720 BENGAL PLANTS. [Trichodesma. 
terminal racemes by gradual reduction of the floral leaves. Sepals 
connate below in a deeply 5-lobed 7 lobes triangular, lanceo- 
late, eo Petals 5, in campanulate-cylindric 
naked ; lobes feito’ to the left, each with a basal 
or eal "ik or gland. Stamens 5, adnate to corolla-tube ; fila- 
ments short ; anthers elongate, lanceolate, connivent in a cone, the 
connective more or less dorsally hirsute, the tips excurrent, at 
length twisted. Carpels connate in a 4-lobed ovary; lobes dis- 
tinct, but slightly ag a ovules in each lobe solitary, sub- 
horizontal; placentas on inner angles of each lobe; style terminal, 
filiform; stigma small. Fruit ellipsoid, 4-ridged, composed of 4 
ovoid-oblong nutlets, with shining backs and scabrid, more or less 
margined inner faces, which are at first wholly adnate to the 
carpophore below the style, at length separating. Seed sub- 
orbicular or obovate, subhorizontal or pendulous ; re 
plano-convex. 
Calyx-lobes in fruit cordate or hastate at base indicum 
Calyx-lobes in fruit ovate or rounded at base zeylanicum 
1316. TricHopEsMA INpIcuM R. Br.; F. B. I. iv. 153; E. D. 
orago indica F. I. i. 458. B. sa. F. I. 
i. 
In all the western and northern province 
An erect or diffuse annual. JB. eee is described 
from a stray a weather seedling in Central Bengal 
(where the species very rarely ere with the acci- 
dental ican of all the leav ing alternate. 
Hind. and Beng. Chota-kulpha ;. ane Hetmudia. 
1317. TRICHODESMA ZEYLANICUM R. Br.; F. B. I. iv. 154; E. D. 
*. . Borago soutonsed F I. i. 458. 
Chota Nagpur ; Orissa. 
As the preceding This species is very rare in our area, 
only crossing its south-western borders. Hind. Hete- 
nuria. 
Order XC. CONYOLVYULACEZ. 
Herbs or shrubs, usually twining, rarely erect, very rarely trees ; 
3ometimes parasitic. Leaves alternate or in parasitic species 0; 
stipules 0, Flowers regular, hermaphrodite, cymose, rarely soli- 
