704 BENGAL PLANTS. [Strychnos. 
pressed. Flowers white or yellowish, in terminal or lateral cymes; 
bracts small. Sepals connate in a small 5-lobed or 4-lobed calyx. 
Petals 5 or 4, connate in a short or long tube; lobes valvate. 
Stamens 5 or 4, adnate to corolla-tube ; filaments short; anthers 
ovate, dorsifixed ; cells parallel. Carpels connate in a completely, 
e 
simple, long or short or almost obsolete; stigma capitate, or small 
terminal, or somewhat 2-lobed. Fruit a globose or oblong berry, 
with usually a crustaceous pericarp, many- or few- (sometimes 2- 
or 1-) seeded. Seeds globose, oblong or discoid; albumen horny; 
embryo small. 
Climber with tendrils ; leaves 3-nerved, oblong, caudate ; cymes terminal, 
short- = many-flowered Wallichiana. 
Erect trees 
Leaves ovale, 5-nerved; cymes terminal, short-peduncled, many- 
flowered ; fruit 1°5 in. across, many-seeded Nux ~vomicd. 
Leaves elliptic, 3-nerved; cymes axillary, almost sessile; fruit -3—6 in. 
ideabe 1-2-seeded potatorum. 
1277, Strycunos WaLuicarsana Benth.; F. B. I. iv. 90. 
Chittagong. 
tendril-bearing climber. 
1278. shit ssh Nux-vomica Linn; F, I. i. 575; F. B. 1. 
v.90; E. D. s. 2943. 
Chota Nagpur; Orissa. 
A tree, 30-40 feet high. Vernac. Kuchila. 
1279. StrycHnos rorarorum Linn. f.; F. 1.i.576; F. B. Liv. 903 — 
E. D. s. 2960. 
Western Behar ; Chota Nagpur ; Orissa. 
A tree, 40~50 feet high. Beng. and Hind. Nirmali; 
Santal. Kuehila; Uriya Kotaki. 
Order LXXXVI. GENTIANACER, 
He Leaves ange rarely alternate, entire; very rarely 
ee 8-foliolate. Flowers regular or occasionally irregular 
h odite, or peas rarely by abortion polygamous, oa 
imbricate in bud. Petals connate in a funnel-shaped or rot 
