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254. Linum vusitTatisstmum Linn.; F. I. it. 110; F. B. I. i. 410; 
. D. Gs 885; 
Generally cultivated. 
A cold-weather crop; flowers blue. In India cultivated 
only as an oil-seed. Hind. Chikna, alsi, tisi; Beng. 
Tisi, masina; Uriya Pesu. 
122, Reinwardtia Dumort. 
Undershrubs; Jeaves alternate, entire, or crenate-serrate ; 
stipules subulate, small, fugacious. Flowers yellow, showy, in 
axillary and terminal cymose clusters or solitary. Sepals 5, 
acuminate. Petals 5, contorted, fugacious. Stamens 5, hypogy- 
Nous, connate at the base, alternating with as many subulate 
staminodes ; disk-glands 2-8. Ovary 3-5-locular; locules 2-locel- 
late ; styles 3-4, filiform, free or connate below, stigmas su 
capitate ; ovules in each locellus solitary.- Fruit a globose capsule 
splitting into 6-8 cocci. Seeds reniform, solitary in each coceus. 
55. ReINWARDTIA TRIGYNA Planch.; F. B. I. i. 412; EB. D. BR. 71. 
Linum trigynum F, I. ii. 110. 
ehar, Rajmahal Hills; Chota Nagpur, common. 
A tufted subgregarious undershrub, with large yellow 
flowers, 
Order XXVII. MALPIGHIACEZ. 
3 ovules solitary in each carpel or loculus, orthotropo 
long funicle and raphe ventral. Fruit usually of one or more 
