Part 1, 1907] LINACKAR 87 



4. REINWARDTIA Dumort. Conim. Bot. 19. 1822. 



Ma, rolinum Reichenb. Handb. 306. 1837. 

 Kittelocharis Alef. Rot. Zeit. 21 : 282. 1863. 



Shrubs with branching stems. Leaves alternate, with minute, narrow, caducous stipules ; 

 blades thickish, entire or obscurely crenate, narrowed into margined petioles. Flowers 

 lx>rne in cluster-like cymes, distinctly pedicelled. Sepals 5, somewhat fleshy, smooth and 

 glabrous, entire, persistent. Petals 5, yellow, several times longer than the sepals, unap- 

 pendaged. Stamens 5 ; filaments more or less dilated near the base, alternating with slen- 

 der staminodia which are borne in the sinuses of the tube. Gynoecium 3-5-carpellary ; 

 styles 3-5, greatly elongate, nearly distinct or somewhat united near the base ; stigmas 

 reniform, relatively large. Capsule firm or woody, globose to oblong-conic, the carpels 

 smooth. Seeds reniform. 



Type species, Linum trigynum Roxb. 



1. Reinwardtia indica Dumort. Comm. Bot. 19. 1822. 



Linum trigynum Roxb. As. Res. 4 : 357. 1799. Not L. trigynum L. 1753. 



Linum repens I). Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 217. 1825. 



Mdcrolinum trigynum Reichenb. Hatidb. 306. 1S37. 



Reinwardtia trigyna Planch. Lond. Jour. Bot. 7 : 522. 1848. 



Reinwardtia repens Planch. Lond. Jour. Bot. 7: 523. 1848. • 



Kittelocharis trigyna Alef. Bot. Zeit. 21 : 282. 1863. 



A glabrous shrub usually less than 1 in. tall, the lower branches speading, of prostrate 

 and rooting, the twigs tender. Leaf-blades oblong or elliptic, varying to obovate or oblong- 

 ovate, 2-8 cm. long, usually mucronate at the apex, mostly entire ; the petioles of the 

 larger leaves about 1 cm. long ; flowers usually few or several in a cluster, showy ; pedicels 

 becoming 1-2 cm. long ; sepals broadly lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 10-12 mm. long, 

 acute or short-acuminate, somewhat ribbed in age ; petals yellow, 2.5-3 em. long, the 

 upper portion spreading; staminodia about 1 mm. long; gynoecium glabrous; capsules 

 globular, 5.5-6.5 mm. in diameter, surpassed by the sepals. 



Type locality : East India. 



Distribution: Martinique and Guadeloupe. Naturalized from southeastern Asia. 



Illustrations : Hook. Rxot. Bot. />/. 17 ; Bot. Mag. />. 1100. 



