850 



subpanicled : peduncles longer than the calyx : calyciue segments 

 ovate or oblong, entire or serrated : flowers largish, yellow : fila- 

 ments bearded with purple hairs. 



Waste places in the Deccan. Banks of rivers and still waters 

 in the Peninsula. Flowering in the cold season. 



GENUS III. LINAEIA, 



Dldynaniia Anslosperniia. Sex: Sysii 



Deriv. From Linum, flax, on account of the similarity in tha 

 leaves. > 



Gen. Chab. Calyx deeply 5-parted : corolla personate ; tuba 

 spurred at the base ; upper lip erect ; palate prominent, some- 

 times closing the throat, sometimes depressed, with the throat 

 pervious : capsules ovoid or globose : cells often nearly equal, 

 dehiscing by a single or many-valved pore : seeds spmetimes 

 ovoid, wingless, angular or wrinkled, sometimes discoid and sur- 

 rounded by a membranaceous wing. — ^Herbs, rarely undershrubs j 

 lower leaves opposite or verticilled ; upper ones alternate, 



(1) L. RAMOSISSIMA. (Wall.) 



Ident. Wall. Cat. No. 3911.— Dec. prod. X. p. 270. 

 JEngrav. Wall. Pd. As. Rar. II. t. 153. 



Spec. Char. Glabrous : branches elongated, very slender .- 

 leaves alternate, petioled, smooth, trianguiiarrhastate, 'lower ones 

 sometimes 5-7-lobed: pedicels longer than the petiole: flowers 

 yellow, with a short curved spur : capsule glabrous. 



Patna. Delhi. Deccan. Flowering in the rainy season. 



(2) L. iNCANA. ( Wall.) 



Ident. Wall. PI. As. Rar. H. p. 43.— Dec. prod. X. p. 270. 



Spec. Char. Villous : stems prostrate, woody at the base : 

 leaves ovate or cordate-orbiculate, rarely hastate, lobed or toothed : 

 pedicels filiform, rigid, longer than the petiole : calycine segments 

 lanceolate, very aciite, membranaceous at the margin ; spur of the 

 corolla much shorter than the tube. 



Growing on walls in the Deccan. 



