410 - XXIX. LINE*. (J. D. Hooker.) 



Petals as inaiiy, hypogynous or slightly perigynous, usually fugacious, often 

 contorted. Stamens 4-5 with as many interposed stkminodes, or_8-10, 

 rarely more, filaments united at the base into a hypogynous or slightly 

 perigynous ring, filiforni ; anthers versatile, 2-celled. Glands 5, entire or 

 a-lobed, usually adnate to the staminal ring, or obsolete. Omry entire, 

 3-5-celled ;. styles 3-5, free or more or less connate, stigmas terminal ; 

 ovules 1 or 2, inserted in the inner angle of the cells, anatropous, pendulous. 

 •FruU usually splitting into 3-5 cocci, rarely a drupe. Seeds 1-2 in each 

 cell, testa sometimes winged, albumen fleshy or ; embryo nearly as long 

 as the sfeed, straight, rarely incurved, cotyledons broad, radicle superior. — 

 DiSTEiB. Air regions;, genera 14, species about 135. 



Teibe I. ZitiJineeB. Petals contorted, fugacious. Perfect stamens as 

 many as the petals. Capsule septicidal. — Herbs rarely shrubs. 



Calyx glabrous or pubescent. Styles 5. . Capsule 5-_celled . . . 1 . Linhm. 

 Calyx glabrous. Styles 3-4. Capsule 3-4- celled . . . . 2. Eeinwaedtia." 



Calyx setose. Styles 3; 'Capsule 1-celled, l-seeded ..... 3. Anjsadenia. '• 



Teibe II. Hugronieae, Petals contorted, fugacious. Perfect stamens 

 2-3 times as many as the petals. FruU a drupe.— Usually scandent shrubs; 

 with hooked ^pody tendrils formed of arrested branchlets. 



Sepals subacute, tomentose, ebracteolate 4. Huhonia. 



Sepals obtuse, bracteolatg 5. Eouoheeia. 



Tribe III. Ersrthroxylete. Petals imbricate, rarely contorted, with a 

 scale on the inner face, at length deciduous. Perfect stamens twice as many 

 as the petals. Fruit a drupe. — Shrubs or trees. 

 Pedicels axillary. Petals with a double scale .... ... 6. Ekythegxtlon. 



Teibe IV. Xzonantlieae. Petals contorted, persistent. Stamens '2-3-t 

 times as many as the petals. Capsule septicidal. 

 Stamens perigynous 7. Ixonasthes. ' ^ 



1. IiINVia, Linn. 



Herbs, rarely shrubby below. Leaves narrow, quite entire ; stipules 0, 

 or replaced by glands. Sepals 5, quite entire. Petals 5, contorted, fugacious. 

 Stamens 5, often alternating vrith minute staminodes. Glands opposite the 

 petals, adnate to the staminal ring. Ovary 5-celled, cells 2-locellate, 2-ovuled ; 

 styles usually free, stigmas various ; ovules 10, 1 in each locellus, Capsule 

 5-celled, septicidally splitting into 5 simple 2-seeded or 10 i-seeded cocci. 

 /Seecfe compressed, albumen sparing; embryo straight. — Species abput 80, 

 most of them Mediterranean, 



1. Xi. usitatissimum, Linn. ; annual, stem cylindric erect simple 

 below, leaves narrow sub-3-nerved, petals blue, styles quite free, stigmas 

 linear-clavate, capsule scarcely exceeding the narrowly white-margined, 

 acuminate sepals. Wall. Gat. 1504; Don Prodr. 217 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 110; 

 Gibs. & Dalz. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 16; DO. Prodr. 217 ; W. & A. Prodr. 134. 

 L. trinervium. Roth Nov. Sp. 187. 



Cultivated chiefly for oil throughout Ihdia, up to 6000 ft., in the Himalaya.^-DisraiB. 

 Westwards to the Atlantic. 



Stems 2-4 ft., often solitary, corymbosely branched above. Leaves linear or lanceo- 

 late, withoat stipular glands. Flowers 1 in. diam., in broad cymes. Sepah. ovate, 

 acuminate, 3-nerved, eglandular, margins ciliate or not.— The ln.dian plant has the 



