XXIX. LiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 411 



ciliated axile margins of the carpels of L. liwmik, Mill., and the crenate petals (Eoxb.) 

 and smooth leaf-margins of L. mitatissimum, and is thus intermediate between these 

 supposed species, fioth's specimens of trinervium (from Herb. Eottler) are from a garden • 

 they are very imperfect, but clearly Z. usiioiissMBMm. ' ' 



2. Xi. pereune, Linn. ; perennial, stems many from the roots, leaves all 

 lanceolate or lower oblong obtuse and upper.Mnear acute, petals blue entire, 

 styles quite free, stigmas subcapitate, capsule much longer than the white- 

 margined sepals. . . 

 _Westekh Tibet, alt. 9-13,000 ft., Hb.' Boyle, Munro, &o. ; Lahhl, JaesM&.-^ 

 DiSTEiB. Westwards to fhe Canaries^ ' ' , , 



(SteiB 1-3 ft. high. Leaves |-| in., without" stipularglands.! Oygies few-flowered, 

 racemose. Mowers 1 in. broad. Sepals o-^ate or obovate, 3-5-nerved. Capsule as 

 large as a pea, on a slender pedicel. 8epals with glandulai- margins. 



Var. Stockmanum, Boiss. 'Fl. Orient, i. 865 ; more glaucous, cymes very few- 

 flowered. L. Stooksiannm, Boiss. Diagn. Ser. 2, i. 98.— Scarcely different from the 

 type. 



3. Zi. strictum, Linn. ; annual, leaves linear linear-oblong or lanceo- 

 late 1-nerved margins and, keel scabrid, petals yellow, styles quite free 

 stigmas capitate, capsule globose shorter than the long acuminate sepals. 

 Bdm. Fl. Orient, i. 852. 



Vae. corymbulosum, Planch, in Hook. Lond. Joum. Bot., vii. 476 ; corymbs lax- 

 flowered, pedicels longer than the calyx. L. corymbulosum, Beiehb.; Boiss. Fl Orient.. 

 i- 852. ■ , ,.. ;,. ;^ , , . J 



The Pdhjab hills,, &c., extending to Peshawur and Marri, Jacquemont, &o. 

 Webteen Tibet, alt. 10,000 ft.. Falconer,- ^x^.—Disi-bib. From Soongaria to N. Africa 

 and Italy. , . - 



A slender annual, perhaps at times biennial, usually corymbosely branched above, 

 glabrous or sparingly pubescent. Leaves ^-J in., acuminate, without, slipular glands. 

 Flowers |-| in difem., shortly pedicelled, in corymbose cymes; Sepals with, very long 

 rigid green points, about- equalling the pedicels, margins glandular. Capsule \ in. 

 diam., globose — Cultivated in Afighanistan for oil and fodder, and not for flax {OrMth, 

 It: Notes, 313). 



4. Ii. mysorense, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 1507 ; annual, stem corymbosely* 

 branched above, leaves oblong or eUiptic-oblong narrowed at the base 

 obtuse or acute 3-nerved, petals yellow small but exceeding the calyx, styles 

 connate below stigma capitate, capsule about equalling the ovate acute 

 sepals. W. (Ss A. Prodr. i. 134; Tkwaites Envim. 25 ; Benth. in Bot. Reg. 

 under tab. 1326 ; Balz. & Gibs. Bcmib. Mar. 16, L, humile, Eeyne mss. 

 L. trinervium, fferb. Hohenhack, not of Both. 



Exposed hills of the Western Peninsula, from the Concan, Kandalla and the Deccan 

 to the Nilghiris. Western Himalava, Garwhal, alt., 3-5000 ft., Jacquemont, Boyle, 

 &o. Ceylon, alt. 4^6000 ft., TAicaiies. 



A small slender glabrous herb, usually much corymbosely braiiohed above. Leaves 

 \-% in., variable in breadth and somewhat in form, without stipular glands. Flowers 

 J in. diam., in panicled corymbs, the branches of which elongate as unilateral cymes in 

 fniit. Sepals with white eglandular margins and short points. Filaments connate 

 below, dilated above. Oaps-ule ^ in. diam., globose. 



2. REIN-WARDTXA, Dumort. 



. _Undershrubs. iea»es alternate, quite entire or crenate-serrate ; stipules 

 minute, subulate, caducous. Mowers yellow, in axillary and terminal 

 cymose fascicles, rarely solitary. Sepals .5, quite entire, lanceolate, acuminate. 

 Petals 5, contorted, fugacious, much longer than the sepals. Stamens 5, hy- 



