676 BENGAL PLANTS. (Parsonsia. 
nivent above and adnate to the stigma; cells spurred and empty 
below. Disk of 5 lobes or scales. Carpels connate in a 2-celled 
ovary ; ovules in each cell numerous; style filiform, apex dilated, 
truncate; stigma columnar or long-conic. Fruit a cylindric cap- 
sule, the a a at i A separating from the two placentas. 
Seeds linear or oblong, tip narrow and penicillate; albumen 
scanty ; saa linear-oblong, 
Lyae PARSONSIA SPIRALIS Wall. ; # B. I. iii. 650. 
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uns. 
An evergreen twiner. 
556. Nerium Linn. 
Erect, glabrous shrubs; leaves 3—-4-nately whorled, rarely oppo- 
site, narrow, coriaceous ; nerves plepsel, Geter siidiabeas Ba 
i a 5- 
epal: 
elandular within; lobes narrow. pus . ssa in a final 
shaped corolla; tube cylindric, widening into a campanulate 
throat, with 5 broad, toothed scales; lobes overlapping to the 
right. Stamens adnate to top of tube, ae oer ts short ; 
anthers sagittate, connivent round and adna e stigma ; tips 
filiform ; cells long-spurred, beset with sae ae appendages 
rigid. Disk 0, Carpels 2, distinct, each many-ovuled ; : a 
filiform, or thickened above the middle; stigma 
reflexed, lobed membrane surmounted by 5 tubercles, tip sau a 
lobose. Fruit of 2 elongated, cylindric, straight, hard, adpressed 
follicles. Seeds oblong, villous, with terminal, caducous coma; 
albumen fleshy; cotyledons flat, rather thick. 
1222. Nerium oporum Soland.; F. I. ii. 2; F. B. I. iii. 655; 
. D.N. 80. 
W. Bengal ; Chota Nagpur; Behar ; oie and as 
if wild: in other provinces cultivated o ' 
A large, erect shrub. Hind. Kanér; Boag Karabi ; 
Santal. Rajbaka. 
557. Strophanthus DC. 
Shrubs, often climbing, or small trees ; leaves opposite. Floats 
usually large, in terminal cymes. Sepals connate in a 5- 2 
calyx ; tube glandular within; lobes oblong or lanceolate. Petals 
5, connate in a funnel-shaped corolla; tube short, widening to 
rge campanulate throat, with 10 free or connate scales ; lobes 
