. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. HHijonia] XXII. 107 1. HUGONIA, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 413. Species 11, tropical Africa, Asia, Australia. H. Mystax, Linn.; Wight III. t. 32. Yern, Kaki Blm^ Tel. A scrambling siirnb, branches spreadini^;, set with nnnieroiis short stiff yellow tomentose branchlets, leaf- less below, bearing in the axils of the lowest leaves a pair of woody, reflexed, eirciuate tomentose spines (modified peduncles, occasionally bearing flowers'!, above
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. HHijonia] XXII. 107 1. HUGONIA, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 413. Species 11, tropical Africa, Asia, Australia. H. Mystax, Linn.; Wight III. t. 32. Yern, Kaki Blm^ Tel. A scrambling siirnb, branches spreadini^;, set with nnnieroiis short stiff yellow tomentose branchlets, leaf- less below, bearing in the axils of the lowest leaves a pair of woody, reflexed, eirciuate tomentose spines (modified peduncles, occasionally bearing flowers'!, above them tufts of leaves and axillary flowers. Leaves alternate, stipules subulate. Fl. yellow, 1 in. across, sepals 5, unequal, imbricate, petals 5, con- torted. Stamens 10, filaments connate at base. Ovary 5-celled, styles 5 distinct. Drape red or yellow, \ in. lomi;, endocarp bony, grooved, seeds 2-3. T^'estprii Peninsula, irom tlip Ivon- kan on tho ^\est, tlif^ Northern Circars on the ea^t sid<» bOutli\\ ards. Fl. Ma\ -Octohpr. Ceylon. Reinwardtia trigyna, Planchon, com- mon in noithem India and the Pen in- sula Shan hills, Upper Burma, is a small shruh, leaves elliptic-lanceolate, entire or nearly so, with large bright yellow flowers, =;epals and petals 5. stamens 10, stvles S, sometimes 4 or 5, remarkable on account of the great -^ ^^ ^ • ^r + t- i variation in the relative length of i^—nugonm .\lystax, i^inn. ^. styles and stamens. Not speeiiicallv distinct is i?. tpfragyna, Planchon, Sikkim, Khasi hills, Behar, Chota Xagpoie, Penin- sula. Leaves larger, dentate, styles 8-5, generally 4. Ixonanthes kliasiana, Hook, fib, Khasi hills, is a small tree with elliptic-lanceolate membranons leaves, 3-4^^ in. PL \ in. long. In dense fld. cymes on slender peduncle'^, shorter than 2. ERYTHROXYLON, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 414. Shrubs or small trees, glabrous, leaves alternate, quite entire, sti]mles iutra- petiolar. Fl. bisexual, pentamerous, petals witli a sca
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