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LINACEJE. 
1. HUGONIA, Linn. 
Sepals 5, imbricated, persistent, joined at the very base. Petals 
obovate, nnguiculate, deciduous, contorted in bud. Stamens 10, the 
filaments unequal, joined in a cup at the base round the ovary. Ovary 
5-celled ; 2 collateral ovules in a cell ; styles 5, stigmatose at the apex. 
Fruit a fleshy drupe, enclosing 5 triquetrous bony cells. — Woody 
climbers, with curious opposite spirally curved woody tendrils and 
flowers in panicled corymbs. Distkib. Species 11 ; 2 tropical Asian, 
the rest tropical African. 
Leaves toothed, glabrous, except a tuft of hairs in the axil of 
veins beneath 1 . H. serrata. 
Leaves subentire, silky all over 2. H. tomentosa. 
1. H. serr&ta, Lam. ; DC. Prod. i. 522. A woody climber, with 
branchlets and sepals densely clothed with bright brown silky hairs. 
Leaves short-petioled, obovate-oblong, cuneate at the base, 3-4 in. 
long, obtuse or acute, glabrous, except tufts of hairs in the axils of the 
main veins beneath ; stipules lanceolate, deciduous. Corymbs closely 
many-flowered, mixed with small oblong-spathulate bracts. Curved 
tendrils mainly at the base of tufts of leaves of the year. Sepals £ 
inch long. Petals bright yellow, f inch broad. Drupe the size of a 
large pea, brown, pulpy. 
Mauritius, in forests of the Pouce, Moka, Nouvelle Decouverte, etc. Also Bourbon. 
Liane a Crochet. 
2. H. tomentosa, Cav. ; DC. Prod. i. 522. General habit, tendrils, 
inflorescence and flower-structure just as in H. serrata. Leaves 4-6 
inches long, broader, obtuse or cuspidate, entire or obscurely crenulate, 
persistently clothed all over below and thinly at first above with brown 
silky pubescence. Sepals very silky, lanceolate, inch long. Drupe 
the size of a cherry. 
Mauritius, in woods of Nouvelle Decouverte. Endemic. 
2. ERYTHRYOXYLON, Linn. 
Sepals 5, minute, lanceolate, persistent. Petals 5, hypogynous, 
deciduous, with a scale on the face. Stamens 10, united in a cup 
round the ovary ; filaments filiform ; anthers minute, roundish. Ovary 
3-celled ; styles 3, distinct. Fruit a drupe, 1-celled by abortion, 
with a single seed in a tough thin endocarp. — Glabrous shrubs with 
entire alternate leaves, persistent brown acute stipules and small 
whitish flowers, solitary or fascicled from their axils. Distbib. Species 
50, all tropical, mostly American. 
Leaves small ; flowers solitary, on filiform pedicels . . 1. E. hypericifolium. 
Leaves large ; flowers fascicled on stout crowded 
pedicels 2. E. laurifolium. 
1. E. hypericifolium, Lam. ; DC. Prod. i. 573. A very-much- 
branched shrub 10-15 feet high, glabrous in all its parts, with slender 
flexuose nodulose twigs. Leaves obovate, short-petioled, moderately 
