panicles, flowers aciinomorphic, 4-merous, 8 mm. di.im. ; Fruit a small capsule, 8 mm. 

 (Hort.), bee and butterfly-pollinated ; seeds small widi wing-extension. 



Strychnos Nux-vomica, common evergreen tree of S. India, &c., leaves 

 glossy, flowers greenish-white, in cymose clusters : corolla tubular, 8 mm. ; fruit a 

 large orange berry (1-2 in. diam.) with 8-9 massive seeds (like grey buttons), 15 mm. 

 diam., with solid endosperm. 



Fagraea obovata, a small tree, often epiphytic (as on Teak), with clasping roots : 

 Flowers large, fragrant, with tube i-i^iu. long. Berry glossy-green to black, i-iA in. 



Boraginaceae (8,5/1550), a large order, mainly herbaceous, leaves spirally 

 arranged, flowers typically pentamerous and actinomorphic ; gynoecium of 2 carpels, 

 each 2 ovules ; style gynobasic and fruit separating as 4 dry mericarps (cocci) ; cf. 

 Anchusa, Symphytum, Myosolis (Hort.) ; a wider range in : — 



Cordia Myxa, deciduous tree of shady ravines in Sub-Himalya, &c., largely 

 cult.; Flowers, small, white, 10 mm., in clustered cymes; styles 2, each 2-fid, not 

 gynobasic; Fruit a drupe, |-i in., glossy-yellow, subglobose, turning black, with 

 rugose 'stone' in sweet viscid translucent pulp; taken by birds and monkeys : Seeds 

 I or more, sclerocarp splitting off ' valves ' on germination. 



Ehretia laevis, common in deciduous forest ; flowers in unilateral C3mes, 

 white, 5 mm. ; style 2-fid, not gynobasic; Fruit a small orange-red drupe, 5 mm. with 

 3-4 pyrenae. 



Bignoniaceae (100/500) essentially tropical tree and liana-forms, leaves 

 commonly opposite, flowers handsome, more or less zygomorphic, stamens reduced 

 to 4 (2) in correlation ; gynoecium of 2 median carpels, the ovary 2-Iocular with a 

 large number of ovules on compound placentas, appearing (in transv. sect.) as 2-lobed 

 in each locukis. Fruit typically a dehiscent capsule with characteristic winged seeds ; 

 two valves separate from the median placental tracts (dissepiment). 



Stereospermutn chelonoid.es, a large tree of moister deciduous forest ; 

 I'^lowers fragrant, yellow marked with red, \ in. long. Capsule a slender pod, 

 10-30 in., and \ in. diam., seeds wedge-shaped, sunk in ' notches' of a corky cylin- 

 drical dissepiment (like a jointed snake), with wings at each end (i in. over all) 

 shaped to the curve of the dissepiment. 



S. suaveolens, in drier districts and with Sal. Fruit 1-2 ft., | in. diam., dark 

 grey and speckled ; valves hard and thick, seeds flat and winged. 



S. xylocarpum, deciduous tree of Central Provinces ; capsule to 3 ft., over i in. 

 diam. ; woody and tubercled, seeds i in., winged \ in. at each end. 



Cf. also: — Dolichandro7ie falcata, with white, nearly regular, trumpet-shaped 

 flowers, i-i| in. lube; Spathodca campaiiiilala, W. African Tulip-Tree, with con- 

 spicuous zygomorphic red-and-yellow flowers; Millingfonia hortcnsis, Burma, cult., 

 a large tree with fragrant white flowers ; corolla-tube 3-4 in., slender ; 4 stamens 

 at base of tube ; fruit capsule 12 in., seeds with 3 transparent wing-ridges. Oroxybim 

 indicuvi, a small deciduous tree, leaves bipinnate, 3-5 ft.; flowers purplish, corolla 

 2-3 in., trumpet-shaped : capsule flat, 1-3 ft. and 3 in. broad, flattened in the plane 

 of the dissepiment ; seeds with a papery netted wing, 3 in. broad, flat with a flat green 

 central embr30^ 



Acanthaceae (173/2050) based on Acanthus of S. Europe, with markedly 

 zygomorphic flowers, 4 stamens, and dehiscent fruits ; seeds on a special type of 

 placenta. Mainly shrub and herbaceous types, extended to a large no. of tropical 

 shrubs and herbaceous plants, the most important: — 



Strobilanthes in many species (180, Indian 21), as gregarious shrubs of under- 

 wood, or on open hill-sides as dense scrub : more or less monocarpic and flowering 

 periodically, colouring the landscape violet-blue ; dying down after fruiting and allow- 

 ing regeneration of forest-trees. 6". auriculatus, 4-6 ft., with Sal, flowering every 6 

 years : stem quadrangular, flowers blue, in bracteate spikes 3-5 in. long ; others in 

 hill-counirv, with representative species. 



Verbenaeeae (67/760) founded on European Verbena, and extended to a wide 



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