Ubinwaeptia.] LIN em. X%% 



than in Europe, and consequently has developed a branching habit ©f 

 growth, which would greatly lessen the value of its fibre. According to 

 DeCandolle this species is indigenous in certain localities situated between 

 the Persian Gulf, the Caspian and Black Seas. He traces the history of 

 this plant and that of a perennial species named L. angustifolium, which 

 la.tter appears to have been cultivated in very ancient times and to have 

 been replaced by L. usitatissimum within the last 4 or 5,000 years. 



2. L. mysorense. Heyne ex Wall. Cat. 1507 ; W, ^ A. Prod. 134; Royle 

 m. 82; B.^G. Bomb. Fl. 16 ; F. B. I. i, 411 ; Watt B. D. 

 A small slender glabrous annual. Stem corymbosely branched above. 

 Leaves |-| in. long, elliptic-oblong, obtuse or acute, 3-nerved, without 

 stipular glands. Flowers 5 in. across, in panicled corymbs made up of 

 unilateral cymes. Sepals with white glandular margins and short points. 

 Petals yellow, exceeding the calyx. Filaments connate below, dilated 

 above, \8tyles connate below ; stigma capitate. Capsule globose, equal- 

 ling the calyx. 

 3undelkhand. Distbib : Mt. Abu in Eajputana, W. Himalaya, 3-6,000 

 ft., and southward to the Deccan and Ceylon. 



2. REINWABDTIA, Dumort ; Fl. Brit. Ind. i, 411. 



Undershrubs. Leaves alternate, entire or crenate-serrate ; 

 stijpules minute, subulate, caducous. Flowers yellow, in axillary 

 or terminal cymose fascicles, rai*ely solitary. Sepals 5, entire, 

 lanceolate, acuminate. Petals 5, contorted, fugacious, mnch 

 longer than the sepals. Stamens 5, hypogynous, connate below, 

 alternating with as many interposed subulate staminodes. Glands 

 2-3, adnate to the staminal ring. Ovary 3-4-celled, cells 2-loGellate ; 

 styles 3-4, rarely 5 ; stigmas subcapitate ; ovules 1 in each locellus ; 

 Capsule globose, splitting into 6-8 cocci. Seeds reniform. 



B. indica, Duvn. Comm, Bot. 19. E. trigyna ^ E. tetragyna, Pla/neh. ; 



F. B. I. i, 412 ; Watt E ,T>. B. trigyna, Planch.; D. ^ G. Bomb. Fl. 16, 



Linum trigynum., Boxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 110 -, W. ^ A. Prod. 134. Vein. 



Basant (Dehra Dun). 



A tufted glabrous undershrub, 2-3 . ft. high, with erect and prostrate 

 rooting rather stout soft branches. Leaves 1-3 in. long, elliptic-obovate, 

 narrowed into slender petioles, usually rounded and mucronate at the tip, 

 or acute or acuminate, entire or with a minutely crenate-serrate margin. 

 Flowers often 1 in. across, but very variable. Styles 3 or 4, free or connate 

 at the base. Capsule shorter than the sepals. 

 'Dehra Dun, Siwalik range, Eohilkhand. Disteib.: Himalaya, from the 

 Punjab to Sikkim, up to 7,000 ft. ; and southwards to the Bombay Ghats 

 and the Nilgiri Hills. The flowers are dimorphic in regard to the relative 

 length of the stamens and styles, B. tetragyna is described as having 

 much larger lanceolate leaves. The 3-styled form {B. trigyna) is the one 

 usually met with within the area of this flora, but the- number b£ the 

 styles is not a constant character. 



