712 BENGAL PLANTS. 
nutlets. Seeds erect or oblique; testa membranous; albumen 
fleshy, copious or scanty, or 0; embryo straight or curved ; radicle 
superior. 
Leaves all alternate :— 
Styles terminal on the entire or only faintly lobed ovary ; fruit a 
drupe, often dry, so that the included pyrenes simulate nutlets :— 
Styles twice 2-partite ; drupe i roeeiN one 4—1-seeded stone ; trees 
or shrubs ; sc entectianny i in fru rdia. 
Styles simple only once 2- eae rarely (Coldenia) two more OF 
less distinct, sgl styles ; drupe including two 2-seeded or four 
1-seeded pyrenes ; calyx not or scarcely enlarging in fruit :— ; 
Styles ioe. conical at the apex or with a horizontal ring 
below or at the stigmas: 
Styles short, shortly ‘Qlobed ; pyrenes two, eee sr 
usually more or less seanden 
Styles elongated, dilated at apex; lorie above the nee 
Styles elongated, not dilated or annular at the apex 
a a imple ; stigma capitate; pyrenes four, 1- soled ee 
hru 
ee: more or = 2-partite :— 
Styles 2-fid at the fem pyrenes two, 2-seeded, or four, 
1-seeded ; oe ees or shrub 
Styles more or less caine. distinct at base and ‘i ‘epee e 
united but readily separable in the middle; pyrenes four, — 
l-seeded, much resembling nutlets; prostrate her 
oldenia- a 
Styles rising from between the lobes of the 4-lobed ovary; fruit of 4 — 
rarely by suppression 3-1, indehiscent, — nutlets, 1, ane to ® | 
carpophore ; anthers ovate-obtuse, not e 
othriosperm 
Sear of attachment of glochidiate nutlets to the conical carpophore 
extending to the top of the nutlet; flowers all aren or en the 
e 
ee ee ee eee ee ees 
lets, closely adnate by their aie inner wie 
the subterminal style ; fruiting calyx enlarge 
cone, lanceolate, somewhat exse 
