672 BENGAL. PLANTS. [Vinea. 
549. Vinea Linn. 
Erect or procumbent herbs or shrubs ; leaves opposite. Flowers 
glandular within; lobes narrow. Petals 5, connate in a salver- 
shaped corolla ; pbs cylindric, usually with reflexed hairs below 
the stamens; throat constricted, thickened or hirsute; lobes 
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glands. barbie 2, distinct ; ovules 6 or more, 2-seriate in each 
carpel; style filiform, apex thick; stigma annulate, viscid, some- 
a with a reflexed membrane, tip minute, ape ap : 
2 slender, erect or spreading follicles. Seeds subcylin 
cate at both ends; hilum lat eral ; albumen featiy aad 
ng. 
1212. Vinca ROSEA Binns F. B, I. in. 640; E. D. v. 188. 
Vinka rosea F. I. ii. 
Planted venysthois in gardens and near temples, also 
often subspontaneous 
An erect herb, flows variously rosy or white; native 
of West Indies. Uriya Ains kati. 
550. Alstonia R. Br. 
Trees or erect shrubs; leaves 3-4-nately whorled, rarely oppo- 
site. Flowers in subterminal, corymbose cymes. Sepals connate 
in a short, 5-lobed or 5-partite calyx; lobes short, usually obtuse. 
Petals 5, connate in a salver-shaped corolla; tube cylindric; 
sometimes to the right, sometimes to the left. Stamens adnate 
near apex of tube, included; anthers subacute. Disk annular, 
truncate or lobed, or 0. Carpels 2, distinct; ovules numerous, 
many-seriate in each carpel ; style filiform, ovoid or oblong at top; 
stigma minute or 2-toothed. Fruit o ear, slender follicles. 
Seeds oblong or linear, flattened, peltately attached, often ciliate ; 
albumen scanty ; cotyledons oblong, flattened. 
1218. Ausronia scHonaRis R. Br.; F. B. I. iii. 642; E. D- 
A. 870. 
W. Bengal; N. B 
A tall tree. Beng. Cee Hind. Selina ; Uriya 
and Santal. Cha 
