IV. BENGAL PLANTS. 
A.—PHANEROGAMIA. 
III.—COROLLIFLORE. 
Sepals often connate in a usually persistent ee. more or less 
adnate to the ovary or free; free sepals or calyx-lobes as many as 
petals, or, by union of adjacent lobes, fewer than petals. Petals. 
1 
almost always connate in a corolla, the elements of w which are 
te and twice as many as petals, very 
rarely (Styracee and Ebenacee) indefinite; filaments usually 
more or less adnate ie eae tube, rarely free within the corolla, 
very rarely adnate t arpels as many as petals, or often 
fewer, sometimes so tan always more or less ¢ 
carpels themselves be free the styles are united at base or — it 
the styles be free the nsec! pesade are | connate ; ovary in a 2- o: 
¢arpellary pistil, usually as many cells as the constituent 
earpels, less often with twee as many deve ant of 
accessory dissepiments, in either case i T or more-ovuled 
placentas on the inner angle or eigen on the dissopaase 
some distance from the inner angle, sometim one ce 
and then with as many 1- or more-ovuled Saat placentas as the 
constituent carpels or with a basal central placenta; ovary in a 
mono-carpellary pistil usually oblique, with the generally 1- ae 
placenta excentric. 
Order LXXXIII. APOCYNACEA. 
Shrubs, twining or erect, rarely trees. — Leaves” opposite. | 
whorled, rarely alternate, entire ; anoles Flowers hermaphro-_ 
di small. Sepals 
tou n teal or siiry ees bracts 
oe 
