670 BENGAL PLANTS. [Cerbera. 
white or red, in terminal cymes. Sepals connate in a 5-partite 
calyx, not glandular within ; lobes obtuse or acute, long. Petals 
5, connate in a funnel-shaped corolla ; tube short, cylindric ; throat 
ribbed within or with adnate, linear, pubescent. scales; lobes 
broad, overlapping to the left. Stamens 5, included; anthers 
lanceolate, apiculate; cells rounded atthe base. Disk 0. arpels 
2, distinct; style filiform, top dilated ; stigma 2-lobed; ovules 4 in 
each carpel, on ne e faces: of thickened placentas. Fruit of 1, 
c 
thick, fibrous and woody. Seeds broad, compressed, peltately 
affixed; albumen 0; ssa oa thin ; pee very short 
1207. Cerpera OpouiuaM Gaertn. ; F. I. i. 692; F. B. L ii. 638. 
Sundribuns ; stathainil — 
A large shrub o: or small tree. | Beng. Délcir. 
546. Plumeria Linn. 
Erect trees with very thick branches; leaves elongated, alter- 
nate ; nerves geuimnn ee spreading from a strong mi 
Flowers large, in terminal, 2-3-chotomous cymes; bracts many, 
broad, deciduous. Aaoals connate in a small 5-fid calyx; tube not 
glandular within ; lobes wide, obtuse. Petals. 5, connate in a 
salver -shap ed corolla; throat naked ; Ree Sbhtden ad to the 
left, or occasionally to the right. Stamens 5, adnate 
tube; anthers obtuse ; cells sie My the base. Sie: a or 
cag onl test Carpels 2, distinct; ovules many-seriate in 
ach; style short; stigma 2-lobed. Fruit of 2 linear-oblong or 
tipo falls Seeds oblong or lanceolate, plano-convex, 
umen thin, fleshy; cotyledons oblong or ovate- 
te 
1208. Puumeria acurirotta Poir. ; F. B, I. iii.641 ; E. D. P. 989. 
P. acuminata ¥F. I. ii. 20. a 
Planted ev Ste in gardens and near temples. 
small tree. ind, Gilachin, gobur-champ; Beng. 
Gorur- hap Uriya Katchampa ; Santal. Champa 
pungar. 
547. Rauwolfia Linn. 
Small shrubs; leaves 3-4-nately whorled, rarely sibipaite: 
nerves slender, remotely arched; axils glandular. Flowers in 
umbelliform cymes, on peduncles alternate with the terminal 
