702 ' BENGAL PLANTS. [Mitreola. 
591. Mitreola Linn. 
Herbs ; leaves ee tine membranous or small. Flowers 
small, white, in 2-3-chotomous, terminal or axillary, peduncled 
avines: often tlnbeced on 7. eyme-branches. Sepals connate in 
5-partite calyx; lobes lanceolate. Pctals 5, connate in an 
urceolate corolla; lobes small, valvate. Stamens 5, included; 
filaments short; anthers ovate, cordate at base; cells parallel. 
peltate agmee styles 2, short, connate under one small pilose — 
stigma, at length divergent. Fruit an obovoid, laterally com: — 
pressed, Ben ate or 2-horned capsule, dehiscing by separation — 
from above downwards of the carpels from the septum on each . 
side. Seeds very many, minute, globose or elongated; albumeD — 
i embryo linear. : 
273. MITREOLA OLDENLANDIOIDES Wall.; F. B. I. iv. 79. 
Behar; Chota Nagpur. 
small, erect annual. 
592. Mitrasacme Labill. 
Small herbs ; leaves opposite; stipules forming a minute sheath. 
Flowers small, white, terminal or it peer es clustered, or in 
irregular umbels. Sepals connate in a campanulate, 4-fid calyx. _ 
Petals 4, connate in an urceolate corolla ; sisiis valvate or redupli- : 
cate, sometimes spreading. Stamens 4, adnate to corolla-tube; 
filaments rather short; anthers ovate, base cordate; connective 
often produced; cells parallel. Carpels connate in a 2-locular 
ovary; ovules in each cell many, on peltate placentas; styles 2, 
connate, separating from below upwards, usually finally divergent; 
stigma capitate or 2-lobed. Fruit a subglobose capsule, laterally _ 
subcompressed, top truncate or almost 2-horned, dehiscing by — 
separation from above downwards of the carpels from the septum — 
on each side. Seeds many, minute, subglobose; testa smooth, 
reticulated; albumen fleshy ; embryo straight. 
1274, MirrasAcME ALSINOIDEs R. Br.; F. ‘B. I. iv. 80. 
Nagpur; W. Bengal 
A small, weak annual, 
593. Buddleia Linn. 
Trees, shrubs, or herbs; leaves opposite, entire or cr renatey 
united by a stipular line. Flowers densely cymose; yee 
