, the lobes stellately horned ; leaves ovate, abruptly 

 acuminate, subcordate at base, crenate-serrate ; inflorescence merely 

 puberulous ; mericarps larger, '5-'6 in, broad, '4-'5 in. high 



2. leptostacliya. 



1. GOUANIA MICROCARPA, DC. ; F. B. I. i. 643 ; W. & A. 167. 



W. Ghats, ill all Districts from S. Canara and Mysore 



southwards, up to about 3,000 ft. 



A large climbing shrub. Wt. Ic. t. 974 does not agree 



with either this or the next. 



GOUANIA LEPTOSTACHYA, DC. ; F. B. I. i. 643 ; W. & A. 

 166. G. tiliaefolia, Roxb. Cor. PL i. t, 98. 



Forests of the N. Circars (see Boxb. W. & A., etc.). 



A large climbing shrub. Yern. Tel. Penki tiga. 



8. Helinus, E. Meyer. 



Unarmed shrubs, climbing by means of tendrils ; branches 

 slender, angular. Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire ; stipules 

 small, deciduous. Flowers small, umbellate, on long slender 

 axillary peduncles. Calyx-tube broadly obconic ; lobes 5, superior. 

 Petals 5, inserted on the margin of the disk, cucullate. Disk 

 epigynous, filling the calyx-tube, 5-angled. Stamens 5, as long 

 as the petals. Ovary inferior, 3-celled ; style short, 3-cleft ; 

 stigmas small, recurved ; ovules solitary. Fruit obovoid-globose, 

 3-celled, tardily separating into 3 crustaceous cocci attached to a 

 central axis, the cocci dehiscent interiorly. Seeds plano-convex, 

 shining ; testa leathery, shining ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons 

 large, flat, obtuse ; radicle very short. 



HELINUS LANCEOLATUS, Brand. ; F. B. I, i. 644. 



E. Ghats, hilly country of Ganjam (Barber), Godavari 



(Beddome). 



A slender climber with ovate-lanceolate entire leaves, l-2'5 in. 



long, and flowers in long-stalked umbels. 



Noltia africana, Harv. & Sond. is a Cape shrub which nas been 

 introduced into and has more or less run wild in the Nilgiris, 



