Helinus.] AUPELIDE^. 169= 



7. HELINUS, E. Meyer ; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 644. 



IJDarmed scandent cirrhose shrubs with slender angular branches. 

 Leaves alternate, entire. ^^owe?^5 umbellate, on long slender ped- 

 uncles. Calyx superior, tube broadly obconic. Petals 5, inserted 

 upon the margin of the disk, hooded. Stamens 5, equalling the 

 petals. Dish epigynous, filling the calyx-tube. Ovary 3-ceTled j 

 style short, 3-cleft ; stigmas recurved. Fruit inferior, obovoid- 

 giobosp, 3-celied, not winged. Cells 1-seeded, coriaceous, tardily 

 dehiscing. — Species 4, one Indian, two in Trop. Africa and one in 

 Madagascar. 



H. lanceolatus. Brand. For. Fl. 574; F.B. I. i, 644, Gouania lanceolata,. 

 Wall; Boyle III. 168. 



A slender twining shrub, glabrous, or the young parts and flowers; 

 pubescent, ^rawc^kts ending in short simple tendrils. Leaves 1-lf in. 

 long, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, rounded or subcordate at the base, 

 glabrous or eanescent beneath. Flowers in umbels, pale yellow, about 

 ^ in. across, each umbel subtended by a bract ; peduncles |-1 in. long. 

 Margin of disk free. Fruit ^ to ^ in. in diam. 



Dehra Dun, Siwalik range, N. Oudh. Distrib. : Punjab, Trop. Hima- 

 laya from Kashmir to Kumaon, up to 4,000 ft., Parasnath. In flower and 

 fruit during the greater part of the year. 



XXXVII.— AMPELIDEiE. 



Shbubs or perennial herbs, usually climbing by means of tendrils. 

 Leaves alternate, stipulate, simple or digitately compound. JPed^ 

 uncles often transformed into simple or compound tendrils. Flowers 

 regular, rarely 1-sexual. Calyx oup-shaped ; limb entire or ob- 

 scurely 4-5-lobe5. Petals 4 or 5, distinct or cohering, valvate^ 

 usually caducous. Stamens 4i or 5, inserted opposite the petals, free 

 or connate into a tube adnate to the petals. Disk large, cupular or 

 annular (adnate to the petals in Leea). Ovary free or somewhat 

 adnate to the disk, 2-celled with 2 collateral ovules (Vitis), or 6-celled 

 with 1 ovule in each cell (Leea). Fruit a berry. Fmhryo small, at 

 the base of cartilaginous albumen. — Species over 400, inhabiting the 

 tropical and temperate regions of the whole world. 



Woody or herbaceous climbers ; stamens distinct, 



free, ovary 2-celled • • • • • 1. ViTls. 



Erect shrubs or large herbs, stamens connate'into 

 a tube and adnate to the petals, ovary 3-6- 

 celled 2. Leea. 



