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1. HUGONIA, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 413. 

 Species 11, tropical Africa. Asia, Australia. 



H. Mystax, Linn. : Wight 111. t. 32. Vein. KaM Bira, Tel. 



A scrambling shrub, branches spreading, set with numerous short stiff 

 yellow tniueutose branchlets, leaf- 

 less below, bearing in the axils of 

 the lowest leaves a pair of woody, 

 reflexed, circinate tomentose spines 

 (modified peduncles, occasionally 

 bearing flowers >, above them tufts 

 of leaves and axillary flowers. 

 Leaves alternate, stipules subulate. 

 Fl. yellow. 1 in. across, sepals 5, 

 unequal, imbricate, petals 5, con- 

 torted. Stamens 10, filaments 

 connate at base. Ovary 5-celled, 

 styles .") distinct. Drupe red or 

 yellow, .', in. long, endocarp bony, 

 grooved, see Is J '■'<. 



Western Peninsula, from the Kon- 

 kan on the west, the Northern Circars 

 mi the east side southwards. Fl. May 

 i Ictober. i !eylon. 



Reinwardtia trigyna, Planchon, com- 

 linDi in northern india and the Penin- 

 sula Shan hills, Upper Burma, is a 

 small shrub, leaves elliptic-lanceolal 

 entire or nearly so. with lar;_'e bright 

 yellow flowers, sepals and petals 5, 

 ins 10, styles' 3, sometimes I or "■. 

 remarkable on account of the greal 

 variation in the relative length of 

 styles ami stamens. Not specifically 



distinct i» /.'. telrayyna, Plane! Sikkim. Khasi hills, Bebar, Chota Nagpore, Penin- 

 sula. Leaves larger, dentate, styles 3—5, generally I. 



Ixonanthes khasiana, Honk. til.. Khasi bills, is a small tree with elliptic-lanceolate 

 membranous leaves, 3 U in. Fl. \ in. long, in dense fld. cymes on slender peduncles, 

 Bhorter than leaves. 



HuL'onin Mvstax. Linn. 



•_>. ERYTHROXYLON, Linn. : PI. Brit. Ind. i. 411. 



Shrubs or small trees, glabrous, leaves alternate, unite entire, stipules intra- 

 petiolar. Fl. bisexual, pentamerous, petals with a scale, generally bifid, al 



the top of tl lav, stamens 10, filaments united into a short tube. Ovary 



3-celled. styles 3, of ten connate below. Drupe l-seeded, generally supported 

 by the persistent calyx and stamina! tub,'. Species 90, tropical, mostly 

 American. E. Coca, Lam., tbe leaves of which are extensively used as a 

 powerful stimulant in South America, and which yield the valuable ai 

 thetic Cocaine, mighl be grown on tin- Nilgiris and elsewhere. 



A. Western species. 



1. E. monogynum, Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 88. Syn. E. indicum, Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv. t. si; Sethia indica, DC; Wight 111. t. 48. Vera. Deraddru, Tel., 

 Kan. : Si mlichan. Tarn. 



A shrub or small tree. Beartwood very bard, dark-brown. Leaves cum 

 1 -2 in. long, dull, not shining, glaucous-brown beneath when dry. stipules 

 triangular, long, acuminate. Fl. axillary, generally in fascicles of 1-4. style 



