28 17. LiNEiE. {Hugonia. 



Order 17. LINEiE. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, entire. Inflorescence 

 various. Flowers regular, bisexual. Sepals 5, free or connate below, 

 imbricate. Petals 5, usually caducuous, often contorted. Stamens 4-5 

 with as many staminodes^ or 8-10, filaments united at the base into 

 a ring. Glands 5, entire or 2-lobed, usually adnate to the staminal 

 ring or obsolete. Ovary entire 3-5-celled ; styles 3-5, free or more 

 or less connate, stigmas terminal. Ovules 1-2 in each cell, inserted 

 in the inner angle, pendulous. Fruit usually splitting into 3-5- 

 cocci, rarely a drupe. Seeds 1-2 in each cell, testa sometimes winged 

 albumen fleshy or 0. 



HUGONIA, L. 



Climbing, tomentose shrubs, with woody tendrils. Leaves alter- 

 nate, serrate, stipulate. Inflorescence of yellow flowers, lower pe- 

 duncles converted into spiral hooks. Sepals 5. Petals 5. Stamens 10 

 with glandular swellings on the basal ring between the filaments. 

 Ovary S-celled ; styles 5, filiform ; ovules 2, collateral in each cell. 

 Drupe globose. Seeds compressed, albuminous. 



H. Mystax, Linn. Fl. Br. I. 1. 413 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 17- 

 From the Konkan southwards near the sea-coast atVengurla, not observed 

 in North Kanara. Fl. Fr. Aug. 



Order 18. MALPIGHIACEiE. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire. Calyx often with sessile 

 glands. Petals 5, usually clawed. Stamens 10. Ovary 3-celled. 

 Cells each I seeded. Fruit of 1 or more winged samaras. 



Styles 1-2. Calycine gland 1, large, adnate to pedicil ... Hiptage. 

 Styles 3. Calyciiie glands Aspidopterys. 



HIPTAGE, C-Ertn. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite. Stipules 0. Flowers white, 

 fifth petal coloured. Calyx 5-partite ; glands large, adnate to pedicil. 

 Fruit of 1-3, 2-3-winged samaras. 



H. Madablota, Gsortn. Fruct. II. 169. t. 116; Fl. Br. 1.1.418; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 33; Brandis For. Fl. 44. Haladwail, M. 

 Bokhi, utimukia, Vern. Throughout the presidency near water-courses 

 and moist places. Fl. Fr. Jan. Feb. 



ASPIDOPTERYS, A. Juss. 



Climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, eglandular. Flowers small, 

 yellow or white. Calyx short, eglandular. Petals 5, not clawed. 

 Ovary 3-lobed; sides winged. Fruit of 1-3 samaras. 



Ovary hairy. Samara oblong. ,.. .„ A. Eoxburghiana. 



Ovary glabrate. Samaras suljorbicular, very membranous. A. canarensis. 

 White tomentose. Samaras orbicular, not membranous... A. cordata. 



